| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Law of planetary motion | Kepler |
| Theory of heliocentrism (sun-centered) | Copernicus |
| Part of Renaissance scientific revolution; "father of modern science" | Galileo |
| First man in space | Gagarin |
| First American in space | Shepard |
| First American in orbit | Glenn |
| First American woman in space | Ride |
| First on the moon | Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins (in landing craft) – Apollo 11 mission |
| Developed classification of animals (binomial nomenclature) | Linnaeus |
| Discovered the chemical structure of DNA | Crick and Watson |
| Discovered electrons in an atom | Thomson |
| Theory of evolution of a species | Darwin |
| First human heart transplant | Barnard (in South Africa) |
| Developed laws of motion, built the reflecting telescope, credited as one of the developers of calculus | Newton |
| Discovered penicillin | Fleming |
| Developed the periodic table of elements | Mendeleyev |
| Discovered protons of an atom | Rutherford |
| Father of psychoanalysis; separated the mind into the id, ego and superego; advocated use of "free association" and wrote "The Interpretation of Dreams" | Freud |
| Discovered radium | Marie and Pierre Curie |
| Theory of relativity | Einstein |
| Developed the polio vaccine | Salk |
| Developed the rabies vaccine and a way to make milk safer to drink | Pasteur |
| Developed smallpox vaccine | Jenner |
| Discovered X-rays | Roentgen |
| Developed the mercury thermometer | Fahrenheit |
| Among his inventions were the lightning rod and bifocals | Franklin |
| Inventor of the cotton gin | Whitney |
| Inventor of the stethoscope | Laennec |
| Inventor of the revolver | Colt |
| Developed telegraph and the code used with it | Morse |
| Father of photography | Daguerre |
| Invented vulcanized rubber | Goodyear |
| Developed an elevator with a brake | Otis |
| Inventor of dynamite | Nobel |
| Inventor of the telephone | Bell |
| Credited with inventing the light bulb and phonograph | Edison |
| Father of wireless radio | Marconi |
| Developed the first functional airplane | Wright Brothers (Orville and Wilbur) |
| Inventor of frozen food | Birdseye |
| Invented the liquid fueled rocket | Goddard |
| Developer of the nuclear reactor | Fermi |
| Developed the "hierarchy of needs" used in psychology | Maslow |
| Used a dog to develop conditioned reflex | Pavlov |
| Believed that all behavior was based on learned response | Skinner |
| Father of analytic psychology; introduced the idea of the "collective unconscious" | Jung |
| Father of geometry | Euclid |
| Most famous mathematician of ancient Greece | Archimedes |
| Considered the world's first computer programmer; developed algorithms for early computers | Lovelace |
| Developed the theorem in geometry that states that in a right triangle the square of the length of the hypotenuse (the side opposite the right angle) is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides | Pythagorus |
| Developed a sequence of numbers with each number being the sum of the previous two numbers | Fibonacci |
| Created the atomic model | Bohr |
