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- 1. An English polymath, most famous for his foundational contributions to physics and mathematics, specifically his formulation of the three laws of motion and the law of universal gravitation, as well as his co-invention of calculus.
- 3. Caltech physicist, known for winning the Nobel Prize in Physics alongside his wife, Amy Farrah Fowler, for their groundbreaking discovery in super-asymmetry.
- 4. A naturalist and biologist who established the theory of evolution by natural selection, detailed in his seminal book On the Origin of Species.
- 7. A British chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose critical data led to the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA.
- 10. Renowned for his work on black holes and theoretical cosmology, helping to make complex physics accessible to the general public through books like A Brief History of Time.
- 12. An American theoretical physicist who served as the director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II.
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- 2. A Scottish physician and microbiologist best known for discovering the world's first broadly effective antibiotic substance, which he named penicillin.
- 5. A pioneering German astronomer and mathematician, best known for formulating the Three Laws of Planetary Motion
- 6. A Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist, known for her pioneering research on radioactivity—a term she coined—and for discovering the elements polonium and radium.
- 7. An American physicist, who with his work in theoretical physics has been credited with having pioneered the field of quantum computing and introducing the concept of nanotechnology.
- 8. A German-born theoretical physicist best known for developing the theory of relativity.
- 9. A world-renowned primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist famous for her landmark, decades-long study of chimpanzee social and family life in Tanzania.
- 11. An Austrian–Irish theoretical physicist who developed fundamental results in quantum theory