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1. 01Who developed the theory of evolution by natural selection after his voyage aboard HMS Beagle?
2. 02Who discovered penicillin in 1928 after noticing that a stray mold was killing bacteria in his lab?
3. 03Which physicist wrote the bestselling book A Brief History of Time?
4. 04According to a famous story, a falling apple helped inspire whose thinking about gravity?
5. 05Jane Goodall became world famous for her decades of research on which animals?
6. 06Who turned a telescope to the night sky, championed the sun-centered model, and was put on trial by the Inquisition?
7. 07Marie Curie won Nobel Prizes in which two different sciences?
8. 08Albert Einstein's 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded mainly for which discovery?
9. 09For her notes on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, Ada Lovelace is often called the world's first what?
10. 10Gregor Mendel worked out the basic rules of heredity by patiently breeding what in his monastery garden?
11. 11Alan Turing helped the Allies in World War II by cracking messages from which German cipher machine?
12. 12In the war of currents against Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla championed which kind of electricity?
13. 13Rosalind Franklin's famous Photo 51 provided crucial evidence about the structure of what?
14. 14Katherine Johnson calculated spaceflight trajectories, including for John Glenn's orbit, at which agency?
15. 15Legend says Archimedes shouted "Eureka!" in his bath after realizing what?
16. 16James Watson and Francis Crick published their double helix model of DNA in which year?
17. 17Marie Curie discovered which element and named it in honor of her homeland, Poland?
18. 18Which scientist used Tycho Brahe's precise observations to formulate the laws of planetary motion?

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