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Famous scientists and their discoveries

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Sir Isaac Newton
Gravity.
Werner Heisenberg
Uncertainty principle.
Albert Einstein
General relativity.
James D. Watson & Francis Crick
Double helix shape of DNA.
Alexander Graham Bell
Telephone.
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Sigmund Freud
The unconscious.
Charles Darwin
Evolution.
The Wright Brothers
Human flight.
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
Microorganisms.
Robert Brown
The nucleus of cells.
Johannes Kepler
Elliptical orbits of planets.
Dmitry Mendeleyev
The periodic table.
Niels Bohr
Atoms.
Nicolaus Copernicus
Heliocentric cosmology.
Galileo Galilei
The law of falling bodies.
James Chadwick
Neutrons.
Murray Gell-Mann
Quarks.
John Wesley Hyatt
Celluloid plastic.
Wilhelm Roentgen
X-rays.
Louis Pasteur
Germs.
Alexander Fleming
Penicillin and antibiotics.
Edward Jenner
Vaccines.
Carl Linneaus
Taxonomies and binomial nomenclature.

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