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41 Great Scientists

Scientists have enormous contribution in the advancement of human civilisation.
Throughout the history of the world many scientists have dedicated their lives for
research and innovation. Some of them even faced a lot of torture for their theories but

they continued their mission and thus we are now in a modern world.
Pictures and brief descriptions of some scientists are given hereunder for you to put

a tick (3) on their correct names.
1
He was arguably, the world’s greatest scientist scientist of
the classical age. He was a mathematician, physicist,
astronomer, engineer, inventor and weapons-designer.

a) Archimedes

b) Benjamin Franklin
c) Louis Pasteur

2 In order to buy books and chemical apparatus, this
prominent inventor of electric bulb began selling
newspapers on the Grand Trunk Railway at the age of 12.
He used to sit in a dark cupboard to think about all his best
ideas and inventions. He patented more than 1,000
inventions including an electric generating system, sound-
recording device, a motion picture projector, etc.
a) Charles Darwin b) Thomas Alva Edison

c) Galileo Galilei

3

He created the long running Mathematical Games column
for scientific American and became the twentieth century’s
greatest popularizer of mathematics.
a) Charles Darwin b) Martin Gardner

c) Euclid

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