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He made the revolutionary discovery that a He is known as the ‘Person of the Century’,
wire carrying electric current can attract or all the touch stones of the era like the
sepal another wire next to it that’s also bomb, the Big Bang, quantum physics and
carrying electric current. The attraction is electronics — all bear his imprint. Theory
magnetic, but no magnets are necessary for of Relativity and the famous equation E =
the effect to be seen. He went to formulate mc2 in the world was introduced by this
Ampere’s Law of electromagnetism and great mathematician and physicist. At
produced the best definition of electric school, his teachers branded him lazy and a

current of his time. defamer. But he showed his extraordinary
skills in his inventions.
a) Louis Pasteur
a) Charles Darwin
b) Andre Marie Ampere
b) Benjamin Franklin
c) Thomas Alva Edison
c) Albert Einstein

6 In ancient time, it was believed that all the planets circled
in orbits around the Earth, but he gave a new idea that the
Earth and other planets revolve around a stationary Sun.
This idea completely contradicted the belief of that time.
All his astronomical observations were undertaken without
the use of telescope. The telescope was invented in 1608
which was 65 years after his death.
a) Charles Darwin b) Louis Pasteur

c) Nicolas Copernicus

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Hippocrates was a great doctor of ancient Greece. His pioneering techniques of health care significantly
improved survival rates, and he has become the father of modern medicine.

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