Here is a list of great scientists: can you guess who they were and what they did? Just click on a name to go to the clue.
  1. Ernst A
  2. Thomas A
  3. André A
  4. Amedeo A
  5. John A
  6. William B
  7. Antoine B
  8. William B
  9. Ludwig B
  10. Henry C
  11. Anders C
  12. Nicholaus C
  13. Giovanni C
  14. Charles C
  15. Leonhard E
  16. Bartolomeo E
  17. Gabriel F
  18. Gabrielle F
  19. Michael F
  20. Alexander F
  21. Robert G
  22. Johann M
  23. Thomas M
  24. Isaac N
  25. Georg O
  26. Theodore S
  27. Ivan P
  28. Erwin S
  29. Gilbert W
  30. Thomas Y

What you find easy they found rather difficult. This was because they were at the frontiers of knowledge. They all discovered and explained wonderful things which many scientists now just take for granted.

Last revised 11 November 2006