Great Names in Science
Find the men and women who have contributed to the advancement of science.
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Game creation: 2020-04-11
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102
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Panoramix
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History
Science
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Great Names
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Game creation: 2020-04-11
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Over the centuries, many scientists have improved our perception of the world. Here they are.
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He is the founder of geography and the first to correctly evaluate the circumference of the Earth, to within 0.2%.
Eratosthenes | Aristarchus | Mercator | Ptolemy -
Monk who stated the laws of heredity in 1866 after studying 300,000 pea seeds for seven years.
Gregor Mendel | Charles Darwin | Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck | Charles Naudin -
He developed the first true theory of atomic structure and demonstrated the wave-particle complementarity of the atom.
Paul Dirac | Albert Einstein | Erwin Schroeder | Niels Bohr -
A physician and founder of psychoanalysis, he published "The Interpretation of Dreams" in 1900, despite general disapproval.
Carl Jung | Josef Breuer | Sigmund Freud | Ivan Pavlov -
In the 19th century, this German mathematician created set theory, the foundation of modern mathematics.
Carl Friedrich Hindenburg | Leopold Kronecker | George Cantor | Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Top 10 - Earnings
| Earnings | Players |
| 5948 | Miche |
| 3832 | Matrix |
| 3408 | Virginie79 |
| 2428 | Irma |
| 1964 | Savancosinus |
| 1703 | Felix |
| 1636 | Titan |
| 1611 | Yoda |
| 1278 | zumba |
| 1196 | Nickie |
Top 10 - Rating *
| Rating | Players |
| 4.80 | alibaba |
| 4.78 | Titan |
| 4.57 | coucou |
| 3.79 | AtoZ |
| 3.73 | jacquesL |
| 3.19 | Balloney |
| 3.17 | Savancosinus |
| 1.94 | Mulligan18 |
| 1.72 | flash |
| 1.71 | matt44 |
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