Prompt 5 of 7
Name a famous scientist
102 accepted answers across 6 rarity tiers.
100 ptsOne in a Krillion1 answer
The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.
- Ibn al-Haytham— The 11th-century polymath who wrote the scientific method centuries before Europe rediscovered it.
85 ptsDeep Cut34 answers
Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.
- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
- Al-Khwarizmi
- Alexander von Humboldt
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
- B.F. Skinner
- Barbara McClintock
- Brian Cox
- C.V. Raman
- Chien-Shiung Wu
- Dorothy Hodgkin
- Emmy Noether— Her theorem underpins modern physics. Einstein called her a genius.
- Georges Lemaitre
- Hedy Lamarr
- Hypatia
- Ibn Sina
- Irene Joliot-Curie
- J.J. Thomson
- Jennifer Doudna
- John von Neumann
- Katalin Kariko
- Lise Meitner
- Michio Kaku
- Norman Borlaug
- Paul Dirac
- Percy Julian
- Pierre Curie
- Robert Koch
- Satyendra Nath Bose
- Sophie Germain
- Stephen Jay Gould
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- Tu Youyou
- Tycho Brahe
- Wolfgang Pauli
60 ptsRare35 answers
Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.
- Alexander Fleming
- Amedeo Avogadro
- Antoine Lavoisier
- Blaise Pascal
- Carl Jung
- Carl Linnaeus
- Charles Babbage
- Dmitri Mendeleev
- Edward Jenner
- Edwin Hubble
- Enrico Fermi
- Ernest Rutherford
- Erwin Schrodinger
- Euclid
- Francis Crick
- Grace Hopper
- Hippocrates
- Ivan Pavlov
- James Clerk Maxwell
- James Watson
- Johannes Kepler
- John Dalton
- Jonas Salk
- Linus Pauling
- Mae Jemison
- Max Planck
- Ptolemy
- Richard Dawkins
- Richard Feynman
- Robert Boyle
- Robert Hooke
- Sigmund Freud
- Srinivasa Ramanujan
- Vera Rubin
- Werner Heisenberg
30 ptsSchooler23 answers
A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.
- Ada Lovelace
- Alan Turing
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Alfred Nobel
- Archimedes
- Aristotle
- Benjamin Franklin
- Bill Nye
- Carl Sagan
- Copernicus
- George Washington Carver
- Gregor Mendel
- Jane Goodall
- Katherine Johnson
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Louis Pasteur
- Michael Faraday
- Niels Bohr
- Nikola Tesla
- Pythagoras
- Rachel Carson
- Sally Ride
- Thomas Edison
15 ptsToo Clever2 answers
An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.
- Neil deGrasse Tyson— The 'I watch science YouTube' answer. Well actually.
- Rosalind Franklin— The 'they robbed her of the Nobel' pick. Correct, and very predictable.
10 ptsPlankton7 answers
The most common answer on the board.
- Albert Einstein
- Charles Darwin
- Galileo Galilei
- Isaac Newton
- Marie Curie
- Robert Oppenheimer
- Stephen Hawking