Which Scientist Discovered That? Which Scientist Discovered That? Can you match the famous scientists with their groundbreaking discoveries? Find out! 1 / 10 Who invented the lightning rod and demonstrated that lightning is a form of electricity? Thomas Edison Nikola Tesla Michael Faraday Benjamin Franklin 2 / 10 Who developed the theory of special relativity? Max Planck Albert Einstein Niels Bohr Isaac Newton 3 / 10 Who discovered that the Milky Way is just one galaxy among many? Edwin Hubble Carl Sagan Galileo Galilei Stephen Hawking 4 / 10 Who discovered the principle of buoyancy? Archimedes Pythagoras Euclid Aristotle 5 / 10 Who discovered the theory of evolution by natural selection? Alfred Russel Wallace Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Charles Darwin Gregor Mendel 6 / 10 Who discovered gravity? Albert Einstein Galileo Galilei Isaac Newton Johannes Kepler 7 / 10 Who is credited with the discovery of radioactivity? Wilhelm Röntgen Marie Curie Henri Becquerel Ernest Rutherford 8 / 10 Who discovered the electron? J.J. Thomson Ernest Rutherford Niels Bohr James Chadwick 9 / 10 Who is credited with inventing the alternating current (AC) system? Thomas Edison Guglielmo Marconi Nikola Tesla James Watt 10 / 10 Who discovered the germ theory of disease? Robert Koch Louis Pasteur Joseph Lister Alexander Fleming Challenge your friends: Facebook Retry quiz Related Quizzes Anatomy 101: Do You Know Your Body? Guess the Organ’s Function! Can You Match the Invention to the Inventor? Are You a Space Expert?