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Albert Einstein's IQ

What Was Albert Einstein’s IQ?

The brilliant physicist was actually never tested, but that hasn't stopped some from estimating how he would have scored.

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They’ve Searched the Cosmos

Sir Isaac Newton

How Isaac Newton Changed Our World

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Stephen Hawking

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Annie Jump Cannon

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Benjamin Banneker

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Marie Curie - Mini Biography

Marie Curie's work on radioactivity made her the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. Curie's efforts led to the discovery of polonium and radium and the development of X-rays.

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Creators of our Digital World

Alan Turing

Alan Turing

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Katherine Johnson

Larry Page

Larry Page

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Ada Lovelace

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Inventors

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George Washington Carver

Louis Pasteur

Louis Pasteur

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Patricia Bath

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Percy Julian

Evolutionary Scientists

Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin

Gregor Mendel

Gregor Mendel

Rosalind Franklin

Rosalind Franklin

Mary Leakey

Mary Leakey

Famous Astronauts

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‘Apollo 13': The Real-Life Astronauts Portrayed in the Movie

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Buzz Aldrin

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Ellen Ochoa

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Sally Ride

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Alan Shepard

Alan Shepard

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apollo 11 astronauts

Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s Apollo 11 Quest

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James D. Watson

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Jane Goodall

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22 Famous Scientists You Should Know

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How Jane Goodall Became a Chimp Expert

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James A. Lovell Jr.

antique compass

Did This Newly Found Compass Belong to Copernicus?

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Chien-Shiung Wu

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The Solar Eclipse That Made Albert Einstein a Star

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Marie Curie

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Howard Carter, King Tut's Tomb, and a Deadly Curse

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Daniel Hale Williams

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Mae Jemison

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Albert Einstein’s Role in the Atomic Bomb

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Jean Tatlock: The Woman Oppenheimer Loved

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J. Robert Oppenheimer