Great scientists

Who really invented the light bulb? (Noted inventor Thomas Edison at the lightbulb's golden jubilee anniversary banquet in his honor, Orange, New Jersey, October 16, 1929. He is exhibiting in his hand a replica of his first successful incandescent lamp which gave 16 candlepower of illumination, in contrast to the latest lamp, a 50,000 watt, 150,000 candlepower lamp © Underwood Archives/Getty Images)

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Who really invented the light bulb?

James Clerk Maxwell: the most important physicist you haven't heard of © SSPL/Getty Images

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James Clerk Maxwell: the most important physicist you probably haven’t heard of

Who really discovered GPS? ©Getty

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Who really discovered GPS?

Who really discovered the Higgs particle? © Getty Images

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Who really discovered the Higgs particle?

Who was the first scientist? © Getty Images

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Who was the first scientist?

Professor Stephen Hawking, British theoretical physicist. Photographed at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge © Eleanor Bentall/Corbis via Getty Images

Quiz Can you solve these deviously difficult Stephen Hawking-inspired questions?

Lise-Meitner-©-Getty

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Lise Meitner: the nuclear pioneer who escaped the Nazis

An Alfred Edward Chalon watercolour of Augusta Ada King-Noel, Countess of Lovelace (nee Ada Byron) circa 1940 © Donaldson Collection/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

Future Technology

How Ada Lovelace’s notes on the Analytical Engine created the first computer program

Monument of great astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus made by Bertel Thorvaldsen in 1822, Warsaw, Poland © Getty Images

Who first claimed planets go round the Sun?

Robert Hooke (Alamy) & Isaac Newton (Getty Images)

Everyday science

Who really discovered the law of gravity?

Flowers are placed alongside the ashes of British scientist Stephen Hawking at the site of interment in the nave of Westminster Abbey © Ben Stansall - WPA Pool /Getty Images

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Stephen Hawking’s final farewell

Who really discovered Halley's Comet? © Getty Images

Who really discovered Halley’s Comet?

Who really discovered Hubble’s Law? © ESA/Hubble

Who really discovered Hubble’s Law?

Science Focus Podcast: Remembering Professor Stephen Hawking © In Pictures Ltd./Corbis via Getty Images

Science Focus Podcast Remembering Professor Stephen Hawking