| A | B |
|---|
| Thomas Edison | light bulb, recorded sound, film |
| Wilhelm I, of Prussia | First Emperor of a united Germany |
| Edward Jenner | Found the cure for smallpox |
| Louis Pasteur | Discovered bacteria that caused disease; discovered heat sterilization |
| Alexander II | Czar of Russia; assassinated by revolutionaries |
| Robert Koch | Discovered the cure for tuberculosis |
| Matthew Perry | US admiral who led a naval expedition to Japan in 1853 |
| Joseph Lister | invented "antiseptics" that killed bacteria |
| Marie and Pierre Curie | First research on radioactivity |
| Antoine Lavoissier | Discovered that fire was a chemical reaction (not 19th c.) |
| Albert Einstein | Said Newton's theories don't work near light speed |
| Archduke Maximilien | Sent by Austria to be Emperor of Mexico; shot |
| Charles Darwin | Theory of the Natural selection |
| Gregor Mendel | Father of Genetics...pea plants |
| Henrik Ibsen | Norwegian Dramatist-Brought never seen realism about families to the stage |
| Gustave Flaubert | French writer with middle class heroes |
| Richard Wagner | German composer of powerful operas |
| Richard Strauss | German composer of the waltz genre "Music of Vienna" |
| Leo Tolstoy | Greatest Russian writer before the Revolution |
| Henrik Ibsen | Norwegian playwright of cringy family problems |
