| 100% | VOLTA | 5 | Alessandro —, Italian physicist who developed the first electrochemical cell |
| 44% | MARCONI | 7 | Guglielmo —, Italian physicist who developed radiotelegraphy |
| 43% | FERMI | 5 | Enrico ___, Italian physicist who is known for creating the world's first nuclear reactor and has an element named after him |
| 41% | FERMI | 5 | Physicist who conducted the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction |
| 38% | FERMI | 5 | Enrico —, Italian nuclear physicist who headed the group that produced the first controlled nuclear reaction |
| 37% | DAVIDGRAEBER | 12 | Anthropologist who developed the concept of everyday communism in “Debt: The First 5,000 Years” |
| 35% | JONASSALK | 9 | Virologist who developed the first successful polio vaccine and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Jimmy Carter in 1977 (2 wds.) |
| 32% | LUTHERBURBANK | 13 | Horticulturist who developed the Shasta daisy |
| 32% | IACOCCA | 7 | Auto executive who developed the Mustang |
| 32% | SEARLE | 6 | Company that developed the first oral contraceptive |
| 32% | EINSTEIN | 8 | Scientist who developed the theory of relativity |
| 32% | JETHRO | 6 | Inventor Tull, who developed the seed drill |
| 32% | DARWIN | 6 | Charles who developed the theory of evolution |
| 31% | HOFFMAN | 7 | German chemist who developed the use of aspirin |
| 31% | FERMI | 5 | Physicist who coined the word "neutrino" |
| 31% | KELVIN | 6 | Physicist who calculated the lowest temperature |
| 31% | ALVAREZ | 7 | Physicist who discovered the iridium layer |
| 31% | VOLTA | 5 | Physicist who invented the electric battery |
| 31% | MARIA | 5 | ___ Teresa de Filippis, Italian racer who was the first woman Formula One driver |
| 31% | SEARLE | 6 | Pfizer subsidiary that developed the first birth control pill |
| 31% | BOHR | 4 | Physicist who worked on the atomic structure |
| 31% | THOMSON | 7 | Physicist who postulated the plum pudding model |
| 30% | JETHROTULL | 10 | English agriculturist born in 1674 who developed the seed drill |
| 30% | KEPLER | 6 | Johannes ___, German astronomer, who developed the laws of planetary motion |
| 30% | FARADAY | 7 | Physicist who formulated the two laws of electrolysis |
| 30% | CHU | 3 | Physicist who co-won the Nobel in 1997 |
| 30% | CARDANO | 7 | Girolamo ___, Italian mathematician who first published the solution to the general cubic equation |
| 30% | ISSIGONIS | 9 | Alec —, Turkey-born car designer who developed the Mini in 1959 |
| 30% | LEONA | 5 | Physicist Woods who was the only women on Enrico Fermi's team that built the first nuclear reactor |
| 30% | ORLANDO | 7 | The first name of the actor who played Legolas |