821Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite and founder of the Nobel Prizes, was of which nationality?
822Dmitri Mendeleev, who created the widely used form of the periodic table, was of which nationality?
823Antoine Lavoisier, often called the “father of modern chemistry,” was of which nationality?
824Carl Linnaeus, who developed the modern system for naming organisms, was of which nationality?
825Johannes Kepler, known for his laws of planetary motion, was an astronomer of which nationality?
826Nicolaus Copernicus, who proposed the heliocentric model of the solar system, was of which nationality?
827Christopher Columbus, credited with reaching the Americas in 1492, was born in which city-state?
828Vasco da Gama, the first European to reach India by sea, was an explorer of which nationality?
829Ferdinand Magellan, whose expedition first circumnavigated the globe, was originally of which nationality?
830Marco Polo, famous for his travels along the Silk Road to Asia, came from which city?
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