Test your knowledge of groundbreaking American scientists and their inventions with our quiz! Discover facts about Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin, the Wright Brothers, and more.

Charles Darwin, a British scientist in the 19th century, proposed the revolutionary idea of “natural selection”, the theory that species evolve and adapt to their environment over time.

John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for discoveries and inventions that formed the building blocks of machine learning.

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