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#6430, aired 2012-07-27	"OX" MARKS THE SPOT $800: Scientists believe that in the 20th Century alone, this disease killed more than 300 million people smallpox
#4115, aired 2002-06-21	20th CENTURY SCIENTISTS $400: Like Alfred Nobel, 1982 Nobel laureate Sune Bergstrom was born in this capital city Stockholm
#4115, aired 2002-06-21	20th CENTURY SCIENTISTS $800: In 1952, when Chaim Weizmann died, this scientist was invited to succeed him as president of Israel but he declined Einstein
#4115, aired 2002-06-21	20th CENTURY SCIENTISTS $1200: This quantum theorist wrote, "We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist" Max Planck
#4115, aired 2002-06-21	20th CENTURY SCIENTISTS $1600: Penicillin was the second of his antibacterial discoveries; lysozyme was first Alexander Fleming
#4115, aired 2002-06-21	20th CENTURY SCIENTISTS $2000: In the 1920s this American astronomer provided the earliest evidence that the universe was expanding Hubble
#3564, aired 2000-02-17	20th CENTURY MEDICINE $600 (Daily Double): In 1966 Chinese scientists synthesized this hormone normally made in the islets of Langerhans Insulin
#2834, aired 1996-12-19	THE 20TH CENTURY $200: This "wonder insecticide" developed by Swiss scientists in 1939 was later found less than wonderful DDT
#2031, aired 1993-06-07	THE PLANETS $100: It was located by 20th century scientists looking for Planet X Pluto

20th CENTURY SCIENTISTS: Everything changed in 1924 after he observed, "I have found a Cepheid variable in the Andromeda Nebula" Edwin Hubble

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