I am another historical figure - Who am I?

[MrScorpio]

A little harder this time

Three yes or no questions

[Trajan]

1. Barry White ? ...

[MrScorpio]

3. No

[KitchenWitch]

2. Male?

born before 1900?

politician?

[MrScorpio]

4. No, yes, no

[KitchenWitch]

7. scientist?

born before 1800?

famous quotes?

[Huckebein the Raven]

5. Were you born before 1600 ?

Were you born before 1900 ?

Are you royalty ?

[MrScorpio]

6. No, yes, no

[Huckebein the Raven]

11. Are you in the military ?

Did you live in the New World ?

Are you European ?

[MrScorpio]

19. No, yes, yes

[FuzzySlippers]

8. American?

Black?
Alive during the Civil War?

[MrScorpio]

9. No, no, no

[swag]

10. European?

Scientist?
Famous Spouse?

[MrScorpio]

12. Yes, yes, no

[KitchenWitch]

13. Marie Curie?

[MrScorpio]

14. No

[Quetzal]

15. Is it Madame Curie?

On Edit: I guess not

[norml]

16. Alive before 1400 ad? Ever married? Died of natural causes?

?

[MrScorpio]

20. No, yes, yes

[Quetzal]

17. Are you

A male?
A female?
A physicist?

[MrScorpio]

21. yes, no, no

[Quetzal]

27. Is this person

a chemist?
a physicist?
a biologist?

[MrScorpio]

29. No, no, no

[swag]

23. English? writer? activist?

[MrScorpio]

24. No, no, no

[bicentennial_baby]

18. Rosalind Franklin?

:shrug:

[MrScorpio]

22. No

[pennylane100]

25. Emilie de Breteuil

I didn't know much about her before I googled women scientists.

[MrScorpio]

26. Nope

[norml]

28. Were you working mainly in medical science?

Were you working mainly in physics? Were you working mainly in mathematics?

[MrScorpio]

30. No, no, no

[UrbScotty]

31. Are you French? Was your spouse famous? and...

Did the US have a Democratic President when you were born?

[MrScorpio]

33. No, no, no

[MrScorpio]

32. If nobody figures this out by the fiftieth post, I'll reveal it

[norml]

36. You've said it's both a male, and a female. Is it a female?

Was she born before 1800? Was she an astronomer?

[MrScorpio]

37. I'm a male, No, and no

[BrotherBuzz]

34. Geology? Geography?

Engineer?

[MrScorpio]

35. No, no, yes

[johnnie]

38. three

Architectural engineer?
Electrical Engineer
Ever live in America?

[MrScorpio]

40. No, no, yes

[BrotherBuzz]

43. Damn, certainly not a dam engineer...

Civil? Mechanical? Practical?

[MrScorpio]

45. No, yes, no

[norml]

39. Are you Nikola Tesla? Are you Alexander Graham Bell?

Are you Michael Faraday?

[MrScorpio]

41. No, no, no

[Quetzal]

42. are you

Hedy Lamarr?

[MrScorpio]

44. No

I'm a male BTW

[swag]

46. Oh, well I think things got a little munged up there then

in response #4 where to response #2 the answer to "Male?" was given as "No."

[maveric]

47. Still alive? Infamous? Hetero?

[MrScorpio]

48. No, no, yes

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

49. Rudolph Diesel was born in Paris so it can't be him

Are you German?
British?
Italian?

[MrScorpio]

50. No, no, no

[MrScorpio]

51. The Answer

Igor Sikorsky!

http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/135.html

[mcscajun]

52. Are you Igor Sikorsky? n/t

.

[MrScorpio]

53. Uhhhh, too friggin late

You get an "E" for effort