Children are more familiar with Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of Facebook (68% correctly identified him), than physicist Albert Einstein who discovered the theory of relativity (only 45% correctly identified him), the poll by Haier home appliances reveals.
Despite spending an average 17 hours and 34 minutes in front a TV screen every week, 45% do not know that Scot John Logie Baird invented the television.
Around one in 20 school children believe X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos created penicillin.
The research was commissioned as part of Haier's Let Children Dream campaign.
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