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| 1868-1934/German chemist/'father of chemical warfare' weaponized Cl gas in WW1 (2nd Battle of Ypres)/won Nobel in Chemistry for namesake process for synthsizing ammonia | |
| 1965 Nobel in Physics/famous particle physics diagrams/quantum electrodynamics (QED)/on Rogers commission for Challenger disaster/pioneered quantum computing & nanotechnology/ | |
| American cytogeneticist/won 1983 Nobel Prize for Physiology/Medicine for work with maize chromosomes | |
| Danish astronomer & alchemist/wrote Introduction to the New Astronomy & On the New Star/known for his collection of accurate & comprehensive astronomical data | |
| Austrian-Swiss physicist/was nominated by Einstein & won a Nobel Prize for his exclusion principle/began spin theory | |
| Brit who worked at the Royal Mint/called calculus 'fluxions'/binomial theorem, reflecting telescope, wrote Hypothesis of Light, formulated laws of motion and univ gravitation | |
| 1839-1903/Yale prof/invented vector calculus/created & coined phrase 'statistical mechanics' w/Maxwell & Boltzmann/1st US doctorate in engineering | |
| 1807-73/Swiss-born US professor of zoology & geology at Harvard/founded Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology/opposed Darwinian evolution/supported scientific racism | |
| American biochemist, geneticist, & entrepreneur/one of the first to sequence human genome, first to transfect a cell with a synthetic genome/founded Celera Genomics | |
| Top experimentalist/discovered benzene, electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism, electrolysis/namesake cage/SI unit of capacitance | |
| Duo which proposed the evolutionary theory of Punctuated Equilibrium in 1972/one was Harvard biologist & other was paleontologist | |
| Discovered the law of conservation of mass/the 'father of modern chemistry'/Elementary Treatise of Chemistry included list of known elements before periodic table | |
| Discovered hydrogen (flammable air)/weighed the earth and determined universal gravitational constant, G, using a torsion balance | |
| 1st inactivated Polio vaccine/trials included 20,000 physicians, 64,000 school personnel, & 1.8 million children/wrote Man Unfolding (1972), Survival of the Wisest (1973) | |
| 1931-present/Brit mathematician & physicist/developed singularity theorems w/Hawking/won 2020 Nobel in Physics/wrote The Nature of Space & Time w/Hawking | |
| Computed orbit for namesake comet/2nd Astronomer Royal of UK/improved diving bell | |
| 1777-1857/Danish physicist & chemist/discovered electric currents create magnetic fields/namesake law for this/namesake unit in CGS system/friend of Hans Christian Andersen | |
| 1777-1855/German mathematician/namesake of 2 laws of electromagnetism (Maxwell's Equations)/worked w/Weber/discovered Kirchhoff's rules | |
| Dutch biologist who discovered photosynthesis/also discovered plants have cellular respiration/vaccinated Habsburg's against smallpox/physician to Empress Maria Theresa | |
| Italian physicist wrote On the Attractive Force of Electric Fire (1769)/was made a count by Napoleon in 1810/invented the voltaic pile, the 1st battery (using copper & zinc) | |
| Brit proposed theory of evolution by natural selection/wrote On the Origin of Species (1859), The Descent of Man, The Voyage of the Beagle/studied finch beaks in Galapagos Islands/ | |
| American physicist who discovered electromagnetic induction at the same time as Faraday/developed electromagnet, electric relay, & electric doorbell/SI unit of inductance | |
| 1822-95/French microbiologist & chemist/created 1st vaccines for rabies & anthrax/namesake process for bacterial decontamination of milk/disproved spontaneous generation | |
| Italian physicist & astronomer/experimented on falling bodies, tried to determine the speed of light, wrote The Starry Messenger, Discourse on the Tides, Two New Sciences | |
| American chemist-peace activist after WW2/Chem Nobel (1954)/Peace Nobel (1962)/namesake electronegativity scale/a founder of quantum chem & molec bio/thought DNA was triple helix | |
| 1903-72/Brit paleoanthropologist/worked in Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania/fostered primate research by Goodall, Fossey, & Galdikas | |
| Polish astronomer who wrote On the Revolutions of the Celestial Sphere which espoused his heliocentric theory/formulated a version of Gresham's law in 1519 | |
| The founder of quantum theory, he discovered that electromagnetic energy could only be emitted in discrete packets | |
| 1901 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovery of X-rays/element 111 is named for him | |
| French physicist was early founder of electomagnetism/taught at l'Ecole Polytechnique/SI unit for current | |
| Worked with Bunsen to discover cesium and rubidium/formulated laws bearing his name in thermochemistry and electrical circuits/coined term 'black body' radiation | |
| 1894-1966/Belgian Catholic priest & physicist/proposed Big Bang Theory/derived Hubble's Law & estimated Hubble's constant 2 yrs before Hubble | |
| German physicist who w/Gauss invented electromagnetic telegraph/1st to use c for speed of light/SI unit of magnetic flux | |
| 18th-century Brit theologian, chemist, & political theorist/credited w/discovery of oxygen (along w/Scheele & Lavoisier) which he called 'dephlogisticated air' & soda water | |
| 1879-1981/US female mathematician & astronomer/lead computer whose work at Lowell Observatory helped find Pluto | |
| 1837-1923/Dutch physicist best known for his equation of state for liquids and gases, the forces between stable molecules are named for him | |
| American physicist who entered Yale at 15/1969 Nobel Prize for Physics for elementary particle research/named quarks | |
| Discovered four satellites of Saturn, namesake division of the rings of Saturn, namesake probe was the first to orbit Saturn | |
| 1746-1826/Italian Catholic priest & astronomer/discovered 1st dwarf planet Ceres/established observatory in Palermo, Italy | |
| 'Father of Immunology'/Pioneer of 1st vaccine (for smallpox) by proving that cowpox pus could inoculate people against smallpox | |
| 1821-94/German physicist & physician/did work on vision/did early work on energy, heat death of universe, acoustics/taught Hertz | |
| Work on nature of heat & mechanical work led to 1st Law of Thermo/Namesake 1st law related current through resistor to heat dissipated/was a brewer/SI unit of energy | |
| Brit theoretical physicist at Cambridge/wrote A Brief History of Time & On the Shoulders of Giants/worked w/Penrose on black holes/died 2018/namesake radiation | |
| 1852-1908/French physicist/1st person to discover radioactivity/won 1st Nobel in physics/namesake SI unit for radioactivity | |
| Swedish botanist, zoologist, & physician/created binomial nomenclature/Father of Modern Taxonomy/wrote Systema Naturae | |
| His work included early telescopic studies of the rings of Saturn and the discovery of its moon Titan, invented pendulum clock | |
| 1st American woman in space (1978)/youngest American astronaut/PhD in physics from Stanford/investigated Challenger & Columbia shuttle disasters | |
| Scot who greatly enhanced the effectiveness of the steam engine by adding a separate condenser and adapting it for rotary motion/developed concept of horsepower/SI unit of power | |
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