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| 1796-1832/French engineer & physicist/called 'father of thermodynamics'/wrote Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire (used by Clausius & Kelvin to get 2nd Law | |
| French chemist w/namesake law relating volumes of gases/determined composition of water/discovered Boron | |
| 1914-2000/Austrian-American female film star/developed radio guidance system for torpedos using frequency-hopping spread spectrum technology/incorporated into current Bluetooth | |
| 1859-1927/Swedish chemist/founder of physical chemistry/wrote Worlds in the Making/related CO2 to increased surface temps/namesake Eq for temp dependence of reaction rates | |
| 1835-1910/Italian astronomer/telescopic observations of Mars/wrote Life on Mars/proved Leonid metero shower coincided w/Tempel-Tuttle comet | |
| 1822-95/French microbiologist & chemist/created 1st vaccines for rabies & anthrax/namesake process for bacterial decontamination of milk/disproved spontaneous generation | |
| 1894-1966/Belgian Catholic priest & physicist/proposed Big Bang Theory/derived Hubble's Law & estimated Hubble's constant 2 yrs before Hubble | |
| Brit biologist & paleontologist/coined word 'dinosaur'/disagreed w/Darwin on natural selection/expert on interpreting fossils | |
| Austrian-Swiss physicist/was nominated by Einstein & won a Nobel Prize for his exclusion principle/began spin theory | |
| 1857-94/German physicist/1st proved existence of electromagnetic waves predicted by Maxwell/worked w/radio waves/discovered photoelectric effectunit of frequency | |
| 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 | |
| 1821-94/German physicist & physician/did work on vision/did early work on energy, heat death of universe, acoustics/taught Hertz | |
| 1903-72/Brit paleoanthropologist/worked in Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania/fostered primate research by Goodall, Fossey, & Galdikas | |
| 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 | |
| 1852-1908/French physicist/1st person to discover radioactivity/won 1st Nobel in physics/namesake SI unit for radioactivity | |
| British biochemist/won 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of partition chromatography with Archer Martin | |
| Did research into color blindness/wrote Meteorological Observations and Essays (1793)/credited with developing modern atomic theory | |
| Destroyed the theory of 'vitalism' or 'vital force' by synthesizing an organic compound (urea) from inorganic material (ammonium cyanate)/mentored by Berzelius | |
| Early Swedish chemist created chemical abbreviations, discovered Si, Se, Th, Ce/coined protein, polymer, isomer, catalysis, allotrope | |
| Discovered the law of conservation of mass/the 'father of modern chemistry'/Elementary Treatise of Chemistry included list of known elements before periodic table | |
| American physician-geneticist who led the Human Genome Project/current director of National Institutes of Health/wrote The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief | |
| The founder of quantum theory, he discovered that electromagnetic energy could only be emitted in discrete packets | |
| Discovered four satellites of Saturn, namesake division of the rings of Saturn, namesake probe was the first to orbit Saturn | |
| 2nd father of atomic bomb/worked on Manhattan Project/quoted Bhagavad Gita: 'Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds'/opponent of 2nd Red Scare/security clearance revoked | |
| This Frenchman postulated particle-wave duality | |
| 1807-73/Swiss-born US professor of zoology & geology at Harvard/founded Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology/opposed Darwinian evolution/supported scientific racism | |
| 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) | |
| Irish chemist who wrote The Sceptical Chymist/largely regarded as 1st modern chemist/discovered the law relating the pressure and volume of a gas | |
| Wrote articles on bacteriology, immunology, & chemotherapy/discovered lysozyme/Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 w/H Florey and EB Chain for discovering penicillin | |
| 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics/discovered the neutron in 1932/wrote MAUD report to instigate atomic bomb research/Brit team member for Manhattan project | |
| Described electrons as wave functions instead of point particles; devised a famous cat-related thought experiment | |
| 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) | |
| 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 | |
| Namesake law was actually 1st published by Gay-Lussac who credited it an unpublished work by this scientist/discovered the law relating the temperature and volume of a gas | |
| Austrian physicist & philosopher/studied shock waves/influenced positivism & pragmatism/namesake number gives ratio to speed of sound/The Science of Mechanics/Knowledge & Error | |
| Won a Nobel Prize for his research on transuranium elements, ten of which he discovered | |
| Computed orbit for namesake comet/2nd Astronomer Royal of UK/improved diving bell | |
| Scottish physicist who formulated a comprehensive theory of electromagnetism with his namesake equations/wrote A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field | |
| Created the first version of the modern periodic table of elements and used it to predict undiscovered elements | |
| 1931-present/Brit mathematician & physicist/developed singularity theorems w/Hawking/won 2020 Nobel in Physics/wrote The Nature of Space & Time w/Hawking | |
| Ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher & traveler/mentored by Leucippus whose atomic theory he elaborated in greater detail | |
| 1901 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovery of X-rays/element 111 is named for him | |
| The Wizard of Menlo Park/invented phonograph, motion picture camera, incandescent lightbulb/supported DC in current wars | |
| 1904-68/Russian-American cosmologist/invented liquid drop model/explained alpha decay by quantum tunneling/worked on Big Bang/wrote One Two Three...Infinity & Mr Tompkins series of | |
| Credited with launching the first liquid-fueled rocket in 1926/wrote A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes | |
| Serbian American who supported AC current in the current wars/namesake coil/278 patents in 26 countries/SI unit of magnetic flux density | |
| Discovered the relationship between the volume of a gas and the total number of gas particles; the constant number of particles per mole of a substance is named for him | |
| 1746-1826/Italian Catholic priest & astronomer/discovered 1st dwarf planet Ceres/established observatory in Palermo, Italy | |
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| 1847-1922/Scottish inventor/1st practical telephone/founded AT&T in 1885/wife & mother were deaf leading to his experimenting w/hearing devices/supported eugenics | |
| German astronomer/proposed 3 laws of planetary motion/assistant to Tycho Brahe/solved sphere packing problem/wrote Mysterium Cosmographicum (heliocentric theory w/Platonic Solids | |
| 1843-1926/Italian biologist/worked on central nervous system & kidneys/discovered namesake apparatus in cell & helped Laveran prove Plasmodium as cause of malaria | |
| Only American to win the Nobel Prize in Physics twice/one for inventing transistor/other for BCS theory (superconductivity) | |
| Discovered the electron using cathode rays; devised the plum pudding model of the atom | |
| 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 Renaissance scientist called 'Father of Empiricism'/developed scientific method/wrote Novum Organum, The New Atlantis, & Valerius Terminus | |
| 1855-1916/US astronomer & businessman/fueled speculation about canals on Mars/founded namesake observatory in Flagstaff, AZ/led effort to discover Pluto | |
| Top experimentalist/discovered benzene, electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism, electrolysis/namesake cage/SI unit of capacitance | |
| British chemist used electrolysis to separate compounds isolating Na, K, Mg, B, Ba & I/discovered Cl/mentored Faraday/created mining lamp | |
| 1st American woman in space (1978)/youngest American astronaut/PhD in physics from Stanford/investigated Challenger & Columbia shuttle disasters | |
| 1879-1981/US female mathematician & astronomer/lead computer whose work at Lowell Observatory helped find Pluto | |
| Won 1909 Noble Prize in Physics for work in wireless telegraphy/pioneered work in long-distance radio transmission | |
| American cytogeneticist/won 1983 Nobel Prize for Physiology/Medicine for work with maize chromosomes | |
| Element 104 is named for him/Nobel for Chemistry in 1908/distinguished/named alpha & beta radiation/discovered the nucleus & proton through his gold foil experiment | |
| 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 | |
| German winner of 1905 Nobel for Medicine/founded bacteriology/namesake Postulates-4 principles linking microorganisms to disease/identified cause of tuberculosis, cholera, anthrax | |
| French zoologist whose evolutionary theory said parents could pass on traits acquired through use or disuse during their lifetime | |
| 1578-1657/Brit doctor/1st of understand circlulation of blood in humans/physician to King Charles I/much of his work was destroyed by English Civil War & Great Fire of London | |
| Determined the charge of the electron through his oil drop experiment | |
| Caltech physicist/namesake Lectures on Physics/group leader at Los Alamos (Manhattan Proj)/There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom/The Principle of Least Action in Quantum Mechanics | |
| 1791-1872/US inventor & painter/invented single-wire telegraphy/developed namesake code for telegraphy | |
| 1965 Nobel in Physics/famous particle physics diagrams/quantum electrodynamics (QED)/on Rogers commission for Challenger disaster/pioneered quantum computing & nanotechnology/ | |
| 1882-1944/Brit astronomer/known for May 1919 eclipse that confirmed general relativity/namesake limit is limit to luminosity of stars | |
| Geneticist who connected chromosomes to heredity/worked w/fruit flies/Fly Room at Columbia U/Nobel Prize 1933/from KY | |
| Brit physician (1813-1858)/leader in adoption of anesthesia & medical hygiene/Father of Modern Epidemiology b/c of work tracing source of Soho, London cholera outbreak (1854) | |
| 1650-1715/English inventor who created the 1st commercially use steam powered device/pump used to drain mines/made public water supply practical | |
| Opponent of Jewish persecution by Nazis, this German won a Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1944 for the discovery of nuclear fission/often called the 'Father of Nuclear Chemistry' | |
| Devised quantum theory's uncertainty principle | |
| 1906-97/US astronomer/discovered Pluto in 1930 at Lowell Observatory/discovered many asteroids/his ashes were placed in New Horizons spacecraft | |
| Did considerable surveying work for rebuilding of London after Great Fire/namesake law for linear springs, worked in astronomy & microscopy, discovered cells, disliked Newton | |
| American biochemist, geneticist, & entrepreneur/one of the first to sequence human genome, first to transfect a cell with a synthetic genome/founded Celera Genomics | |
| Austrian physicist & philosopher/developed statistical mechanics/Prof & later president of University of Graz/didn't get along w/Mach, equation for entropy is on his gravestone | |
| Invented lightning rod, proposed concept of positive/negative charges for electricity | |
| Swedish botanist, zoologist, & physician/created binomial nomenclature/Father of Modern Taxonomy/wrote Systema Naturae | |
| Brit who made great discoveries after leaving Cambridge during a plague outbreak/derived Kepler's Laws mathematically/wrote Principia Mathematica & Opticks (had a color wheel) | |
| Danish astronomer & alchemist/wrote Introduction to the New Astronomy & On the New Star/known for his collection of accurate & comprehensive astronomical data | |
| Though she discovered nuclear fission alongside another person in this quiz, she was overlooked by the Nobel committee for purely personal reasons | |
| Theorized that electrons circle the nucleus in discrete orbits; later developed the electron shell model and used it to explain periodicity | |
| Worked with Bunsen to discover cesium and rubidium/formulated laws bearing his name in thermochemistry and electrical circuits/coined term 'black body' radiation | |
| His work included early telescopic studies of the rings of Saturn and the discovery of its moon Titan, invented pendulum clock | |
| 1839-1903/Yale prof/invented vector calculus/created & coined phrase 'statistical mechanics' w/Maxwell & Boltzmann/1st US doctorate in engineering | |
| Famous for her research on radioactivity for which she won Nobel prizes in physics and chemistry | |
| Perhaps the most famous scientist of all time, many remember his equation, E=mc^2. However, he won his Nobel Prize for his work on the photoelectric effect. | |
| 1852-1919/German chemist/won 1902 Nobel Prize/discovered namesake esterification/developed namesake projection/hypothesized lock & key mechanism of enzymes | |
| Greek head librarian at Alexandria/measured circumference of earth by measuring the distance from Syene to Alexandria/invented study of geography/namesake prime number sieve | |
| Best known for contributions on extraterrestrial life, did demonstration on the production of amino acids in space, wrote Cosmos | |
| Dutch biologist who discovered photosynthesis/also discovered plants have cellular respiration/vaccinated Habsburg's against smallpox/physician to Empress Maria Theresa | |
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| Duo which proposed the evolutionary theory of Punctuated Equilibrium in 1972/one was Harvard biologist & other was paleontologist | |
| 'Father of Immunology'/Pioneer of 1st vaccine (for smallpox) by proving that cowpox pus could inoculate people against smallpox | |
| Ranked as 1 of the top 3 mathematicians/native of Syracuse opposed Romans with terrifying machines/defined law of buoyancy//wrote Sand Reckoner & Quadrature of the Parabola | |
| Remembered as one of the two fathers of the atomic bomb for his work on the Manhattan Project, he created the first nuclear reactor to initiate a self-sustained chain reaction | |
| British mathematician cracked German Enigma machine at Bletchley Park during WWII/created computer language/'Father of Computer Science' & artificial intelligence/namesake machine | |
| 1514-64/Flemish-Belgian physician/1st textbook of human anatomy (Fabrica)/dissected human cadavers/destroyed Galen's theory of humors | |
| Persian Astronomer/crater and minor planet named for him/wrote Book of Fixed Stars in 964/identified Large Magellanic Cloud/made earliest recorded observation of Andromeda Galaxy | |
| 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 | |
| German physicist/mathematician who 1st stated both the 1st & 2nd Laws of Thermodynamics in On the Moving Force of Heat (1850)/introduced concept of entropy | |
| French physicist developed namesake law to calculate the force between 2 static charges/SI unit for charge | |
| 1907-64/US female marine biologist/wrote Silent Spring, The Sea Around Us, Under the Sea Wind/got DDT banned/inspired movement to create EPA | |
| 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 | |
| French oceanographer known for educational programs on pollution and the ocean/co-inventor of the Aqua Lung | |
| Discovered hydrogen (flammable air)/weighed the earth and determined universal gravitational constant, G, using a torsion balance | |
| 1754-1826/French chemist/discovered Law of Definite Proportions (or Constant Composition) in 1779/also called __?__'s Law | |
| 1769-1832/French naturalist/called 'founding father of paleontology'/proponent of extinction by castastrophism/wrote The Animal Kingdom/identified Mastedon/named pterisaur | |
| 1933-present/US physicist-astronomer/discovered cosmic microwave background radiation w/Robert Wilson/Nobel in Physics in 1978 | |
| French physicist was early founder of electomagnetism/taught at l'Ecole Polytechnique/SI unit for current | |
| 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 | |
| Meteorologist who led expeditions to Greenland/advanced theory of continental drift in 1912 which was controversial until the 1950's | |
| 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/ | |
| Arab philosopher (965-1040AD) known as father of experimental physics, modern optics, & scientific methodology/regarded as 1st theoretical physicist & 1st to use scientific method | |
| 1777-1855/German mathematician/namesake of 2 laws of electromagnetism (Maxwell's Equations)/worked w/Weber/discovered Kirchhoff's rules | |
| Female Brit X-ray crystallographer whose X-ray diffraction work led to discovery of double helix DNA/work was shown to Crick w/out permission/not credited w/discovery at the time | |
| 1726-97/Scto geologist/called 'father of modern geology'/argued earth's history could be discovered from rocks/earliest proponent of uniformitarianism | |
| The 'God particle,' the 'most sought-after particle in modern physics,' is named after this man | |
| German physicist who w/Gauss invented electromagnetic telegraph/1st to use c for speed of light/SI unit of magnetic flux | |
| 1738-1822/Brit-German astronomer/discovered Uranus (1781)/catalogued 800 double stars & 2500 nebulae/1st to describe spiral structure of Milky Way/discovered infrared radiation | |
| 1896-1986/US physicist-chemist/developed molecular orbital theory/developed his own scale for electronegativity in 1934/won 1966 Nobel for Chem | |
| American Astronomer, most notable as a pioneer of he search for extraterrestrial life including the founding of SETI, the first attempt to detect them in 1960 under project OZMA | |
| 1811-99/German chemist/discovered caesium & rubidium w/Kirchhoff/emission spectra of heated elements/his lab assistant created namesake burner/pioneer of photochemistry | |
| 1803-53/Austrian physicist/postulated namesake effect relating wave frequency to speed of source & observer/used to explain binary star color/namesake weather radar | |
| 1797-1875/Scot geologist/wrote Principles of Geology/supported uniformitarianism/influenced Darwin's thinking | |
| 1825-95/Brit biologist-anthropologist/Darwin's Bulldog/coined term 'agnosticism'/pushed for scientific education/said birds evolved from dinosaurs | |
| 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 | |
| Nazi rocket scientist/developed V-2 for Nazis and Saturn V for NASA | |
| American physicist who entered Yale at 15/1969 Nobel Prize for Physics for elementary particle research/named quarks | |
| 18th-century Brit theologian, chemist, & political theorist/credited w/discovery of oxygen (along w/Scheele & Lavoisier) which he called 'dephlogisticated air' & soda water | |
| 1964-present/US female biochemist/pioneered CRISPR/won 2020 Nobel in Chemistry/UC Berkeley prof | |
| 1768-1830/French physicist/went w/Napoleon to Egypt/namesake series for heat flow/discovered greenhouse effect/namesake law of conduction/wrote The Analytic Theory of Heat | |
| 1730-1817/French astronomer/cataloged 110 nebulae & star clusters | |
| 1889-1953/US astronomer/proved existence of many galaxies beyond Milky Way/namesake law relates galaxy velocity to distance from earth/namesake telescope was deployed in 1990 | |
| US paleoanthropologist/discovered Lucy (hominin australopithicene) in Afar Triangle region of Hadar, Ethiopia | |
| First suggested the existence of isotopes | |
| 1875-1946/UC Berkeley Chem prof/discovered covalent bonds/electron pair/namesake dot diagrams/coined 'photon'/nomnated 41 times but never won Nobel in Chem/taught Urey & Seaborg | |
| 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 discovered electromagnetic induction at the same time as Faraday/developed electromagnet, electric relay, & electric doorbell/SI unit of inductance | |
| 1st Astronomer Royal of England/catalogued over 3000 stars | |
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