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Question 1

American surgeon who was the first to perform a successful heart surgery

Answer 1

Daniel Hale Williams

Question 2

American physicist and inventor who made improvements to early radar beacons projects in WWII, now called transponders

Answer 2

Luis Alvarez

Question 3

German geologist that studied the continents and laid the foundation for the study of plate tectonics and study of continental drift

Answer 3

Alfred Wegener

Question 4

British palaentologist that studied fossils and sold fossils she found along the English Channel

Answer 4

Mary Anning

Question 5

Scottish engineer and inventor that introduced the term “horsepower” to describe the power of an engine

Answer 5

James Watt

Question 6

Greek astronomer and physicist that invented the catapult, compound pulley, and a system of burning mirrors

Answer 6

Archimedes

Question 7

English physicist that won the Nobel Peace Prize for the discovery of the electron

Answer 7

J.J. Thomson

Question 8

American humanitarian and ophthalmologist first African-American woman to work as a doctor/surgeon at the UCLA Medical Center.

Answer 8

Patricia Bath

Question 9

Serbian-American inventor and engineer developed the alternating current (AC) electrical system, which allowed for more efficient power transmission over long distances compared to the direct current (DC) system.

Answer 9

Nikola Tesla

Question 10

Scottish-born Canadian-American inventor, scientist, and engineer who invented a way to search for bullets in the body, saving soldiers’ lives during WWI

Answer 10

Alexander Graham Bell

Question 11

American psychologist best known for developing the theory of operant conditioning, which is a method of learning that occurs through rewards and punishments for behavior.

Answer 11

B.F. Skinner

Question 12

American physician who played an important role in both the United States and the United Kingdom as a social reformer, and was a pioneer in promoting education for women in medicine.

Answer 12

Elizabeth Blackwell

Question 13

American geologist who studied terrestrial craters - renowned for his work on impact craters, particularly his studies of the Meteor Crater in Arizona. He demonstrated that this crater was caused by a meteorite impact

Answer 13

Gene Shoemaker

Question 14

England/Ireland Physicist and chemist
(relationship between a gas and pressure in a closed system when the temperature remains the same) volume of gas decreases with increasing pressure

Answer 14

Robert Boyle

Question 15

New Zealand physicist and chemist famous for his gold foil experiment, conducted with Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden. This experiment led to the discovery that atoms consist of a small, dense nucleus surrounded by electrons

Answer 15

Ernest Rutherford

Question 16

German chemist who lost sight in one eye working with arsenic compounds and almost died from arsenic poisoning

Answer 16

Robert Bunsen

Question 17

Italian physician, naturalist, biologist, and poet who made contributions to the study of parasites -among the first to study and describe parasites in detail, documenting their life cycles

Answer 17

Francesco Redi

Question 18

American marine biologist who wrote a book called “Silent Spring” influencing tighter control on pesticides

Answer 18

Rachel Carson

Question 19

Alexandrian mathematician, astronomer who made contributions to the field of optics, particularly in the properties of light. His work included studies on reflection and refraction, which later influenced the development of optical science

Answer 19

Claudius Ptolemy

Question 20

American agricultural scientist who Promoted crop rotation to help keep soil from becoming depleted from nutrients.

Answer 20

George Washington Carver