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Question 1

English physicist who received the Nobel Prize in physics for his discovery of the neutron

Answer 1

James Chadwick

Question 2

Greek philosopher and mathematician discovered a math theory for a right triangle stating that the square of the length of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the lengths of the other two sides.

Answer 2

Pythagoras

Question 3

Polish astronomer and mathematician known for the heliocentric model of the universe - theory that the sun is the center of the universe.

Answer 3

Nicolaus Copernicus

Question 4

French chemist, pharmacist, microbiologist known for developing a heating technique to treat milk, wine to stop bacterial contamination

Answer 4

Louis Pasteur

Question 5

French naval officer and oceanographer was in a car crash that almost killed him in 1936

Answer 5

Jacques Cousteau

Question 6

Swedish chemist and inventor that invented the veneer lathe to make modern day plywood

Answer 6

Alfred Nobel

Question 7

Austrian biologist and meteorologist learned that individuals inherit one allele from each parent through his heredity experiments

Answer 7

Gregor Mendel

Question 8

English social reformer that developed a diagram similar to a pie chart to visually represent the causes of mortality in the Crimean War

Answer 8

Florence Nightingale

Question 9

Physicist and engineer from the United Kingdom (England/Scotland/Ireland) who determined the value for absolute zero in regards to temperature

Answer 9

William Thomson Kelvin (Lord Kelvin)

Question 10

English physicist best known for formulating a law that established a systematic relationship between X-ray frequencies and atomic numbers for the periodic table

Answer 10

Henry Moseley

Question 11

German mathematician and astronomer that discovered that planets move in elliptical paths around the sun and move faster if close to the sun

Answer 11

Johannes Kepler

Question 12

British professor known for discoveries in optics, calculus, gravity, and motion

Answer 12

Isaac Newton

Question 13

American astronomer who discovered a law, stated the relationship between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variable stars, allowing astronomers to determine the distance to faraway galaxies

Answer 13

Henrietta Leavitt

Question 14

Scottish physicist and mathematician best known for the formulation of the theory of electromagnetic radiation - bringing together electricity, magnetism, and light as different manifestations of the same phenomenon

Answer 14

James Clerk Maxwell

Question 15

American mathematician that was one of the first African-American women to work as a NASA scientist

Answer 15

Katherine Coleman Johnson

Question 16

American scientist known for discovering “jumping genes” or transposable elements - sequences of DNA that can move or transpose themselves to new positions within the genome of a single cell

Answer 16

Barbara McClintock

Question 17

English physicist developed the law of conservation of energy - that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed from one form to another

Answer 17

James Prescott Joule

Question 18

Austrian-Swedish physicist that conducted pioneering research on radioactivity and discovered several new isotopes

Answer 18

Lise Meitner

Question 19

American research chemist known for his work on the synthesis of physostigmine - an alkaloid used to treat glaucoma of the eyes. Made this drug more accessible and affordable

Answer 19

Percy Julian

Question 20

African-American biologist conducted studies on marine invertebrates, particularly sea urchins, to understand fertilization

Answer 20

Ernest Everett Just