Physicists

Question 1

A

Answer 1

Amedeo Avogadro (C)

Question 2

B

Answer 2

Alexander Graham Bell
Niels Bohr (C)
Tycho Brahe
Elizabeth Blackburn

Question 3

C

Answer 3

Marie Curie (C)

Question 4

D

Answer 4

Charles Darwin
Nancy Dowdy

Question 5

E

Answer 5

Albert Einstein
Thomas Edison
Helen Edwards

Question 6

F

Answer 6

Ben Franklin
Rosalind Franklin (C)
Michael Faraday (C)
Enrico Fermi

Question 7

G

Answer 7

Galileo Galillei
Hans Geiger
Pamela Gay

Question 8

H

Answer 8

Robert Hooke
Stephen Hawking

Question 9

I

Answer 9

Ernst Ising

Question 10

J

Answer 10

Harold Jeffries
Irene Joliot-Curie
Sir James Jeans

Question 11

K

Answer 11

Johannes Kepler
Marcia Keith

Question 12

L

Answer 12

Robert Leighton
Hedy Lamarr (actress - invented idea behind wifi, bluetooth & GPS)

Question 13

M

Answer 13

Brian May (Queen’s guitarist)
Ernst Mach
Lise Meitner

Question 14

N

Answer 14

Isaac Newton
Ida Noddack (C)

Question 15

O

Answer 15

Robert Oppenheimer
Georg Ohm
Yuri Oganessian

Question 16

P

Answer 16

Louis Pasteur (C)
Max Planck
Blaise Pascal
Melba Phillips

Question 17

Q

Answer 17

Helen Quinn

Question 18

R

Answer 18

Ernest Rutherford (C)
Lord Rayleigh
Sally Ride

Question 19

S

Answer 19

Carl Sagan (astrophysicist)
Erwin Schrodinger (quantum theory)

Question 20

T

Answer 20

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Nikola Tesla
Doris Taylor
Valerie Thomas

Question 21

U

Answer 21

Stanislaw Ulam
Harold Urey (C)

Question 22

V

Answer 22

Alessandro Volta

Question 23

W

Answer 23

Alfred Wegener
James Watt
Sarah Whiting

Question 24

X

Answer 24

Basilis Xanthopoulos
Xide Xie (Chinese woman)

Question 25

Y

Answer 25

Hubert Yockey (Manhattan Project) Rosalyn Yalow (medical physicist)

Question 26

Z

Answer 26

Gueseppe Zamboni Paola Zizzi (Quantum physics)