Scientists Flashcards
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observations led to the theory of dark matter
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Vera Rubin
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the line integral of the magnetic field is proportional to the encircled current
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Andre-Marie Ampere
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developed a water screw and a heat ray (maybe)
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Archimedes
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only person to win two Nobel Prizes in Physics
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John Bardeen
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names a coil that produces lightnight
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Nikola Tesla
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proposed an incorrect “law of greatest simplicity”
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John Dalton
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persecuted for his homosexuality and later chemically castrated
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Alan Turing
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a thought experiment called his “demon”
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James Clerk Maxwell
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identified the causative agent of tuberculosis, cholera, and anthrax
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Robert Koch
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discovered the antibiotic effects of penicillin
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Alexander Fleming
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wrote On the Origin of Species
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Charles Darwin
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promoted alternating current and feuded with Thomas Edison
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Nikola Tesla
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used a prism to separate light
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Isaac Newton
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namesake dimensionless parameter that takes high values for turbulent flow
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Osborne Reynolds
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coined the term “black body radiation”
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Gustav Kirchhoff
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the distance between the nucleus of hydrogen and its electron is hir “radius”
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Niels Bohr
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criticized for stealing Rosalind Franklin’s diffraction patterns
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James Dewey Watson
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cosmological constant his “biggest blunder”
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Albert Einstein
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no two fermions can have all the same quantum numbers
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Wolfgang Pauli
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determine the gravitational constant using a torsion balance
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Henry Cavendish
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a form of thermal radiation emitted from black holes named for him
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Stephen Hawking
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“little theorem” and a “last theorem”
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Pierre de Fermat
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names the SI unit of power
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James Watt
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wrote De nova stella
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Tycho Brahe
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names the uncertainty principle
Werner Heisenberg
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names the four largest moons of Jupiter
Galileo Galilei
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namesake constant is symbolized k sub b
Ludwig Boltzmann
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discovered the Auger effect
Lise Meitner
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wrote Optiks
Isaac Newton
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claimed an electric generator he built had caused an earthquake in New York
Nikola Tesla
31
“E psi equals H-hat psi”
Erwin Schrödinger
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first to produce heavy water
Gilbert Lewis
33
law of universal gravitation
Isaac Newton
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wrote A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking
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legendarily dropped two balls of different weights off the Leaning Tower of Pisa
Galileo Galilei
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postulated that protons and other nucleons are held together by pions
Hideki Yukawa
37
coined the term “ultraviolet catastrophe”
Paul Ehrenfest
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incorrectly thought DNA was a triple helix
Linus Pauling
39
cited the giraffe’s neck as a trait acquired through life that could be passed down
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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had a huge rivalry with Nernst
Gilbert Lewis
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wrote Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
Isaac Newton
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structure named for him is made of cisternae
Camillo Golgi
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namesake “wager” in favor of belief in God
Blaise Pascal
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names an interference pattern (Rings) when light reflects between a flat and spherical surface
Isaac Newton
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rule which states that the voltage drops around a loop must sum to zero
Gustav Kirchhoff
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formulated the structure of benzene after dreaming of a snake biting its own tail
August Kekule
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advocated for mega doses of Vitamin C
Linus Pauling
48
called the father of modern chemistry
Antoine Lavoisier
49
proposed a namesake test for machine intelligence
Alan Turing
50
names with Oppenheimer the approximation that the spatial coordinates of the nucleus and electrons are uncorrelated
Max Born
51
Robert Fitzroy recruited this man as a naturalist for a voyage to South America on the HMS Beagle
Charles Darwin
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funded by J.P. Morgan
Nikola Tesla
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names a partial differential equation with Young that describes the capillary pressure at an interface
Pierre-Simon Laplace
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names a law of partial pressures
John Dalton
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gave a famous set of lectures at Caltech
Richard Feynman
56
has a totient function
Leonhard Euler
57
names the radius of the event horizon
Karl Schwarzschild
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names a cell “apparatus”
Camillo Golgi
59
the product of the standard deviations of position and momentum is greater than or equal to h-bar over 2
Werner Heisenberg
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observations provided evidence for the Big Bang theory
Edwin Hubble
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namesake electronegativity scale ranges from 0.7 to 4.0 (actually 3.8)
Linus Pauling
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coined the term “cell” in his book Micrographia
Robert Hooke
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proved that DNA is the carrier of genetic information (with Martha Chase)
Alfred Hershey
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studied a gas he called “thoron”
Ernest Rutherford
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discovered “dephlogisticated air” which we now refer to as oxygen
Joseph Priestley
66
A Mathematical Theory of Communication
Claude Shannon
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names three laws of motion
Isaac Newton
68
first to predict that rising CO2 levels in the atmosphere were causing global warming
Svante Arrhenius
69
law of conservation of mass
Antoine Lavoisier
70
equation for calculating reduction potentials of galvanic cells
Walther Nernst
71
the time derivative of the wavefunction is related to the Hamiltonian
Erwin Schrödinger
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equations govern the reflection of light when moving to a medium of higher refractive index
Augustin-Jean Fresnel
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had a major rivalry with Isaac Newton
Robert Hooke
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Kepler's mentor and teacher
Tycho Brahe
75
discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect
Albert Einstein
76
wife committed suicide because of his involvement in weaponizing chlorine gas
Fritz Haber
77
paper "Sur la combustion en général" refuted the phlogiston theory
Antoine Lavoisier
78
developed the unit of horsepower to describe the power of his engines
James Watt
79
developed a namesake process for the production of nitric acid by oxidizing ammonia
Wilhelm Ostwald
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first to state the central dogma of molecular biology
Francis Crick
81
proposed the wave-particle duality of matter
Louis de Broglie
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coined the term colligative
Wilhelm Ostwald
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names closed surfaces through which the flux of a vector field is calculated
Carl Friedrich Gauss
84
beak shape of the finches
Charles Darwin
85
demonstrated electromagnetic shielding in his namesake cage
Michael Faraday
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determined the sequence of insulin
Frederick Sanger
87
names some fibers that transfer electrical signals throughout the heart
Jan Evangelista Purkinje
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lost his security clearance following a 1954 hearing over his alleged communism
Robert Oppenheimer
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wrote What is Life?
Erwin Schrödinger
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electric flux through the boundary of a region of space equals the enclosed charge divided by epsilon-naught
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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equation states the rate of effusion of gases is inversely proportional to the square root of their densities
Thomas Graham
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names a theorem stating no local hidden variable theory can reproduce the predictions of quantum mechanics
John Stewart Bell
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There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom
Richard Feynman
94
has a free energy that measures the amount of work obtainable from a closed, isothermal, isochoric system
Hermann von Helmholtz
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namesake form of scattering explains why the daytime sky is blue
Lord Rayleigh
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metric tensor and cosmological constant appear in a set of field equations
Albert Einstein
97
save the life of a nine-year-old boy named Joseph Meister
Louis Pasteur
98
namesake particles have half-integer spin
Enrico Fermi
99
paddle-wheel experiment used to prove the conservation of energy
James Prescott Joule
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mathematically significant “triangle”
Blaise Pascal
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German physicist who computed the value of the Lamb shift while on a train ride
Hans Bethe
102
his isotherm assumes that adsorption occurs in a monolayer on the surface of the adsorbent material
Irving Langmuir
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worked with his wife, Marie-Anne Paulze, who illustrated his experiments
Antoine Lavoisier
104
namesake law gives the electrostatic force between two point charges
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
105
postulated that cancer cells use glycolysis as the primary mechanism for metabolism
Otto Heinrich Warburg
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The Skeptical Chymist
Robert Boyle
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only person to have an element named after him while he was still alive
Glenn Seaborg
108
radiant emittance of a blackbody is directly proportional to its temperature raised to the fourth power
Ludwig Boltzmann
109
formula calculates the field strength of radiation generated by an antenna
Arnold Sommerfeld
110
names a simple theory of acids and bases
Svante Arrhenius
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namesake operator is part of the wavefunction
William Rowan Hamilton
112
proved that DNA is the carrier of genetic information (with Alfred Hershey)
Martha Chase
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namesake equation describes the wavefunction of spin one-half particles
Paul Dirac
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namesake of the SI unit of energy
James Prescott Joule
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proposed that transuranium elements with magic numbers of protons and neutrons would make up the “island of stability”
Glenn Seaborg
116
developed pilot wave theory
Louis de Broglie
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names the temp above which materials lose ferromagnetism
Pierre Curie
118
used x-ray crystallography to take Photo 51
Rosalind Franklin
119
proved the existence of the nucleus
Ernest Rutherford
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disproved spontaneous generation with his swan-neck flask experiment
Louis Pasteur
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performed the oil drop experiment with Harvey Fletcher
Robert Millikan
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invented the kingdom-phylum system of taxonomy (binomial nomenclature)
Carl Linnaeus
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namesake equation corrects the ideal gas law
Johannes van der Waals
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discovered cesium and rubidium with Robert Bunsen
Gustav Kirchhoff
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paper "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem."
Alan Turing
126
coined the term “crossing-over” for sex-linked traits
Thomas Hunt Morgan
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first to interpret the wavefunction as a probability amplitude
Max Born
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showed that cracked O-rings caused the Challenger disaster in the Rogers Commission
Richard Feynman
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namesake “heating” involves current running through a resistive metal
James Prescott Joule
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had ALS and was apparently on Epstein's island
Stephen Hawking
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discovered lysozyme
Alexander Fleming
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said electromagnetic radiation was emitted in discrete "packets" called quanta
Max Planck
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Dendritic cells in the skin are named after this man
Paul Langerhans
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Wardenclyffe Tower
Nikola Tesla
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Austrian monk who worked on pea plant hybridization
Gregor Mendel
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observed the asymmetric beta-decay of cobalt-60 atoms
Chien-Shiung Wu
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creator of Chicago Pile-1, the first nuclear reactor
Enrico Fermi
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“Surely, You’re Joking”
Richard Feynman
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proposed the Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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wore a prosthetic nose because of a dueling injury
Tycho Brahe
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The Origin of Continents and Oceans introduced continental drift
Alfred Wegener
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discovered transposons by studying maize (corn)
Barbara McClintock
143
developed namesake lenses, used in lighthouses, by replacing their curved surface with concentric grooves
Augustin-Jean Fresnel
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namesake plot graphs the natural log of the rate constant against inverse temperature to find activation energy
Svante Arrhenius
145
1 over 4 pi times the permittivity of free space is equal to a constant named for this guy
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
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names the SI unit for magnetic field strength
Nikola Tesla
147
developed quaternions
William Rowan Hamilton
148
namesake free energy determines the spontaneity of reactions
Josiah Gibbs
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names a 'cycle' to calculate the lattice energy of an ionic compound based on Hess’s law
Fritz Haber
150
proposed that a particle’s momentum is equal to Planck’s constant divided by a wavelength
Louis de Broglie
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“Eightfold Way” model organized mesons and baryons into octets
Murray Gell-Mann
152
work on Brownian motion
Albert Einstein
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developed the Jacobi matrix, which is used in linear algebra to study eigenvalues
Carl Jacobi
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created calculus along with Gottfried Leibniz
Isaac Newton
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potassium dichromate and silver nitrate are used in a "black reaction" named for him
Camillo Golgi
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backwards-facing arrows denote positrons and wavy lines denote photons
Richard Feynman
157
a thought experiment about a cat
Erwin Schrödinger
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explains the Venturi effect in a narrowing pipe
Daniel Bernoulli
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worked at Bletchley Park during WWII
Alan Turing
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namesake dynamics uses stochastic differential equations to describe the motion of particles
Paul Langevin
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namesake free energy is defined as enthalpy (H) minus temperature x entropy (S)
Josiah Gibbs
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awarded a second Nobel Prize for discovering radium and polonium
Marie Curie
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conducted the gold foil experiment
Ernest Rutherford
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theory of natural selection
Charles Darwin
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offered the presidency of Israel
Albert Einstein
166
executed during the French Revolution in 1794
Antoine Lavoisier
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namesake unit of time is equal to 5.39 times 10 to the -40 seconds
Max Planck
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co-names a “cycle” used to calculate the energies needed to synthesize ionic compounds with Fritz Haber
Max Born
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names a process which removes microorganisms in milk
Louis Pasteur
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constant (6.626x10^-34) is often represented by a lowercase h
Max Planck
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developed the mathematical theory of superfluidity, in which context he introduced rotons
Lev Landau
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Dutch scientist who studied Saturn’s rings
Christiaan Huygens
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said quantum entanglement was “spooky action at a distance”
Albert Einstein
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a namesake law states that the divergence of the B-field equals zero, which implies that magnetic monopoles cannot exist
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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namesake “magneton” is symbolized mu-sub-B
Niels Bohr
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co-names the equilibrium distribution of an ideal gas speed with Ludwig Boltzmann
James Clerk Maxwell
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co-names the equilibrium distribution of an ideal gas speed with James Maxwell
Ludwig Boltzmann
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Fly Room at Columbia
Thomas Hunt Morgan
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used quartz piezoelectric transducers to develop a system of ultrasonic submarine detection
Paul Langevin
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firing a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it coming back to hit you
Ernest Rutherford
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namesake limit predicts the maximum mass of a stable white dwarf star
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
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from Poland and polonium is named in her honor
Marie Curie
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temperature scale is set to zero at absolute zero
Lord Kelvin
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coined the term “wobble base pairing” to describe the ability of tRNA to recognize multiple mRNA codons
Francis Crick
185
worked with Pierre-Simon Laplace to develop a calorimeter that measured heat in respiration
Antoine Lavoisier
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namesake “counter” is used to detect radiation
Hans Geiger
187
accused of being a communist by his colleague Haakon Chevalier
Robert Oppenheimer
188
names the SI unit of capacitance
Michael Faraday
189
namesake law relates volume and pressure in an ideal gas
Robert Boyle
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names the “God particle,” a boson discovered in 2012 at the Large Hadron Collider
Peter Higgs
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helped refine the corpuscular theory of matter
Robert Boyle
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semi-empirical mass formula that uses total nucleons to predict binding energy
Hans Bethe
193
fundamental equations of fluid mechanics are named for this guy and Claude-Louis Navier
George Gabriel Stokes
194
names the unit of charge
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
195
first to predict the existence of quarks with George Zweig
Murray Gell-Mann
196
names the units for measuring dipole moments
Peter Debye
197
6.02 x 10^23
Amedeo Avogadro
198
names a demon that can predict the future of the universe given the position and momentum of all particles
Pierre-Simon Laplace
199
credited with the accidental invention of carbonated water
Joseph Priestley
200
charge of the electron times h-bar divided by twice the mass of the electron
Niels Bohr
201
double helix model of DNA with James Watson
Francis Crick
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ratio of stress to strain in a material is known as his “modulus”
Thomas Young
203
Belgian priest who proposed the idea of an expanding universe (Big Bang Theory)
Georges Lemaître
204
names a process to produce ammonia along with Carl Bosch
Fritz Haber
205
H theorem and transport equations
Ludwig Boltzmann
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concept of each point on a wavefront being the source of further waves
Christiaan Huygens
207
experiments with mercury(II) oxide helped identify oxygen’s role in combustion
Antoine Lavoisier
208
won the Nobel in physics with her husband, Pierre, and Henri Becquerel for their work on radioactivity from pitchblend
Marie Curie
209
friction between two bodies does not depend on the area of their contact
Guillaume Amontons
210
“annus mirabilis”
Albert Einstein
211
E = mc2
Albert Einstein
212
namesake equation predicted the existence of antimatter
Paul Dirac
213
namesake equation states the cell potential equals the standard cell potential minus RT over zF times the natural log of the reaction quotient
Walther Nernst
214
developed nuclear fission with Otto Hahn and Otto Robert Frisch
Lise Meitner
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formulated and often names the planetary model of the atom
Niels Bohr
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created the idea of stimulated emission
Albert Einstein
217
developed the path integral formulation
Richard Feynman
218
modified Bohr’s atomic model to have elliptical orbits
Arnold Sommerfeld
219
namesake diagrams used to represent particle interactions
Richard Feynman
220
Laws of Independent Assortment, Dominance, and Segregation
Gregor Mendel
221
namesake of element 109
Lise Meitner
222
wrote The Descent of Man
Charles Darwin
223
wrote Systematics and the Origin of Species
Ernst Mayr
224
first observation of gravitational lensing
Albert Einstein
225
discovered hydrogen and called it “inflammable air.”
Henry Cavendish
226
namesake “friend” experiment considered an extension of Schrödinger’s cat
Eugene Paul Wigner
227
corrected the Rayleigh-Jeans law
Max Planck
228
names a mechanism by which molecules adsorb onto neighboring sites of a catalyst
Irving Langmuir
229
solved the problem of the ultraviolet catastrophe in blackbodies
Max Planck
230
work with phosphorus and sulfur confirmed that mass is conserved in chemical reactions
Antoine Lavoisier
231
the force per length of two straight wires is equal to 2 k-sub-A times the product of their currents divided by the distance between them
Andre-Marie Ampere
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expanded on the octet rule with an 18 electron rule for metals
Irving Langmuir
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names a set of intermolecular forces
Johannes van der Waals
234
died in a carriage accident
Pierre Curie
235
discovered the elements caesium and rubidium with Gustav Kirchoff
Robert Bunsen
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used row reduction to solve a system of linear equations
Carl Friedrich Gauss
237
father of the atomic bomb” Robert Oppenheimer
calculated the upper bound on the mass of a neutron star Robert Oppenheimer
Harry Truman to call him a cry-baby"
Robert Oppenheimer
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predicts the reduction of a wavefunction to a single eigenstate
Erwin Schrödinger
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invented a grappling hook to pull a ship out of a harbor
Archimedes
240
namesake “golden rule”
Enrico Fermi
241
namesake particle is a black hole with a Schwarzchild radius close to its Compton wavelength
Max Planck
242
visualized electrons as dots in this models for atomic and molecular structure
Gilbert Lewis
243
helped crack the Enigma code using the bombe
Alan Turing
244
a "pile" named after this dude is often considered to be the first functional battery
Alessandro Volta
245
multiplying his constant by the natural log of the number of microstates yields the entropy of an ideal gas
Ludwig Boltzmann
246
defined a species as members that can interbreed with one another
Ernst Mayr
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structure named for him can perform glycosylation and other modifications to proteins before their secretion
Camillo Golgi
248
proved there was no possible solution for the seven bridges of Konigsberg problem
Leonhard Euler
249
names the SI unit of electrical current
Andre-Marie Ampere
250
acids are electron pair acceptors; bases are electron pair donors
Gilbert Lewis
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names a blackbody emittance law with Josef Stefan
Ludwig Boltzmann
252
namesake of an exclusion principle
Wolfgang Pauli
253
the first to explain the concept of orbital hybridization
Linus Pauling
254
invented the pendulum clock built on his studies of moment of inertia
Christiaan Huygens
255
greater airflow velocity above an airfoil leads to lower pressure above the airfoil
Daniel Bernoulli
256
namesake incompleteness theorem says there are statements that cannot be proven true or false
Kurt Gödel
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students were Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden
Ernest Rutherford
258
worked on cryptography at Bell Labs during World War II
Claude Shannon
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discovered the cause of sickle cell disease
Linus Pauling
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names a theory that predicts the non-ideal behavior of electrolytes in solution with Erich Huckel
Peter Debye
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developed that equation to validate the Bohr model of the atom and explain electronic transitions in hydrogen
Johannes Rydberg
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inventor of the magnetometer
Carl Friedrich Gauss
263
on the team that invented the transistor
John Bardeen
264
“Father of Genetics”
Gregor Mendel
265
double-slit experiment
Thomas Young
266
namesake law is written as F equals negative k x
Robert Hooke
267
proposed “billiard ball” model of the atom
John Dalton
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namesake constant is equal to R over Avogadro’s number
Ludwig Boltzmann
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founded graph theory
Leonhard Euler
270
theory of special relativity
Albert Einstein
271
names a “condensate” phase of matter with Einstein
Satyendra Nath Bose
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namesake temperature is equal to his namesake velocity times Planck’s constant divided by Boltzmann’s constant
Peter Debye
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namesake set of four equations governing electromagnetism
James Clerk Maxwell
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names a probe to measure electron density of plasma
Irving Langmuir
275
constructed a metal Egg of Columbus
Nikola Tesla
276
namesake factor is used in calculations of time dilation and length contraction
Hendrik Lorentz
277
studied nitrous oxide and suggested it as an anesthetic
Humphry Davy
278
names a law describing the drag force on a sphere moving through a viscous fluid
George Gabriel Stokes
279
Galapagos islands
Charles Darwin
280
used Drosophila melanogaster as a model organism to study genetics
Thomas Hunt Morgan
281
discovered hydrochloric acid (“vapor of spirit of salt”)
Joseph Priestley
282
his gauge sets the curl of the magnetic vector potential equal to zero
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
283
labeled different parts of a virus radioactive phosphorus
Martha Chase
284
names a quantity that represents the region where escape velocity equals the speed of light
Karl Schwarzschild
285
discovered the double helix with Francis Crick
James Dewey Watson
286
coined the term recessive when describing alleles
Gregor Mendel
287
put on trial for supporting heliocentrism
Galileo Galilei
288
coined the term “survival of the fittest”
Herbert Spencer
289
proved that the weak force violates the conservation of parity
Chien-Shiung Wu
290
wrote Systema Naturae
Carl Linnaeus
291
developed the first-ever rabies vaccine
Louis Pasteur
292
names a method of numerical integration that is the simplest Runge-Kutta method
Leonhard Euler
293
had an ongoing feud with his Nobel prize-marte Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Camillo Golgi
294
theory of general relativity
Albert Einstein
295
Elementary Treatise on Chemistry (1789) is considered the first modern chemistry textbook
Antoine Lavoisier
296
“Eureka!”
Archimedes
297
Thomas Huxley (Aldous Huxley's dad) was nicknamed this man’s “bulldog”
Charles Darwin
298
studied the sociobiology of ants
Edward Osborne Wilson
299
names a particle accelerator lab in Batavia, Illinois
Enrico Fermi
300
coined the terms alpha, beta, and gamma rays to distinguish between radioactivity
Ernest Rutherford
301
developed the first successful polio vaccine
Jonas Edward Salk
302
development a refrigerator with Leo Szilard
Albert Einstein
303
names the SI unit for temperature
Lord Kelvin
304
developed the anthrax vaccine
Louis Pasteur
305
principle states that if a fluid’s velocity along a streamline increases, its pressure decreases
Daniel Bernoulli
306
stated that heat cannot pass from a colder body to a warmer body without some external work
Rudolf Clausius
307
formulated three laws of planetary motion
Johannes Kepler
308
names 2 by 2 matrices that can be used to describe the spin of a particle
Wolfgang Pauli
309
namesake oscillations make NMR spectroscopy and MRIs possible
Isidor Isaac Rabi
310
studied his own colorblindness and is an alternate name for it
John Dalton
311
director of the Los Alamos National laboratory
Robert Oppenheimer
312
wrote Silent Spring, which led to a U.S. ban on DDT
Rachel Carson
313
names a paradox concerning the rotation of a rigid disc
Paul Ehrenfest
314
studied white-eyed mutant flies
Thomas Hunt Morgan
315
discovered potassium, sodium, strontium, calcium, barium, magnesium, iodine
Humphry Davy
316
predicted DNA would be in structures he called aperiodic crystals
Erwin Schrödinger
317
names the near-field diffraction model
Augustin-Jean Fresnel
318
the magnitude of the friction is proportional to the magnitude of the normal force
Guillaume Amontons
319
studied the structures of coal and graphite
Rosalind Franklin
320
determined the density of the earth using a torsion balance
Henry Cavendish
321
namesake of the unit of electrical potential
Alessandro Volta
322
first director of the Human Genome Project
James Dewey Watson
323
“now I am become death, destroyer of worlds”
Robert Oppenheimer
324
namesake number equals velocity divided by the speed of sound
Ernst Mach
325
developed a method of sequencing DNA using dideoxynucleotides
Frederick Sanger
326
proposed the trichromatic theory of color vision with Helmholtz
Thomas Young
327
predicted the existence of the meson
Hideki Yukawa
328
introduced the thermodynamic square
Max Born
329
Andrew Wiles proved this guy's statement that an + bn = cn is not valid for different values of a, b, and c past n equals 2
Pierre de Fermat
330
developed the idea to use chlorine gas in World War I
Fritz Haber
331
names the identity “e to the i-pi equals negative 1”
Leonhard Euler
332
ideal gas constant (R) is Avogadro's number times his namesake constant
Ludwig Boltzmann
333
work on the redshift of galaxies helped establish the theory of an expanding universe
Edwin Hubble
334
namesake steam engine that helped power the Industrial Revolution
James Watt
335
hormone-producing cells contained in “islets” named him
Paul Langerhans
336
coined the term 'mole'
Wilhelm Ostwald
337
founded Celera Genomics
John Craig Venter
338
namesake conjecture about the most space-efficient way to pack spheres together
Johannes Kepler
339
wrote Social Statics, and was a leading Social Darwinist
Herbert Spencer
340
wrote Guns, Germs and Steel
Jared Diamond
341
coined the terms "photon" and "fugacity"
Gilbert Lewis
342
names the normal distribution, also known as the bell curve
Carl Friedrich Gauss
343
on the team that development of the BCS theory of superconductivity
John Bardeen
