Memorize these and you could recognize 27.0% of all Scientists clues.
| # | Answer | Appearances | Sample Clue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sir Isaac Newton | 17 | 9 years after his law of gravitation was published, he was appointed warden of England's Mint |
| 2 | Louis Pasteur | 16 | He discovered that harmful bacteria in wine could be destroyed by heating it to high temperatures |
| 3 | Marie Curie | 13 | Her second Nobel Prize, awarded in 1911, was for her work in chemistry |
| 4 | Luther Burbank | 9 | In 1921 this horticulturist published the 8-volume work "How Plants Are Trained to Work for Man" |
| 5 | Niels Bohr | 9 | In the 1940s this Danish physicist served as an advisor on the atomic bomb project at Los Alamos |
| 6 | Charles Darwin | 8 | Bertrand Russell said that "What Galileo and Newton were to the 17th century," this man "was to the 19th" |
| 7 | Carolus Linnaeus | 8 | This Swedish botanist coined the term Homo sapiens to classify humans |
| 8 | Edmond Halley | 8 | He was almost right in predicting a comet seen in 1682 would return in 1758; it returned in 1759 |
| 9 | Nicolaus Copernicus | 7 | It's said he 1st saw a published copy of his "On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres" the day he died |
| 10 | Albert Einstein | 7 | The 1st English edition of his book on relativity came with 5 diagrams & a portrait of the author |
| 11 | Gregor Mendel | 7 | In 1856 this monk began his experiments that led to the discovery of the basic laws of heredity |
| 12 | mercury | 6 | Guillaume Amontons' 17th century thermometer was 1st filled with this & corrected for air pressure |
| 13 | Galileo | 6 | This Italian astronomer was born three days before Michelangelo died |
| 14 | Tycho Brahe | 5 | The colorful life of this astronomer: abducted by his uncle as a kid & lost part of his nose in a 1566 duel over math skills |
| 15 | Robert Goddard | 5 | In 1969 the N.Y. Times retracted a 1920 editorial ridiculing his claim that rockets could fly to the Moon |
| 16 | George Washington Carver | 5 | In 1943, the year of his death, the plantation on which he was born was made a national monument |
| 17 | DNA | 5 | Francis Crick & James Watson were the first to demonstrate the double-helix structure of this |
| 18 | Pavlov | 5 | In 1890 he became professor of physiology at the Imperial Medical Academy in St. Petersburg, Russia |
| 19 | Johannes Kepler | 5 | In 1600 this German astronomer became an assistant to Tycho Brahe |
| 20 | Ptolemy | 4 | Our main source of knowledge of Greek astronomy is his "Almagest", completed in the 2nd century |
| 21 | Linus Pauling | 4 | This chemist's research into ascorbic acid led to the 1970 book "Vitamin C and the Common Cold" |
| 22 | Kelvin | 4 | He entered the Univ. of Glasgow in 1834 at age 10; we know he never got an absolute zero on a test |
| 23 | hydrogen | 4 | Cavendish called it "inflammable air"; Lavoisier renamed it this |
| 24 | Tesla | 4 | N.T., who made sparks fly |
| 25 | Heisenberg | 4 | His uncertainty principle says a particle's position & momentum can't be known simultaneously |
| 26 | Jane Goodall | 4 | During her first months at Gombe in 1960, this primatologist observed chimps eating meat & making tools |
| 27 | Stephen Hawking | 3 | He is Cambridge Univ.'s Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, a chair held 300 years ago by Isaac Newton |
| 28 | Roentgen | 3 | He made advances in heat & electricity, but was most famous for his discovery of X-rays |
| 29 | oxygen | 3 | Pause, take a deep breath, & then buzz in if you know that Joseph Priestley helped discover this |
| 30 | malaria | 3 | Sir Ronald Ross won the award for discovering how this disease is transmitted by the Anopheles mosquito |
| 31 | Joseph Priestley | 3 | Sweden's Carl Wilhelm Scheele & this 18th century Englishman are both credited with discovering oxygen |
| 32 | Fleming | 3 | He said, modestly, "Nature created penicillin. I only found it." |
| 33 | Fahrenheit | 3 | German physicist who 1st used mercury in thermometers & invented a temperature scale |
| 34 | Enrico Fermi | 3 | In 1928 he published "Introduzione alla fisical atomica", a university physics textbook |
| 35 | electricity | 3 | Specific field of study of Andre Ampere & Count Alessandro Guiseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta |
| 36 | Archimedes | 3 | Discovery can happen anywhere; legend says he was in the bath c. 260 B.C. when had that famous "Eureka!" epiphany |
| 37 | Wernher von Braun | 3 | Son of a baron, he led teams that developed the V-2 rocket & launched the 1st U.S. satellite |
| 38 | Oppenheimer | 3 | From 1947 to 1952 he was chairman of the General Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission |
| 39 | Marconi | 3 | With his cousin, this Italian physicist formed the Wireless Telegraph & Signal Co., Ltd. in 1897 |
| 40 | Edward Jenner | 3 | He proved being inoculated with cowpox matter would prevent people from catching smallpox |
| 41 | Andrei Sakharov | 3 | Called father of the Soviet H-bomb, he's a hero in the West but not in Russia |
| 42 | (Robert) Bunsen | 3 | The name of this German chemist is immortalized by the gas burner in every science lab |
| 43 | (Rachel) Carson | 3 | Drawn to the sea before seeing it by a line of poetry, she became a marine biologist & 1941's "Under the Sea-Wind" was her first book |
| 44 | (Edwin) Hubble | 3 | Wendy Freedman et al. nailed down the value of this man's constant, which, with distance, helps find the velocity of galaxies |
| 45 | voltage | 2 | Ohm's law, about the relationship between current, resistance & this, can be expressed as V=IR, with V standing for this |
| 46 | Uranus | 2 | In 1781 William Herschel discovered this planet, the first discovered in recorded history |
| 47 | Thomas Edison | 2 | This inventor supposedly offered G.W. Carver over $100,000 a year to work for him, but he declined |
| 48 | the Moon | 2 | Founder of Russian science, Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov, has a crater named for him there |
| 49 | the Curies | 2 | For discovering radioactivity, Antoine Becquerel shared the 1903 Nobel Physics Prize with them |
| 50 | sunspots | 2 | 1st U.S. woman astronomer, M. Mitchell, found these solar phenomena are whirling cavities, not clouds |