Scientists

1,132 clues in the archive

Practice this topic Read guide

Gimme Answers

top 50

Memorize these and recognize 24.0% of all Scientists clues.

1 Louis Pasteur 18x

2 Sir Isaac Newton 18x

3 Marie Curie 15x

4 Charles Darwin 10x

5 Luther Burbank 9x

6 Niels Bohr 9x

7 Edmond Halley 9x

8 Carolus Linnaeus 9x

9 Albert Einstein 8x

10 Galileo 7x

11 Nicolaus Copernicus 7x

12 Gregor Mendel 7x

13 mercury 6x

14 Kelvin 6x

15 DNA 6x

16 Tycho Brahe 5x

17 Robert Goddard 5x

18 George Washington Carver 5x

19 Heisenberg 5x

20 Stephen Hawking 5x

21 Pavlov 5x

22 Johannes Kepler 5x

23 Ptolemy 4x

24 oxygen 4x

25 Los Alamos 4x

26 Linus Pauling 4x

27 hydrogen 4x

28 Tesla 4x

29 a telescope 4x

30 Blaise Pascal 4x

31 Jane Goodall 4x

32 Roentgen 3x

33 nitroglycerin 3x

34 Max Planck 3x

35 Marconi 3x

36 malaria 3x

37 light 3x

38 Joseph Priestley 3x

39 Israel 3x

40 Fleming 3x

41 Fahrenheit 3x

42 Enrico Fermi 3x

43 electricity 3x

44 Archimedes 3x

45 Wernher von Braun 3x

46 the Moon 3x

47 Oppenheimer 3x

48 Andrei Sakharov 3x

49 (Robert) Bunsen 3x

50 (Rachel) Carson 3x

Sample Clues

The process named for him exposes food (like yogurt) to an elevated temperature to destroy some microorganisms

Louis Pasteur

( I'm Neil deGrasse Tyson.) One of my heroes is unquestionably this 17th century man who at various times in his life was a member of Parliament, Warden of the Royal Mint & Lucasian Professor of Mathe...

Sir Isaac Newton

Her book "Radioactivite" was published posthumously in 1935

Marie Curie

He was only 22 when he boarded the Beagle in 1831

Charles Darwin

In 1926 this botanist was buried under a cedar tree in the yard of his Santa Rosa, California home

Luther Burbank

Sub-Areas

Chemistry / Elements 250

Charles Darwin (8) Newton (6) Pavlov (4) oxygen (4) Pasteur (4) Albert Einstein (4) Marie Curie (4) Joseph Priestley (3) Los Alamos (3) Dmitri Mendeleev (3)

Other 219

Niels Bohr (6) Luther Burbank (5) Kelvin (5) George Washington Carver (4) Celsius (4) Carolus Linnaeus (4) Linus Pauling (3) nitroglycerin (3) Heisenberg (3) Galileo (3)

Biology / Animals 104

DNA (6) Stephen Hawking (4) Charles Darwin (3) Mendel (3) Pasteur (2) Max Planck (2) (Luther) Burbank (2) Einstein (2) photosynthesis (2) John James Audubon (2)

Astronomy / Space 90

mercury (6) Edmond Halley (5) a telescope (4) the Moon (4) Ptolemy (3) Robert Goddard (3) Kepler (3) Copernicus (3) Galileo (2) the Sun (2)

Math / Physics 60

Sir Isaac Newton (11) Einstein (3) Switzerland (2) Marconi (2) Tesla (2) the Nobel Prize (1) Manhattan Project (1) Felix Christian Klein (1) Archimedes (1) (2 of) Germany, United States or (Switzerland) (1)

Medicine / Health 57

Louis Pasteur (12) Marie Curie (11) Fleming (3) Albert Sabin (2) malaria (2) Roentgen (2) Jenner (2) Fahrenheit (1) Pierre & Marie Curie (1) vitamin K (1)

Earth Science 26

Wernher von Braun (4) Monaco (2) earthquakes (2) barnacles (1) Robert Goddard (1) a Neanderthal (1) Glaciers (1) bazooka (1) vacuum (1) the Leakeys (1)

Botany / Plants 6

John Muir (1) rain (1) St. Elmo's Fire (1) peyote (1) Luther Burbank (1) Guglielmo Marconi (1)