Memorize these and recognize 24.0% of all Scientists clues.
| # | Answer | Count | Sample Clue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sir Isaac Newton | 18 | ( 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, Ward... |
| 2 | Louis Pasteur | 17 | The process named for him exposes food (like yogurt) to an elevated temperature to destroy some microorganisms |
| 3 | Marie Curie | 15 | Her book "Radioactivite" was published posthumously in 1935 |
| 4 | Charles Darwin | 10 | In 1859 a theory was born when he wrote, "from so simple a beginning endless forms... have been, and are being, evolved" |
| 5 | Luther Burbank | 9 | In 1926 this botanist was buried under a cedar tree in the yard of his Santa Rosa, California home |
| 6 | Niels Bohr | 9 | The dad of this physicist was professor of physiology at the U. of Copenhagen & his bro, a big-time mathematician |
| 7 | Edmond Halley | 9 | This English astronomer died on Jan. 14, 1742 at age 85; that's 9 years longer than than we might have expected |
| 8 | Carolus Linnaeus | 9 | This Swedish botanist coined the term Homo sapiens to classify humans |
| 9 | Albert Einstein | 8 | He changed the world through physics: LENT INEBRIATES |
| 10 | Galileo | 7 | In 1609 he presented his eight-powered telescope to the Venetian Senate; he got life tenure & doubled his salary |
| 11 | Nicolaus Copernicus | 7 | I look at the world & I notice it's turning—thanks to this man who studied at the University of Krakow in the 1490s |
| 12 | Gregor Mendel | 7 | Scientists in Brno dug up the remains of this local hero around the bicentennial of his birth & analyzed his genetic code |
| 13 | mercury | 6 | It was Gabriel Fahrenheit who substituted this for alcohol in the thermometer |
| 14 | Kelvin | 6 | Known for the second law of thermodynamics, this lord helped with the laying of the transatlantic cable |
| 15 | DNA | 6 | Alec Jeffreys won for his 1984 discovery of fingerprinting of this genetic material |
| 16 | Tycho Brahe | 5 | Uranienborg & Stjerneborg were this Danish astronomer's observatories on the island of Ven |
| 17 | Robert Goddard | 5 | In 1920, the New York Times said he lacks the “knowledge ladled out daily in high schools”; on July 17, 1969, the paper apologized |
| 18 | George Washington Carver | 5 | Well, that's just nuts: AVERAGE CHOWING STRONGER |
| 19 | Heisenberg | 5 | His uncertainty principle says a particle's position & momentum can't be known simultaneously |
| 20 | Stephen Hawking | 5 | Lucasian Prof. of Mathematics at Cambridge, he was born on January 8, 1942, 300 years to the day after Galileo's death |
| 21 | Pavlov | 5 | In 1890 he became professor of physiology at the Imperial Medical Academy in St. Petersburg, Russia |
| 22 | Johannes Kepler | 5 | Best known for his theories about planetary orbits, in 1604 he became the first to explain how eyeglasses correct vision |
| 23 | Ptolemy | 4 | ( Kelly of the Clue Crew indicates a diagram of the solar system on the monitor.) The sun revolves around the Earth in the model of the universe by th... |
| 24 | oxygen | 4 | Proving air is a composite substance, 1772 winner Joseph Priestley discovered the gases nitrogen, ammonia & this one he called "pure air" |
| 25 | Los Alamos | 4 | ( Emily Blunt presents the clue.) Arguing that the far-flung Manhattan Project needed a central facility, Oppenheimer helped choose an isolated New Me... |
| 26 | Linus Pauling | 4 | This American chemist is the only person to have won 2 unshared Nobel prizes |
| 27 | hydrogen | 4 | While studying the Solar Spectrum, Angstrom found this element in the sun's atmosphere |
| 28 | Tesla | 4 | After this coil inventor moved to America, he worked briefly with another genius—Thomas Edison |
| 29 | a telescope | 4 | Around 1668 Isaac Newton built the first reflecting one of these |
| 30 | Blaise Pascal | 4 | This 17th c. French scientist's law states that a fluid in a container transmits pressure equally in all directions |
| 31 | Jane Goodall | 4 | This British woman discovered that chimpanzees are not vegetarian but omnivorous |
| 32 | Roentgen | 3 | Last name of the man who took the image seen here in the 1890s |
| 33 | nitroglycerin | 3 | Early in his career, a factory Alfred had built to produce this liquid explosive blew up, killing his brother Emil |
| 34 | Max Planck | 3 | The first major physicist to support Albert's ideas, this quantum theory originator was a constant support |
| 35 | Marconi | 3 | Hertz was the 1st to send & receive radio waves; this Italian devised a practical means for communicating via those waves |
| 36 | malaria | 3 | Sir Ronald Ross won the award for discovering how this disease is transmitted by the Anopheles mosquito |
| 37 | light | 3 | Einstein's theory that this travels in a stream of particles led to the "electric eye" |
| 38 | Joseph Priestley | 3 | In 1774 this British chemist discovered a gas he called "dephlogisticated air", what we now call oxygen |
| 39 | Israel | 3 | In 1952 Einstein was offered & turned down the presidency of this country |
| 40 | Fleming | 3 | This bacteriologist was knighted in 1944 for his discovery of penicillin |
| 41 | Fahrenheit | 3 | Ran hot & cold: FINE HEARTH |
| 42 | Enrico Fermi | 3 | In 1942 at the University of Chicago, Leo Szilard helped this Italian create the first nuclear reactor |
| 43 | electricity | 3 | Galvani said he'd found a new type of this restricted to animal tissue; Volta proved it's the same type that goes through metal |
| 44 | Archimedes | 3 | Discovery can happen anywhere; legend says he was in the bath c. 260 B.C. when had that famous "Eureka!" epiphany |
| 45 | Wernher von Braun | 3 | Born in Germany in 1912, he co-developed the V-2 rocket against the Allies but became a U.S. citizen in 1955 |
| 46 | the Moon | 3 | Its cycle includes crescent, full, new & quarter phases |
| 47 | Oppenheimer | 3 | From 1947 to 1952 he was chairman of the General Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission |
| 48 | Andrei Sakharov | 3 | Called father of the Soviet H-bomb, he's a hero in the West but not in Russia |
| 49 | (Robert) Bunsen | 3 | In 1834 one of the projects this German had on the back burner was finding an antidote for arsenic poisoning |
| 50 | (Rachel) Carson | 3 | 1929: Bachelor's in bio from Penn. College for Women; 1962: published "Silent Spring", first serialized in The New Yorker |
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