Biology
Greek philosopher considered the father of biology
Who is Aristotle?
BONUS POINTS: rock-paper-scissors with another team; winning team steals 100pts.
Anglo-Irishman who discovered the volume and pressure of a gas are inversely related
Who was Robert Boyle?
French microbiologist who pioneered germ theory
Who was Louis Pasteur?
BONUS POINTS: rock-paper-scissors with another team; winning team steals 100pts.
German physicist who won the Nobel Prize for his work on the photoelectric effect
Who was Albert Einstein?
Greek considered the father of geometry who wrote The Elements
Who was Euclid?
Moravian who pioneered the study of genetics
Who was Gregor Mendel?
BONUS POINTS: rock-paper-scissors with another team; winning team steals 100pts.
Polish scientist who discovered polonium and radium
Who was Marie Curie?
English scientist developed the first successful smallpox vaccine using cows and children, helping establish vaccination
Who was Edward Jenny?
BONUS 100:
Edward Jenner's work leading to the first successful smallpox vaccine occurred closest to which historical period?
A. Late 1600s
B. Late 1700s
C. Late 1800s
D. Late 1900s
Tuscan physicist forced to live under house arrest until his death for arguing the geocentric model
Who was Galileo Galilei?
BONUS POINTS: rock-paper-scissors with another team; winning team steals 100pts.
Persian father of algebra who popularized Hindu-Arabic numerals
Who was al-Khwarizmi?
Dutchman who discovered microorganisms using a microscope
Who was Antonie van Leeuwenhoek?
Russian scientist that developed the periodic table and correctly predicted properties of several undiscovered elements
Who was Dmitri Mendeleev?
BONUS 100:
Mendeleev developed his periodic table and predicted undiscovered elements during which century?
A. 17th century
B. 18th century
C. 19th century
D. 20th century
American scientist developed the first widely used polio vaccine
Who was Jonas Salk?
German physicists who discovered elliptical planetary orbits
Who was Johannes Kepler?
Greek mathematician who famously shouted, "Eureka" when he discovered the principle of buoyancy
Who was Archimedes?
BONUS POINTS: rock-paper-scissors with another team; winning team steals 100pts.
American scientists that demonstrated that DNA replication is semiconservative using nitrogen isotopes and E. coli
Who were Matthew Meselson & Franklin Stahl?
BONUS 100:
Meselson and Stahl demonstrated semiconservative DNA replication during which general time period?
A. Late 1800s
B. Early 1900s
C. Mid-1900s
D. Early 2000s
English chemist who developed the modern Atomic Theory in chemistry
Who was John Dalton?
German scientist demonstrated that specific microorganisms cause specific diseases; identified the bacteria responsible for tuberculosis. ________'s Postulates
Who is Robert Koch?
German physicists who laid the groundwork for quantum physics
Who was Max Planck?
German mathematician who invented calculus independently from Sir Isaac Newton
Who was Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz?
English microbiologist who won the Nobel Prize for discovering penicilin
Who was Alexander Fleming?
Italian scientist who proposed that equal volumes of gases at the same temperature and pressure contain equal numbers of particles. He has a number named after him.
Who was Amedeo Avogadro?
British scientist introduced antiseptic surgical techniques, dramatically reducing infections after surgery
Who was Joseph Lister?
BONUS 100:
Joseph Lister introduced antiseptic surgical techniques during approximately the same historical period as which other scientist's major work?
A. Edward Jenner
B. Dmitri Mendeleev
C. Jonas Salk
D. Matthew Meselson
French scientist helped establish the relationship between electric current and magnetic fields; _______'s law is named after him
Who was André-Marie Ampère?
Persian mathematician who used trigonometry to measure the earth's circumference
Who was al-Biruni?