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100

The Chair of the Physics Department

Who is Dr. Julia Velkovska?

100

This individual received an NSF grant to build a Galaxy catalog for multimessenger hosts of supermassive black hole binaries

Who is Dr. Stephen Taylor?

100

This individual has a dog named Brita

Who is Aaron Hunsaker?

100

This post-doc recently joined the Vandy High Energy Nuclear Physics Group

Who is Dr. Benjamin Kimelman?

100

This individual won the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Salvador Luria and Alfred Hershey for "their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses."

Who is Dr. Max Delbrück?

200

These individuals are the Director of Graduate Studies in Physics and Astronomy

Who are Dr. Alfredo Gurrola and Dr. Jon Bird?

200

These individuals won the Early Career Award from the U.S. Department of Energy

Who are Dr. Jean-Francois Paquet and Dr. Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli?

200

This individual went to James Madison University for his undergraduate career

Who is Michael Padgett?

200

This post-doc is currently serving as a STEM Instructor for the Vanderbilt Frist Autism Center's Graduate NISE Seminar

Who is Dr. Sara Frederick?

200

These Vanderbilt physicists aided in the Manhatten Project to produce Nuclear Weapons in WWII

Who are Dr. Francis Slack, Dr. Ernest Jones, and Dr. Newton Underwood

300

This individual has a dog named 'Rocket'

Who is Don Pickert?

300

This individual was recently awarded an NSF grant to fund the Multi-Messenger Astronomy program

Who is Dr. Kelly Holley-Bockelmann?

300

This first year enjoys Jojo's Bizzare Adventures - nickname Mojo-jojo

Who is Joseph Sanders?

300

These individuals are certified Yoga Instructors

Who are Dr. Savanna Starko, Dr. Brenda Fabela Enriquez, and Morgan Williams (Staff TA)?

300

This Vanderbilt astronomer was well-known for his 1943 research paper “Nuclear Emission in Spiral Nebulae.” Hint: This class of galaxies is named _______ galaxies

Who is Dr. Carl Keenan Seyfert?

400

This individual makes clothing for dogs!

Who is Ashley Eayre-Brammer?

400

This individual taught physics to every person on the Vanderbilt Baseball team

Who is Dr. Joseph Hamilton? (Retired)

400

This individual owns a monitor lizard, tarantula, snakes, and even more critters

Who is Lauren Kasper?

400

This faculty is the founder and director of the Vanderbilt Institute for Integrative Biosystems Research and Education 

Who is Dr. John Wikswo?

400

This individual is noted for her development and implementation of the Multi-Configurational Hartree–Fock approach to atomic-structure calculations and its application to the description of atomic structure and spectra

Who is Dr. Charlotte Froese Fischer

500

This individual was in a band back in the days

Who is Donald Pickert?

500

This APS Fellow was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Senior Scientist Prize for contributions to materials physics

Who is Dr. Richard Haglund?

500

This individual once had a booming career as an actor in his undergraduate days

Who is Nate Hermann?

500

This post-doc studies hydrodynamic theories and relativistic heavy ion physics

Who is Gabriel Soares Rocha?

500

This unofficial graduate student made essential contributions to Dyer Observatories first ever surveys of the night sky in 1883. He even has a star named after him!

Who is Honorary Dr. Edward Emerson Barnard?

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