Arty
Eratosthenes is best known for accurately calculating the ____________ of the ________.
circumference, Earth
Hooke’s later years were marred by scientific disputes, in particular with ________ _________, whom he accused of stealing his work without acknowledgement.
Isaac Newton
_________ link arteries and veins, as discovered by 17th century Italian physician Marcello Malpighi.
capillaries
Alfred Wegener was the first to propose the systematic theory of _____________ _________.
continental drift
Ochoa said that Polynucleotide phosphorylase may be considered the “____________ _____________” of the genetic code
Rosetta Stone
Richard Feynman was refused admission to Columbia University because it had already filled its entrance quota for ________.
Jews
Name the four humors of ill health
Yellow bile, black bile, blood, phlegm
Leeuwenhoek observed tiny creatures that he named “________________” (protozoa).
animalcules
What was the exact date that Alexander Graham Bell said, "Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see you”?
March 10, 1876
Dogs responding to a bell by salivating even when no food is provided is called, __________ or ___________, conditioning.
classical, Pavlovian
Scientists knew that shock waves from an earthquake - P, or ___________, waves, and S, or ___________ waves - traveled through the Earth and could be detected on the other side of the planet.
primary, secondary
Malaria is transmitted by __________(gender) Anopheles ____________(animal).
female, mosquitoes
Roger Bacon’s nickname “Doctor Mirabilis” also means what?
Wonderful Teacher
Lavoisier was the commissioner of the Royal ________________ Administration, where he gained access to a laboratory where he could conduct experiments on combustion.
Gunpowder
William Thomson oversaw the laying of the ________ -_____________ telecommunications cable.
Trans-Atlantic
Curie created a new field of study, atomic physics, and coined the word ______________ in 1898.
radioactivity
In 1956, Wu carried out the ____________ Experiment, which demonstrated that a fundamental principle of physics (______________ of ____________) is not universally valid.
Wu, conservation of parity
What does HTTP stand for?
hypertext transfer protocol
Democritus was known as the “____________ Philosopher”
Laughing
When a group of scientists established themselves as the Royal Society, Hooke was appointed as Curator of ________________.
Experiments
James Clerk Maxwell produced the first ever _________ photograph of a __________ ribbon.
color, tartan
The __________ ____________ is the smallest unit of measurement possible; the ________ ________ is the smallest measurable unit of time.
Planck length, Planck time
Ruby Payne-Scott helped develop __________ for Australia’s coastline in World War II.
radars
Who was the first African American woman to travel in space?
Mae Carol Jemison
When a number is the sum of the two preceding numbers, this is known as a ___________ Sequence
Fibonacci
To make the first voltaic pile, Volta stacked disks of _________, ___________, and _____________________ in a sequence that produced an electric current.
zinc, copper, and brine-soaked paper
What is the name of the space frame designed by Alexander Graham Bell that would revolutionize architecture and engineering?
tetrahedral space frame
The ____________________ theory, later disproven, provides that nerve fibers are a single, continuous network.
reticular
All computers since 1945 have been based on a model for a computer that could store programs as well as data. This model is known as ____________________________.
von Neumann architecture
Katherine Johnson calculated the trajectory for many space missions including those of ______ _______________, the first man in space.
Alan Shepard