This is the common name for the mixture of gases we breathe
What is air?
This compound has the formula of C6H6, the simplest aromatic.
What is benzene?
This fundamental theorem connects the concept of the derivative with the integral
What is the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus?
This is the value of the Gaussian integral
What is the square root of π?
The life and death of this animal is the subject of a thought experiment on atomic decay and release of poisonous gas
Who is Schrödinger’s cat?
He designed our current iteration of the Periodic Table
What is Dmitri Mendeleev?
This term refers to stereoisomers with two or more chiral centers, but are not mirror images of their counterparts
What are diastereomers?
This equation links five of the most important numbers in mathematics.
What is Euler’s identity?
This famous mathematician conjectured that every even integer greater than 2 is the sum of two prime numbers
Who is Christian Goldbach?
This operator is used in the Schrödinger equation to determine the wave function of a particle
What is the Hamiltonian operator?
This scientist discovered the “nuclear atom structure” where most of the mass is concentrated in a positively charged nucleus.
Who is Ernest Rutherford?
This elimination reaction mechanism forms the most stable alkene as the major product following Zaitsev’s rule
What is E2?
This type of number is equal to the sum of its proper divisors, excluding itself
What is a perfect number?
This mathematician solved the Pointcaré conjecture and declined 1 million dollars
Who is Grigori Perelman?
This Greek letter represents the probability of finding a particle or electron in a particular region
What is Ѱ?
This is the value of the change in Gibbs Free energy when a reaction is at equilibrium
What is ΔG = 0?
This reaction mechanism forms a six-membered ring by combining a conjugated diene and a dienophile
What is the Diels-Alder or 4 + 2 reaction?
This mathematical structure consists of a set equipped with two binary operations: addition and multiplication, where the set is closed under both operations, and each element has an inverse under addition, but multiplication is not necessarily commutative.
What is a ring?
She was the first woman to win the Fields Medal, often referred to as the "Nobel Prize of Mathematics," in 2004
Who was Maryam Mirzakhani?
Schrödinger was born in this European country in 1887
What is Austria?
These reactants are present in a neutralization reaction where water and salt are produced
What are acids and bases?
This reagent can convert primary alcohols and aldehydes into carboxylic acids and secondary alcohols into ketones
What is chromium trioxide dissolved in aqueous sulfuric acid and acetone, aka Jones’ reagent?
This is the name of the theorem that states that every bounded, non-empty subset of the real numbers has a least upper bound (supremum) and a greatest lower bound (infimum)
What is the Completeness Axiom (or the Least Upper Bound Axiom) of the real number?
This is the largest known prime number, as of 2024, discovered through distributed computing projects such as the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS)
What is 2^(136, 279, 841) - 1
This motion describes the path of a particle inside of a small space with barriers
What is a particle in a box?