Noyce
Shout out to Robert Noyce for contributing to our billion-dollar endowment. The name of this company is displayed on the processing-chip he invented.
What is Intel?
This chemist was the first female to win any Nobel prize. She won Nobel prizes in both chemistry and physics for her work with radioactivity.
Who is Marie Currie?
By some, he is thought of as the scariest organic chemistry professor. By others, he is thought of as a star track alumni of Loras College.
Who is Professor Sieck?
The unit of mass.
What is kilogram (kg)?
Focus on measurement and instrumentation
What is analytical chemistry?
The type of tree on display near the west doors.
What is an elm?
This female biochemist contributed essential data to Watson and Crick, who ended up winning the nobel prize for their theory that DNA forms a double helix.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
This chemistry professor heads the Environmental Studies concentration.
Who is Professor Graham?
The unit of temperature
What is Kelvin (K)?
Focus on carbon-containing compounds
What is Organic Chemistry?
Legend says Robert Noyce stole and butchered this animal.
What is a pig?
This biochemist co-authored an equation taught in every introductory biochem class. Her name is the latter part of the hyphenated name of the famous equation.
Who is Maud Menten?
This chemistry professor can not get enough of Grinnell. He is a Grinnell alum, and he will tell you about courses he took in his undergrad with current Grinnell professors, such as Professor Trimmer, if you ask!
Who is Professor Leggans?
The unit of current
What is ampere (A)?
Focus on organic processes in organisms
What is Biochemistry?
This lab is the only one that still has a slate chalkboard.
What is the Instrumental/Pchem Lab?
Now one of the leading treatments for leprosy, the "Ball method" was only attributed to this chemist after her death because she was not an author on the original paper.
Who is Alice Ball?
This professor named their cats after Mars rovers.
Who is Professor Marzluff
The unit of amount
What is mole (mol)?
Focus on the synthesis and behaviors of metals and organometallic compounds
What is Inorganic Chemistry?
This is the research Tom Cech earned his Nobel Prize in.
What is Catalytic properties of RNA?
In 1947, this scientist became the first black woman to earn a PhD in chemistry.
Who is Marie Daly?
This professor refuses to enter the NMR lab.
Whos is Professor Sharpe?
The unit of brightness
What is candela (cd)?
Focus on chemical systems in terms of the principles, practices, and concepts of physics
What is Physical Chemistry?