Who said it?
“Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds”
Who is J. Robert Oppenheimer?
This constellation is known for having a belt.
What is Orion?
This particle is found in the nucleus of an atom and has a positive electric charge.
What is the proton?
This field studies the behavior of electrons and magnets.
Electricity and magnetism.
This woman has the Nobel Prize in both Physics and Chemistry.
Who is Marie Curie?
"I, at any rate, am convinced that God does not throw dice"
Who is Albert Einstein?
Our nearest galactic neighbor.
What is the Andromeda galaxy?
This massless particle is responsible for carrying energy in the form of light, radio waves, and other forms of radiation.
What is the photon?
This field of physics studies how the universe came to be.
What is cosmology?
This woman discovered the DNA double helix structure.
Who is Rosiland Franklin?
"If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics."
Who is Richard Feynman?
This hypothetical region in space time that is opposite of a black hole.
What is a white hole?
This particle is often referred to as the “god particle” and was discovered in 2012 at the CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.
What is the Higgs Boson?
This field of physics deals with using probability theory to describe large sets of particles.
What is statistical mechanics?
This person is considered the first American woman in space.
Who is Sally Ride?
“I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.”
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
Name for the cloud of icy bodies in our solar system, beyond the orbits of Pluto and the Kuiper belt.
What is the Oort cloud?
This category of fundamental particles combines to create subatomic particles within all nucleus.
What are quarks?
This field studies how electrons and photons interact at the quantum mechanical level.
What is quantum electrodynamics?
This woman calculated orbital mechanics for the Apollo mission and is considered one of the first African-American women to work as a NASA scientist.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
“There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.” (often attributed to two physicists)
Who is Albert Michaelson or Lord Kelvin?
This planet spins backwards.
What is Venus?
A positively charged particle with the same mass as an electron, but with the opposite polarity of electrical charge.
What is a positron?
This field suggests 10, 11, and 26 dimensional spacetime
What is string theory?
This person was the first African American woman to become an astronaut?
Who is Mae Jemison?