Math
225 is the square of this number.
What is 15?
What is force?
Dihydrogen oxide is better known by this extremely common name.
What is water?
Adenosine triphosphate is better known by this acronym and is the source of energy for cellular functions.
What is ATP?
This English and Physics double-major became the first American woman to travel to space.
Who is Sally Ride?
A summation becomes this function as a discrete set becomes continuous.
What is an integral?
This German mathematical physicist has two theorems and a type of mathematical ring - and a club! - named after her.
Who is Emmy Noether?
A polar molecule may be described by having this property, especially when in water.
If you're sick, these organs that filter blood may become swollen.
What are lymph nodes?
This NASA computer developed the math to transition rockets into orbit and is the protagonist of Hidden Figures.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
This class of equations can be separated into "ordinary" and "partial" categories.
What are differential equations?
This astronomer is now credited with discovering pulsars - and is the keynote speaker at this year's Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics.
Who is Jocelyn Bell-Burnell?
C6 H12 O6 is the chemical formula for this common substance.
What is glucose? Or, what is sugar?
Francis Crick and James Watson owe their discovery of DNA's structure to the X-ray crystallography of this female chemist.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
Last year's president of the American Astronomical Society was none other than this UVA faculty member.
Who is Kelsey Johnson?
This mathematician was a World War II codebreaker
This is the limit at which an object becomes a neutron star rather than a white dwarf.
What is the Chandresekhar limit?
In "the most brilliant Ph.D. thesis in astronomy," Cecilia Payne-Gaposhkin demonstrated that the Sun was not made of Earth-like materials, but rather these TWO elements?
What are hydrogen and helium?
This African-American doctor has saved countless lives by figuring out how to safely store blood for future donation.
Who is Charles Drew?
This is the full name for an organization at UVA, because UVA is too good to call something a club.
What is Contracted Independent Organization?
When this French mathematician's parents locked her in her room to keep her from studying math, she snuck out through her window to keep studying. When they took her clothes away, she snuck out anyway, and developed the math to describe drumbeat waveforms.
Who is Sophie Germain?
This field of physics studies rigid matter.
What is solid-state physics?
This Austrian chemist is referred to as the "Mother of Nuclear Power."
This woman became the first woman in America to receive an MD.
Who is Elizabeth Blackwell?
Before he turned to psychology, Sigmund Freud spent a thesis cutting open hundreds of this marine animal to address the yet-unsolved mystery as to how these slippery creatures breed.
What are eels?