Physics at UO
This physics faculty member was once featured in a television show.
Who is Richard Taylor?
This physicist was the first American woman to reach space.
Who is Sally Ride?
An incorrect ballad.
What is a wrong song?
The full sentence abbreviated by the word laser.
What is light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation?
"A Star Wars Story" is the subtitle of this 2016 release.
What is Rogue One?
This physics professor has a prolific social media presence with over 25,000 followers.
Who is Yvette Cendes?
Andrea Ghez received a Nobel Prize for her work imaging this astronomical object.
What is Sagittarius A*?
Almost every 365 days.
What is nearly yearly?
This is the outermost layer of the Sun.
What is the corona?
In 2023 Kevin Costner wrangled a Golden Globe Award for his role as John Dutton on this series.
What is Yellowstone?
These four famous physicists have gargoyles adorning Willamette Hall.
Who are Maxwell, Curie, Einstein, and Newton?
This astrophysicist was instrumental for the discovery of Pulsars, who controversially was not nominated for the 1974 Nobel Prize for this discovery.
Who is Jocelyn Bell?
The only tibia.
What is a lone bone?
This number is the value of the Reduced Plank Constant.
What is 1.054×10−34 J⋅s?
What is 6.582×10−16 eV⋅s?
This is the year that famous movie… Frozen came out.
When is 2013?
The atrium in Willamette Hall is named after this mathematician and University provost.
Who is Paul Olum?
There is a movement to name the unit of momentum after this physicist.
Who is Emmy Noether?
A surgeon who oversees your exams.
What is a doctor proctor?
The amount of bananas that you would have to eat at once to kill you from potassium 40 radiation poisoning, which is equivalent to the lethal dose of 5 sieverts.
What are 50 million bananas?
“Bohemian Rhapsody" earned him an Oscar for his "mercurial" performance.
Who is Rami Malek?
This is the place where UO's first observatory was built.
Where is Skinner Butte?
The unit for two-photon absorption cross-section is named after this German physicist.
Who is Maria Goeppert Mayer?
Gorgonzola knowledge & proficiency.
What is cheese expertise?
Minkowski space is a four-dimensional space consisting of three-dimensional Euclidean space and which other quantity?
What is time?
This actor's relaxation technique of humming & chest thumping made it into a scene of "The Wolf of Wall Street".
Who is Matthew McConaughey?