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This physicist calculated that black holes should emit radiation until they evaporate. He is almost completely paralyzed from ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease.
Who is Stephen Hawking?
Famous Italian Astronomer who coined the term "aurora borealis".
Who is Galileo Galilei?
The third planet from the Sun
What is Earth?
Of a basketball, bowling ball and car tire, this one rolls down a ramp fastest.
Increasing diversity in science is a priority of this agency, commonly known as “NSF”, which funds fundamental science and engineering.
What is the National Science Foundation?
he second female to win a Nobel Prize in physics, Maria Goeppert-Mayer, won for this model.
What is the nuclear shell model?
True to the sound of her name, she taught everyone "how" to slow light down to bicycle speeds in 1998.
Who is Lene Hau?
This planet has the largest angular momentum about our Sun?
What is Jupiter?
While some claim the moon is yellow or the color of green cheese, most people, upon examining a moon rock, would say that it is this color because of its albedo of 0.12.
What is black?
The Nobel Prizes in Chemistry has been given to 3 women. This woman and her daughter each received one for work on radioactivity.
Who is Marie Curie?
Inventor of Spread Spectrum Technology, which is the foundation of cellular devices work today.
Who is Hedy Lamarr?
The year in which Albert Einstein published his first paper.
When is 1905?
Galileo described this lowest density planet as having "ears".
What is Saturn?
Of diamond, graphite, quartz, and charcoal, this is the one not made from carbon.
What is quartz?
This iconic physicist was engaged in many civil rights activities and co-chaired the American Crusade to End Lynching.
Who is Albert Einstein?
English Chemist whose work was central in understanding the molecular structure of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal, and graphite.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
The year Louis Pasteur invent Pasteurization.
What is 1864?
Of the 8 official planets, it could almost be considered a double planet, with the largest moon relative to its size
What is the Earth?
An inertial or fictitious force that acts on objects that are in motion within a frame of reference that rotates with respect to an inertial frame.
What is Coriolis Effect?
By approving Edward Bouchet’s dissertation “On Measuring Refractive Indices”, this ivy league school because the first American university to grant a PhD to an African American.
What is Yale?
Astronomer credited with creating the first serious attempt to organize and classify stars based on their temperatures and spectral types and simplified Fleming's Spectral Class (O,B,F,G,K,M).
Deacade in which the phrase "quantum mechanics" was coined.
What is the 1920s?
This dwarf planet was named after the deity of chaos.
What is Eris?
For wheels, this force is usually much smaller than either its sliding or static counterparts.
What is rotational friction?
Field of physics with the largest amount of women.
What is astrophyics?