Physical Chemistry
Where was Tehshik P. Yoon born?
Canada
leprosy
What are the main elements of an organic compound?
Hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen
What company does Alan Aspuru-Guzik hold an Industrial Chair in Quantum Researching?
Who was most known for their work with radioactivity?
Marie Curie
Alison Wendlandt originally started college as what major?
Math
What river did Sara Borell Ruiz study and earn her doctorate on?
Tagus River
What elements did Fredrich Wohler isolate in pure metallic form?
Beryllium and Yttrium
Why was Robert Oppenheimer exiled?
He opposed the creation of the hydrogen bomb
Who was the first person to win 2 Nobel prizes and what were they for?
A. Marie Curie
B. Robert Oppenheimer
C. Alice Ball
Marie Curie; Physics and chemistry
Which colleges did Tehshik P. Yoon and Alison Wendlandt attend?
University of Wisconsin-Madison (Yoon) and MIT (Wendlandt)
What was Sarah Borell Ruiz credited for?
Developing the first oral contraceptive in Spain
Who is considered the father of organic chemistry?
a. Albert Eschenmoser
b. Friedrich Wohler
c. Dmitri Mendeleev
Friedrich Wohler
What are 2 quantum objects
Electrons and photons
What is periodicity?
The arrangement of elements based on their atomic weight and repeating pattern of properties
What is one of the focuses of Alison Wendlandt's research?
selective, cataltytic chemistry and/or the synthesis of carbohydrate and complex molecules
What society was Sara Borell Ruiz a founding member of?
Spanish Society for Biochemistry
____ and Albert Eschenmoser completed the synthesis of __, also known as ___
Robert Burns Woodward, B12, and cyanocobalamin
What is Wave-Particle Duality
Quantum objects, like electrons and photons, can behave as both waves and particles depending on how they are observed
What were the 2 elements discovered by Marie Curie?
a. radium and uranium
b. uranium and thorium
c. thorium and polonium
d. radium and polonium
D. Radium and polonium
What is the 2nd law of thermodynamics?
In a closed state, entropy always increases
What are the steps involved in pharamaceutical chemsitry?
Drug discovery, delivery, absorption, and metabolism
What did Friedrich Wohler prove and how did he do it?
He proved you could take nonliving materials and make them into a substance present in living beings; he did this by converting ammonium cyanate into urea
Where was the atomic bomb created?
The Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory
What organization was Winifred Burks Houck the first female president of and what years did she serve her term?
The National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Engineers from 1993-2001