Nicholas/Arty
___________ is __________’s ongoing attempt to __________ how the __________ works.
Science, humanity’s, understand, Universe
In 1660, several members of Boyle’s group, including Boyle, founded the _________ _________, the world’s first scientific body.
Royal Society
Louis Agassiz supported Cuvier’s theory of _____________.
catastrophism
Max Planck investigated _______ bodies and calculated vibration frequencies of _______ during the 1890s.
black, atoms
“I did not invent __________. __________ did that.” -Fleming
penicillin, Nature
DNA stands for ___________________ ________.
deoxyribonucleic acid
_________ ___ _______ proposed that water was the primary substance of the cosmos.
Thales of Miletus
“There is a ______, or ________ _________ in the air we live in.” -Boyle
spring, elastically power
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck left the French military due to an ________.
injury
Camillo Golgi was a staunch ____________ and insisted that nerve cells were physically __________.
reticulist, connected
Fleming’s most famous discovery was __________, which is classified as the first ____________.
penicillin, antibiotic
Franklin worked alongside __________ __________ at King’s College London
Maurice Wilkins
Galileo supported ____________’s radical idea of a ___________ Universe, where the _________ rotates around the _______.
Copernicus, heliocentric, Earth, Sun
In Italy, Robert Boyle witnessed reactions to the death of __________.
Galileo
Jan Ingenhousz found that plants emit low levels of _________ __________ in the dark.
carbon dioxide
“The laws of ________ have no ______________ for the __________ _________; they depend on the ________” -Max Planck
physics, consideration, human senses, facts
In 1941, penicillin was trialed on a man named _________ ____________, who had abscesses and blood __________. Injections helped, but supplies ran out, and he ______.
Albert Alexander, blood poisoning, died
What is the word for programmed cell death?
cell apoptosis
Scholars at the House of Wisdom included ____________, who was an innovator in the field of __________ and dissected ______ _______.
Alhazen, optics, bulls’ eyes
Gay-Lussac’s many investigations involved ____ ascents in a _________ __________.
two, hydrogen balloon
Joseph Black returned to Glasgow to teach and began experiments on the effects of _______ on ________.
heat, liquid
Max Planck expressed energy mathematically as ______ = ______.
E=hv
Lehmann’s discovered that the core of the Earth is more intriguing than previously though because the inner core ____________ separately.
rotates
___________ ____ has been heralded as one of science’s most important photographs.
Photograph 51
___________ discovered __________ in 1928, saving at least ____________ lives during World War II. *Fleming, penicillin, 200 million
Robert Hooke worked as an assistant to __________, and then to natural philosopher __________.
Thomas Willis, Robert Boyle
In 1800, Georges Cuvier was the first to identify the fossil of a flying reptile that he named __________.
pterodactyl
There are __________ Max Planck Institutes worldwide.
83
Raman set up the _______ Journal of ________ in the year _______.
Indian, Physics, 1926
James Watson later led the _______ _________ Project, which aimed to identify and ____ all the genes of a _______ ____________.
Human Genome, map, human chromosome
Thales's prediction required recognizing a repeating _____-year cycle. This cycle was called the ________ cycle and involved the movements of the Sun and ________.
18, Saros, Moon
Robert Hooke assisted __________ in redesigning the city of __________ after the ________ ________.
Wren, London, Great Fire
In 1795, Georges Cuvier was offered a job at the _________ _________ of __________ History in Paris.
National Museum, Natural
Santiago Ramón y Cajal won the Nobel Prize jointly with _______ in the year _______.
Golgi, 1906
Raman said, “Science is a fusion of one’s __________ and ___________ functions devoted to the ______________ of _________.”
aesthetic, intellectual, representations, nature
Crick and Watson made their famous 3D model out of various materials, including ________ and _______ ________.
paper and metal plates
Aristotle founded the __________ in Athens. It was also known as the ___________ School, after the Greek word “__________” which means _________.
Lyceum, Peripatetic, walking
Robert Boyle recorded __________ different experiments with a ______ in ____ book.
43, pump, 1
Georges-Louis Leclerc was inspired by his work at the ________ ___ _____ (the royal botanical gardens in _______).
Jardin du Roi, Paris
In the year _______, Max Planck was one of the first prominent physicists to publicly support Einstein’s ________ ___ __________.
1905, Theory of Relativity
Inge Lehmann analyzed data from a huge earthquake in _____________ in the year _______. *New Zealand, 1929
Photograph 51 took __________ hours to produce in an X-ray.
60
Aristotle joined _________’s Academy in ______ BCE, and remained there until his mentor’s death ____ years later.
Plato, 367, 20
The large photo in the text is that of a human __________ as observed by Robert Hooke.
louse
Joseph Fourier also identified the _____________ effect, realizing that the Earth is ______ because ________ in the atmosphere trap heat from the _______ and prevent it from escaping.
greenhouse, warm, gases, Sun
The Planck length is the smallest unit of ______________ possible and equals ______ × 10⁻³⁵ __________.
measurement, 1.6, meters
Fleming discovered __________ __________ (full Latin name) in the year ________ in an abandoned dish in his laboratory. *Penicillium notatum, 1928
Penicillium notatum, 1928
In 1942, Franklin became a researcher for BCURA, the ________ ______ __________ ___________ ___________ in the year
British Coal Utilization Research Association
In Alexandria, Archimedes writes the works ___ _____ ____________ ___ __ _________, and ____ __________ _________.
On the Measurement of a Circle, On Floating Bodies
Robert Hooke discovered that the ___________ and __________ of a spring is proportional to the __________ applied.
extension, compression, force
Pierre-Simon Laplace proved that the self-correcting “______________” noted by _________ (and put down to divine intervention) are in fact, also made by __________.
perturbations, Newton, gravity
Spain’s ________ ___________ holds __________ items in the “Cajal Legacy.”
Cajal Institute, 30,218
Penicillin was finally made on a large scale and was highly effective against a wide range of bacteria, including ___________, ______________, _____________, _____________, ______________ (name the five balloons).
scarlet fever, pneumonia, syphilis, tonsillitis, meningitis
DNA bases include, _________, _________, __________, and __________ (spell the words out).
adenine, thymine, guanine, cytosine
Eratosthenes drew _____ of the world, calculated the distance from the _______ to the ______, devised a reliable method for finding ________ numbers, and coined the term “___________.”
maps, Earth to the Sun, prime numbers, geography
In 1676, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek recorded the first view of ______-_______ organisms in _______. This was the first recorded view of __________.
single-celled, water, bacteria
Christian Konrad Sprengel published his observations, including the fact that insects carry ______ from the _______ parts of flowers to ________ parts, and that these insects are attracted by the color of a flower’s _________ (________-producing organs).
pollen, male, female, nectaries, nectar
Paul Dirac read a paper about _______ mechanics written by ______________. The paper described how particles _________ from one quantum state to another.
matrix, Heisenberg, jump
Noether was awarded the prestigious ___________ __________ __________ Prize in mathematics in the year _______. Ackerman-Teubner Memorial, 1932.
Ackerman-Teubner Memorial, 1932
On what date did Crick and Watson co-publish their landmark paper in Nature, revealing the structure of DNA?
April 25, 1953