History of Chemistry
This element was discovered in the Sun before it was found on Earth?
Helium
Winning for "their synthesis of new radioactive elements," the second woman to win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry was the daughter of two other Nobel prize winners. What was the family's surname?
Curie
An electron has a mass of what?
1/1836
These four elements make up approximately 95-96% of the human body's weight?
Oxygen, Carbon, Hydrogen, and Nitrogen
Wesleyan derives its name from this 18th centaury the Anglican clergyman who founded the Methodist movement.
John Wesley
This Greek philosopher proposed that all matter is composed of tiny, indivisible, and indestructible units called atoms.
Democritus
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to how many laureates from 1901-2025
200
These elements are named after planets.
Uranium (Uranus), Neptunium (Neptune), and Plutonium (Pluto)
This molecule binds to hemoglobin approximately 200 to 250 times more strongly than oxygen which can lead to rapid cellular hypoxia and death.
Carbon monoxide
This historical phrase used for Wesleyan, Amherst, and Williams was coined in the 1880s as an allusion to Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.
The Little Three
This medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy attempted to change less valuable metals into gold.
alchemy
Five people have won two Nobel Prizes, but Linus Pauling is the only one to have won two that were not shared with anyone else. He won the first for Chemistry, but for what other non-science field did he win his second?
Nobel Peace Prize
In 1869, this person was credited with publishing the first periodic table.
Dmitri Mendeleev
This lipid is known for storing energy in the body.
Triglycerides
The year Wesleyan permanently become coeducation was _____.
1970
In 1904, after his discovery of the electron, the plum pudding model depicted atoms as uniform, positively charged spheres with negatively charged electrons embedded within them, like plums in a pudding.
J.J. Thomson
This person is the oldest Nobel Laurette for the development of lithium-ion batteries.
John Goodenough
Which letter is not used in any element symbol?
J
This is the normal pH range for human blood.
7.35–7.45
This Wesleyan Alumni graduated in 1993 and was the showrunner of Game of Thrones (2011-2019)
D.B. Weiss
"No" is the negative-sounding chemical symbol that represents what element that was first produced in the U.S. in 1958? The element is named after a man who more famously lent his name to a series of prizes.
Nobelium (Alfred Nobel)
The first Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded in 1901 to this person for his discovery of the laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure in solutions.
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff,
This is the rarest naturally occurring element on the planet.
Astatine
This means an enzyme found in the body that breaks down starch and glycogen into simple sugars as part of the process of digestion.
Amylase
This U.S. President received an honorary Doctor of Law degree from Wesleyan University in 2008, during the university's 176th Commencement.
Barack Obama