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History of LU Sciences
WIS Part I
Branches of Chemistry
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NS
100
This Lawrence graduate was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2009.
Who is Thomas Steitz
100
This 2016 movie is about three African-American women who worked at NASA.
What is Hidden Figures
100
This branch of chemistry deals with carbon-based molecules.
What is Organic Chemistry
100
This is the inclination to see past events as been more predictable then they actually were. Ex. “I knew all along”
What is hindsight bias
100
This division of the autonomic nervous system is responsible for the fight or flight response
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
200
This building was built in 1891, but demolished in the early 1960s to make room for Youngchild.
What is the Underwood Observatory
200
This woman won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903 and for Chemistry in 1911?
Who is Marie Curie
200
Precision, patience and persistence are required to succeed in this lab-centric course.
What is Analytical Chemistry
200
This is an earned or unearned benefit that you ether work for or society bestows upon you that is based on arbitrary characteristic such as: skin color, ethnic background, gender presentation, religious affiliation etc.
What is privilege
200
This neurotransmitter is implicated in addiction for it's involvement in reward pathways
What is dopamine
300
A geology class field trip bought this back to Lawrence in 1895.
What is the rock
300
She was the first person to discover the process of fission.
Who is Lisa Meitner
300
This quantity is responsible for all the information describing an electron.
What is a wavefunction
300
The English chemist and x-ray crystallographer who discover the double helix structure of deoxyribonucleicacid.
Who is Rosalind Franklin
300
This type of drug targets the receptors of a certain monoamine neurotransmitter, preventing it from being recycled in the neuron
What is an SSRI
400
Construction of Youngchild Hall began in this year.
What is 1963
400
She verified the existence of dark matter.
Who is Vera Rubin
400
Kari Mullis, known for his controversial views on such things as hallucinogenic drug use, developed this commonly used biochemistry laboratory method.
What is PCR
400
This was a study that involved 600 black men in the United States (399 of whom had syphilis) without the benefit of informed consent. This study gave the men free medical examinations, meals and burial insurance but withheld the proper treatment needed to cure their illness.
What is the Tuskegee Syphilis Study
400
This central nervous system disorder is correlated with decreased dopamine
What is Parkinson's
500
This was Lawrence’s first computer, installed in Youngchild in 1964
What is an IBM 1620
500
This woman was the first African American supervisor of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics?
Who is Dorothy Vaughan
500
This group of inorganic compounds includes cisplatin, a chemotherapy drug.
What are coordination complexes
500
This is a psychological technique that is used to undermine someone's subjective experience of a specific event or behavior to the point that the person is convinced that it never happened
What is gaslighting
500
These neural connections are involved in daydreaming and mind-wandering
What is the Default Mode Network