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100

Shout out to Robert Noyce for contributing to our billion-dollar endowment. The name of this company is displayed on the processing-chip he invented.

What is Intel?

100

This chemist was the first female to win any Nobel prize. She won Nobel prizes in both chemistry and physics for her work with radioactivity.

Who is Marie Currie?

100

By some, he is thought of as the scariest organic chemistry professor. By others, he is thought of as a star track alumni of Loras College.

Who is Professor Sieck?

100

The unit of mass.

What is kilogram (kg)?

100

Focus on measurement and instrumentation

What is analytical chemistry?

200

The type of tree on display near the west doors.

What is an elm?

200

This female biochemist contributed essential data to Watson and Crick, who ended up winning the nobel prize for their theory that DNA forms a double helix.

Who is Rosalind Franklin?

200

This chemistry professor heads the Environmental Studies concentration.

Who is Professor Graham?

200

The unit of temperature

What is Kelvin (K)?

200

Focus on carbon-containing compounds

What is Organic Chemistry?

300

Legend says Robert Noyce stole and butchered this animal.

What is a pig?

300

This biochemist co-authored an equation taught in every introductory biochem class. Her name is the latter part of the hyphenated name of the famous equation.

Who is Maud Menten?

300

This chemistry professor can not get enough of Grinnell. He is a Grinnell alum, and he will tell you about courses he took in his undergrad with current Grinnell professors, such as Professor Trimmer, if you ask!

Who is Professor Leggans?

300

The unit of current

What is ampere (A)?

300

Focus on organic processes in organisms

What is Biochemistry?

400

This lab is the only one that still has a slate chalkboard.

What is the Instrumental/Pchem Lab?

400

Now one of the leading treatments for leprosy, the "Ball method" was only attributed to this chemist after her death because she was not an author on the original paper.  

Who is Alice Ball?

400

This professor named their cats after Mars rovers.

Who is Professor Marzluff

400

The unit of amount

What is mole (mol)?

400

Focus on the synthesis and behaviors of metals and organometallic compounds

What is Inorganic Chemistry?

500

This is the research Tom Cech earned his Nobel Prize in.

What is Catalytic properties of RNA?

500

In 1947, this scientist became the first black woman to earn a PhD in chemistry.

Who is Marie Daly?

500

This professor refuses to enter the NMR lab.

Whos is Professor Sharpe?

500

The unit of brightness

What is candela (cd)?

500

Focus on chemical systems in terms of the principles, practices, and concepts of physics

What is Physical Chemistry?