Crazy Physics People
This physicist is known for both his dedication to precise astronomical data and bizarre lifestyle, including keeping a pet moose that would attend parties with him.
Who is Tycho Brahe?
What course of study deals with relating one or more unknown functions and their derivatives.
What is Differential Equations?
NASA
What is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration?
Height of Mount Everest in feet.
1e4 (29,032)
The name for factory workers who worked with painting watch dials to glow in the dark with a radioactive substance (also a play)!
Who are the ‘Radium girls’?
This inventor and physicist had a strong fondness for pigeons, keeping them in his house and also claiming he had fallen in love with one of them.
Who is Nikola Tesla?
What branch of mathematics is concerned with events and numerical descriptions of how likely they are to occur.
What is Probability Theory?
DNA
What is Deoxyribonucleic acid?
Number of seconds in a day.
1e4 (86400)
This woman is seen as the founder of modern computing and wrote one of the first machine algorithms.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
This mathematician famous for this right triangle equation allegedly avoided eating fava beans because they believed the beans contained the souls of the dead.
Who is Pythagoras?
Field of math that works with vectors and matrices and their transformations.
What is linear algebra?
Laser
What is light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation?
Number of students who ear a physics PhD each year.
1e4 (~2000 according to most recent AIP data)
This woman is an English primatologist, anthropologist, and zoologist known for her work on chimpanzees.
Who is Jane Goodall?
This physicist who developed the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics later insisted that his remains be thrown in the trash.
Who is Hugh Everett III?
What branch of mathematics is utilized heavily to describe the nature of curvature of space-time within general relativity.
What is Differential Geometry?
LIGO
What is Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory?
A planck length.
1e-34 (6.29921e-34)
This marine biologist and environmentalist wrote the book Silent Spring which is seen as the beginning of the modern environmental movement.
Who is Rachel Carson?
This theoretical physicist was said to be cursed, as every time he walked into a room, an experiment would fail.
Who is Wolfgang Pauli?
What is the name of the one holed object ubiquitous within topology?
Donut/Torus OR Mug
NMR
Nuclear magnetic resonance
Size of wikipedia in English in GB (compressed, without images)
1e1 (24GB)
This person was the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States.
Who is Elizabeth Blackwell?