Nobel Prizes
Often known as the father of atomic physics, Ernest Rutherford claimed he was a bit “startled” at receiving the 1908 Nobel Prize not for physics, but for this discipline.
Chemistry
THIS PHYSICIST DISCOVERED TWO ELEMENTS, FOUNDED TWO MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTERS, WON TWO NOBEL PRIZES AND DISCOVERED RADIOACTIVITY
MARIE CURIE
What are the four languages your TA says he speaks?
Portuguese, English, Italian, Spanish
The element discovered at ORNL
Tennessine
The following device "makes time travel possible" for the Delorean in the 'Back to the Future' Series
Flux Capacitor
This parody of the Nobel Prizes, are presented by Nobel laureates in a ceremony at the Sanders Theater, Harvard University,
Ig Nobel Prize
This famous natural philosopher (or physicist at the time) was a firm believer in alchemy. One of his greatest ambitions was to find the philosopher’s stone: the secret to turning common metals into gold.
Issac Newton
What was your TA's Master's Dissertation about?
GR, Black holes, Extra Dimensions
This particle discovered earlier this decade is often called the 'God particle'
Higgs Boson
42, the "Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything", calculated by an enormous supercomputer named Deep Thought over a period of 7.5 million years is in this book.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Mathematics does not have a Nobel Prize, but there is a medal awarded for outstanding mathematics research done by scientists under the age of 40. What is the name of this medal?
Fields Medal
A finger of this famous natural philosopher/physicist is allegedly on display in the History of Science Museum in Florence, Italy
Galileo
This supercomputer, currently the fastest in the world, is housed at Oak Ridge National Lab
Summit
Stephen Hawking is famous for discovering that _____________ emit radiation.
Black Holes
What movie actually used physics model computational methods to predict how a hypothetical wormhole would be seen from a distance?
Interstellar
In 1921, Einstein received the Nobel prize, not for the theory of relativity, but “for his services to theoretical physics, and especially his discovery of”… this.
Photo Electric Effect
This physicist had an unusual devotion to… pigeons. Also, he was an inventor, currently mostly remembered for his studies in magnetism, and there is a number of conspiracy theories about him.
Nikola Tesla
What federal government initiative led to Oak Ridge be known as the "Secret City"?
Manhattan Project
This ancient Greek Philosopher, credited with major contributions in geometry and astronomy is also credited for identifying the morning and evening star to be the same (which was later discovered to be planet Venus).
Pythagoras
Edward Lorenz' idea of linking this animal to changes in the weather became the basis of chaos theory.
Butterfly
The 1923 Nobel Prize was awarded to Robert Millikan, then a researcher at the University of Chicago for his oil drop experiment. He discovered the elementary ____________ . What discovery is he credited with?
Discovering the elementary charge/Charge of an electron
This 16th-century Danish astronomer was a nobleman known for his eccentric life and death. He lost his nose in a duel in college and wore a prosthetic metal one ever after
Tycho Brahe
Why is gravity lower in the equator as opposed to the poles.
Coriolis Effect (because Earth rotates)
THESE WERE DETECTED BY
LIGO AFTER
TWO BLACK HOLES COLLIDED ONE BILLION LIGHT-YEARS AGO
Gravitational Waves
What is a SIMPLE physics concept that is wrong with the explosions that happen in Star Wars (and many sci-fi movies of the genre). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYTIzUfv__g
Sound does not propagate in vacuum.