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Thomas Young showed for the first time that light could also behave like this.
What is a wave?
100
Ratio of the circumference of a circle to it's diameter.
What is pi?
100
This Nobel laureate is famous for his uncertainty principle.
Who is Heisenberg?
100
This man was arguably the most important Renaissance artist
Who is Leonardo da Vinci.
100
This recently discovered particle was the last predicted one of the Standard Model.
What is the Higgs?
200
Known for his discovery of radioactivity.
Who is Henry Becquerel?
200
This theorem relates the square of the hypotenuse to the square of the other sides in a right triangle.
What is the the Pythagorean theorem?
200
Famous for his diagrams, this US physicist shared the Nobel Prize for his contributions to Quantum Electrodynamics.
Who is Richard Feynman?
200
This painting by Edvard Munch shows a man with an antagonized expression, or a college student during finals.
What is What is The Scream
200
These waves were hard to detect, but were predicted ever since Einstein's general relativity.
What are gravitational waves?
300
Weighing the world was no problem for this physicist.
Who is Cavendish?
300
This device was often used as calculator of sorts for numerous ancient civilizations.
What is an abacus?
300
His 1905 discovery that light could also exhibit particle-like behavior earned Einstein his Nobel prize in 1921.
What is the photoelectric effect?
300
Vincent van Gogh painted this painting while he was a patient in a psychiatric hospital.
What is The Starry Night?
300
This probe measures slight variations in the microwave background radiation in the sky for about 9 years.
What is the WMAP?
400
Experiments on this particular type of electromagnetic radiation has led to the birth of quantum mechanics.
What is blackbody radiation?
400
These two mathematicians both developed calculus independently.
Who are Newton and Leibniz?
400
He is the first Nobel prize winner in 1901, for his discovery of X-rays.
Who is Roentgen?
400
This man was considered as a theft of the Mona Lisa
Who is Pablo Picasso?
400
Abbreviated as LHC, this is where we expect to find signs of "supersymmetry."
What is the Large Hadron Collider?
500
Spraying these oil droplets on electrically charged spheres were an ingenious way of measuring the electron's charge.
What are Millikan's droplets?
500
This two-part theorem links the derivative of a function with the function’s integral.
What is the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus?
500
He is the B in the BCS theory of superconductivity, also a two-time Nobel laureate.
Who is John Bardeen?
500
Watching time melt away is a past time when observing this painting by Salvador Dali.
What is The Persistence of Memory?
500
This is the statistical criterion used to quantify the confidence level of a new scientific discovery.
What is the 5-sigma?