Famous Scientists
Perhaps the most famous scientist of all, known for his theory of relativity and crazy hairdo.
Who is Albert Einstein?
The center of the cell that holds DNA.
What is the nucleus?
A cell that does not have a nucleus.
What is a prokaryotic cell?
The largest planet in the solar system.
What is Jupiter?
What the Renaissance means in French.
What is rebirth?
A scientist who studied motion and is famous for inventing the laws of gravity.
Who is Isaac Newton?
The preserved remains of a once living being.
What is a fossil?
A green pigment that found within the chloroplasts in a plant cell.
What is chlorophyll?
Who was Aristotle?
A Renaissance thinker who is famous for creating the Mona Lisa.
Who was Leonardo Da Vinci?
A scientist who is also known as the Father of Modern Philosophy.
Who is Renè Descartes?
The hardest substance on Earth.
What is a diamond?
A Dutch microbiologist who discovered germs.
Who is Anton Van Leeuwenhoek?
An astronomer famed for suggesting the heliocentric theory.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
A rich family that ruled the city of Florence and had great wealth and power.
Who were the Medici?
The first woman to earn the Nobel Peace Prize who was also a renowned scientist.
Who was Marie Curie?
The only metal liquid at room temperature.
What is mercury?
The four chemicals that make up DNA: adenine, thymine, cytosine, _____.
What is guanine?
An astronomer who was sentenced to house arrest for contradicting the Church's wisdom of the apparently geocentric world.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
A sculptor who is famous for creating a statue of David from the bible who is 17 feet tall.
Who is Michelangelo?
A French alchemist and scientist who was also a character in Harry Potter.
Who was Nicholas Flamel?
How fast gravity causes something to fall.
What is 22 miles per hour?
A eukaryotic domain in a three-domain system.
What is eukarya?
The name Johannes Kepler gave his "laws".
What are the celestial harmonies?
A 15th-century Florentine architect and sculptor, often credited with perfecting linear perspective as well as designing a dome without scaffolding.
Who is Filippo Brunelleschi?