Element-ary
Physicists
New Clear
Maths
Unchanging
100

These elements are typically inert, having full valence shells

What are noble gases?

100

This guy developed the first working theory of gravity

Who is Isaac Newton?

100
This is the largest particle accelerator in the world

What is the LHC at CERN?

100

This operation multiplies a value by itself a set number of times

What is an exponent?

100

~3.14159265

What is pi (π)?

200

These are the seven diatomic elements (must name at least 5 for credit)

What are Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Fluorine, Chlorine, Bromine, and Iodine?

200

This guy, with very similar first and last names, made contributions to understanding of mechanics and our solar system

Who is Galileo Galilei?

200

This is a method by which excited nuclei release energy but not mass

What is gamma decay?

200

This operator is used to evaluate gradients, curls, and divergences

What is the del operator?

200

~2.998 E+8 m/s

What is the speed of light in vacuum (c)?

300

This element is notable for having the highest melting point and lowest thermal expansion coefficient of any pure element

What is tungsten (W)?

300

This guy proved the existence of the neutron

Who is James Chadwick?

300

This nucleon thought to be the only stable hadron

What is the proton?
300

This reward, exclusive to early-career mathematicians, is widely considered to be the most prestigious in maths

What is the Fields Medal?

300

~6.6743 E-11 m3/kg*s2 

What is the gravitational constant (G)?

400

This element, atomic number 43, is the lightest nucleus without a stable isotope.

What is Technetium (Tc)?

400

The plum pudding model was most notably proposed by this physicist

Who is J.J. Thomson?

400

This method is a semi-classical approximation of the wave function

What is the WKB approximation?

400
This value is considered the "smallest infinity", and represents the set of natural numbers

What is aleph-null (ℵ0)?

400

4.135667 E-15 eV⋅s

or 6.62607 E−34 J⋅s

What is planck's constant (h)?

500

Alongside salt, these two elements form the Tria Prima of alchemy

What are mercury and sulfur?

500

This guy renamed the neutrino from its prior name, the neutron, after the discovery of the neutron as a nucleon

Who is Enrico Fermi?

500

This model explains portions of nuclear stability using concepts of volume, surface, and coulomb energies

What is the liquid drop model?

500

This thinker invented the Cartesian coordinate system

Who is Rene Descartes?

500

~1.618

What is the golden ratio (φ)?