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This physicist searches for dark matter using the LUX and LZ experiments. She also teaches Modern Physics at Penn State.
Who is Carmen Carmona?
100
This technique developed by Newton made modern physics possible.
What is calculus?
100
This physicist was awarded his Nobel Prize for his discovery of the photoelectric effect
Who is Albert Einstein?
100
This mission brought the first men to the Moon.
What is Apollo 11?
100
This old woman has always hated it.
What is chocolate?
200
This experimental particle astrophysicist researches ultra-high energy neutrinos and cosmic rays. She also studies radio detection techniques.
Who is Stephanie Wissel?
200
This principle revolutionized theoretical physics.
What is the principle of least action?
200
This physicist was awarded his Nobel Prize for his discovery of energy quanta.
Who is Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck?
200
This German scientist was the father of NASA (and the V2 missile).
Who is Wernher Von Braun?
200
This is a common phrase said by Muscle Man in Regular Show.
What is "my mom"?
300
This theoretical physicist is one of the founders of loop quantum gravity, a theory built upon metric canonical variables named after him.
Who is Abhay Ashtekar?
300
This algebraic object represents all of the symmetry a system has.
What is a group?
300
This physicist was awarded the first ever nobel prize in physics for his, at the time, namesake rays.
Who is Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen?
300
This was the first woman in space.
Who is Valentina Tereshkova?
300
This song saves Earth from Giant Heads in Rick and Morty.
What is Get Schwifty?
400
This experimental physicist’s research involves experiments with laser-cooled atoms in optical lattices and other light traps. He uses cold, trapped atoms to test fundamental symmetries.
Who is David Weiss?
400
This object is responsible for the connection between classical and quantum physics.
What is a Lie Bracket?
400
This physicist was awarded the Nobel Prize for contributing in the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star and came to visit Penn State in Fall 2019.
Who is Didier Queloz?
400
This year is when Elon Musk’s rocket company was founded.
When is 2002?
400
This is Jonny’s best friend in Ed Edd n Eddy.
Who is Plank?
500
This theoretical physicist and Polish Science Foundation Fellow specializes in elementary particle physics, phenomenology of strong interactions, and hadronic interactions at high energies. She currently researches diffraction in an Electron Ion Collider.
Who is Anna Statso?
500
Nobody likes this theory but it was popularized in physics by Robert Greoch.
What is Category Theory?
500
This physicist was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for his discovery of the diffraction of x-rays by crystals.
Who is Max von Laue?
500
This astronaut drove across country in a diaper in order to attack an Air Force Captain over a lover’s feud.
Who is Lisa Nowak?
500
This drink is frequently mispronounced by Captain Zapp Brannigan in the show Futurama.