Physicists Flashcards

(C) denotes chemist as well

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A

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Amedeo Avogadro (C)

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B

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Alexander Graham Bell
Niels Bohr (C)
Tycho Brahe
Elizabeth Blackburn

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C

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Marie Curie (C)

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D

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Charles Darwin
Nancy Dowdy

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E

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Albert Einstein
Thomas Edison
Helen Edwards

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F

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Ben Franklin
Rosalind Franklin (C)
Michael Faraday (C)
Enrico Fermi

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G

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Galileo Galillei
Hans Geiger
Pamela Gay

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H

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Robert Hooke
Stephen Hawking

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I

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Ernst Ising

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J

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Harold Jeffries
Irene Joliot-Curie
Sir James Jeans

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K

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Johannes Kepler
Marcia Keith

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L

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Robert Leighton
Hedy Lamarr (actress - invented idea behind wifi, bluetooth & GPS)

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M

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Brian May (Queen’s guitarist)
Ernst Mach
Lise Meitner

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N

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Isaac Newton
Ida Noddack (C)

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O

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Robert Oppenheimer
Georg Ohm
Yuri Oganessian

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P

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Louis Pasteur (C)
Max Planck
Blaise Pascal
Melba Phillips

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Q

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Helen Quinn

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R

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Ernest Rutherford (C)
Lord Rayleigh
Sally Ride

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S

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Carl Sagan (astrophysicist)
Erwin Schrodinger (quantum theory)

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T

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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Nikola Tesla
Doris Taylor
Valerie Thomas

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U

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Stanislaw Ulam
Harold Urey (C)

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V

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Alessandro Volta

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W

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Alfred Wegener
James Watt
Sarah Whiting

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X

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Basilis Xanthopoulos
Xide Xie (Chinese woman)

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Y

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Hubert Yockey (Manhattan Project)
Rosalyn Yalow (medical physicist)

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Z

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Gueseppe Zamboni
Paola Zizzi (Quantum physics)