Physicists

Question 0

Wave-particle duality, Nobel Prize, characteristic wavelengths, endorsed by Einstein

Answer 0

Louis de Broglie

Question 1

Gold foil experiment, atom model, electron frequencies, Manhattan Project

Answer 1

Niels Bohr

Question 2

Annus mirabalis, revolutionized modern physics, photoelectric effect, Brownian motion, special relativity, general relativity

Answer 2

Albert Einstein

Question 3

Main Manhattan Project contributor, Pauli exclusion principle, ????-Dirac statistics, neutrino

Answer 3

Enrico Fermi

Question 4

Path inegral formulation, quantum electrodynamics, Nobel Prize, bongo player

Answer 4

Richard Feynman

Question 5

Big Bang theory, cosmic microwave background radiation, no Nobel

Answer 5

George Gamow

Question 6

Matrix interpretation, uncertainty principle, Nobel Prize for allotropic hydrogen forms

Answer 6

Werner Heisenberg

Question 7

Ultraviolet catastrophe, Law of Radiation, quanta

Answer 7

Max Planck

Question 8

Gold foil experiment, discovered nucleus and electrons, Nobel Prize, discovered carbon decay, carbon dating

Answer 8

Ernest Rutherford

Question 9

Quantum theorist, questioned Copenhagen interpretation, cat, partial differential equations

Answer 9

Erwin Schrödinger

Question 10

Basis for nuclear and particle physics

Answer 10

Marie and Pierre Curie

Question 11

Generalization of quantum theory to relativistic speeds

Answer 11

Paul Dirac

Question 12

Predictec quarks

Answer 12

Murray Gell-Mann

Question 13

Determined electron charge

Answer 13

Robert Millikan

Question 14

Manhattan project, stripped of clearance during McCarthy-era Red Scare

Answer 14

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Question 15

Exclusion principle

Answer 15

Wolfgang Pauli