Science Flashcards
Name this liquid that contains both a solvent and a solute.
Solution
Who invented the safety razor?
Gilette
Who invented the electric razor?
Schick
Who invented the gas burner?
Bunson
Who invented dynamite?
Nobel
Who invented the electric battery?
Watt
Who improved the steam engine?
Watt
Who invented the moving assembly line?
Ford
Who invented the first successful steamboat?
Fulton
Who invented the revolver?
Colt
(287-212 BC)
Greek mathematician and inventor; remembered for supposedly crying “eureka” (I have found it) after discovering his namesake Principle of buoyancy
Archimedes
(1776-1856)
Italian physicist. the value of the number of molecules in one mole, now known as Avogadro’s number 6.022x10^23
Avogadro
(1847-1922)
Scottish-American inventor of the telephone (1876).
Alexander Bell Graham
Swiss scientific and mathematical family
Bernoulli
(1885-1962)
Danish physicist, his model of the atom held that electrons travel in orbits around the nucleus
Bohr, Niels
(1736-1806)
French physicist. Known for his work on electricity and magnetism.
Coulomb, Charles-Augustin de
(1916-2004)
English scientist. With James Watson, he elucidated the structure and function of the DNA double helix.
Francis Crick
Name the 2 renowned French scientists known for their work in radioactivity.
Marie Curie and Pierre
Austrian physicist, his namesake effect is the change in frequency of a wave for an observer moving relative to its source.
Christian Doppler
Who invented the incandescent lamp?
Thomas Edison
(1791-1867)
English scientist and developer of the first dynamo, the precursor of the modern electrical generator.
Michael Farraday
(1777-1855)
German scientist, namesake distribution is also known as the bell curve
Carl Friedrich Gauss
(1656-1742)
English astronomer who became the first to predict the return of a comet in 1759
Edmund Halley
(1901-76)
German physicist. Famous for his uncertainty principle that states that it is impossible to accurately determine both the position and momentum of a subatomic particle at the same time
Werner Heisenberg
(1857-94)
German physicist. In honor of his work with electromagnetic waves, the unit of frequency, the Hertz, is named for him.
Hertz
(460-370 B.C.)
Greek physician regarded as the “Father of medicine.” He taught medicine based on objective observation and deductive reasoning. The Hippocratic oath, an ethical code formulated in ancient Greece, is still administered in medical colleges to this day.
Hippocrates
(1642-1727)
English mathematician and scientist. In the 1660s he discovered the law of universal gravitation, discovered that white light is composed of every color in the spectrum, and began to develop calculus. His monumental work, Principia Mathematica (1687)
Isaac Newton
Who invented the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney
Who originally discovered the electron and likened an atom’s structure to the “plum pudding model”
J. J. Thomson
What nebula is named after this animal? The galaxy’s name is Dungeness.
Crab
