scientist for midterm exam 1

Question 1

led the team that discovered nuclear fission of uranium, laid the scientific for nuclear energy and weapons, first women professor of physics in Germany, “I left Germany with the bomb in my purse”

Answer 1

Lise Meitner

Question 2

vice president of the General Mills Corporation; President, Executive Director, and Chairmen of the board of trustees of the General Mills foundation, first Native American women to to work for the US National Bureau of Standards, “I realized early in life that education is our best enabling resource… my stamina is inexhaustible”

Answer 2

Reatha King

Question 3

works on femtosecond (10^-15 second), 1999 Nobel prize for femtochemistry, first Egyptian to win a Nobel prize in science, “I have no political ambition, I want to serve in the field of science and die a scientist”

Answer 3

Ahmed Zewail

Question 4

awarded 1981 Nobel prize for method of predicting products of chemical reactions based on symmetry, isolobal analogy, hidden in school house attic for 18 months, “knowing without seeing is at the heart of chemistry”

Answer 4

Roald Hoffman

Question 5

introduced the word “radioactivity” and discovered how to isolate radioactive isotopes, discovered the elements polonium and radon, created mobile x rays during WW1, showed radiation killed tumor cells, “Have no fear of protection; you’ll never reach it”

Answer 5

Marie Sklodowska Curie

Question 6

study of the structure of biomolecules using X ray crystallography, now the most common techniques of structural biology and biochemistry, she determined a number of key structures including penicillin, vitamin B12, and insulin, awarded noble prize in chemistry in 1964, “I was captured for life by chemistry and crystals”

Answer 6

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

Question 7

discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole, 1995 Nobel prize winner for work on chlorlfourocarbons destroying the ozone, and work that led to the worldwide ban on these chemicals, first Mexican-born citizen to receive a Nobel prize in chemistry, “latino scientist”

Answer 7

Mario J. Molina-Pasquel Henríquez

Question 8

awarded 2014 Nobel prize in chemistry for development of super resolved fluorescence microscopy, first optical detection and spectroscopy of a single molecule, key idea was that normal limits of microscopy established can be overcome by fluorescence imaging, “my parents could have named me Sue”

Answer 8

William Esco Moerner