Quizbowl Scientists I

Seven Bridge of Konigsberg

Leonhard Euler

Faces - edges + vertices = 2

Leonhard Euler

Polynomials related by Bernoulli numbers

Leonhard Euler

Caltech physicist

Richard Feynman

Dirac fields

Richard Feynman

advisor named Wheel

Richard Feynman

Quantum system calculated by integrating all possible trajectories

Richard Feynman

theorized quarks and gluons in his parton model

Richard Feynman

Namesake radius

Niels Bohr

Namesake unit = charge of e- * h-bar

Niels Bohr

Namesake magneton

Niels Bohr

macro/microscopic systems

Niels Bohr

namesake demon

James Clerk Maxwell

Four electromagnetic equations

James Clerk Maxwell

Thermodynamic relations

James Clerk Maxwell

Discovered displacement current

James Clerk Maxwell

names an electromagnetic field’s stress tensor

James Clerk Maxwell

Ideal gas constant/Avogadro’s number

Ludwig Boltzmann

3/2 temperature * __ = average translational kinetic energy

Ludwig Boltzmann

H-theorem

Ludwig Boltzmann

probability distribution

Ludwig Boltzmann

Molecular chaos

Ludwig Boltzmann

formulas with Robert Cotes

Isaac Newton

Ringed pattern from convex lens

Isaac Newton

Namesake “cradle”

Isaac Newton

Law of partial pressures

John Dalton

“Billiard ball” atomic model

John Dalton

Law of Multiple Proportions

John Dalton

Rainfall = change in temp

John Dalton

Discovered butylene

John Dalton

Torbernite and pitchblende

Marie Curie

Currents produced by uranium

Marie Curie

Organized x-ray units for WWI

Marie Curie

“Father of modern chemistry”

Lavoisier

Law of conservation of mass

Lavoisier

“Elementary Treatise on Chemistry”

Lavoisier

Named hydrogen and oxygen

Lavoisier

Guinea pig in ice bath for respiration

Lavoisier

Sunlight focused on diamond for CO2

Lavoisier

Pressure inverse to volume

Robert Boyle

Ammonia deviates more than H gas

Robert Boyle

Experiment w/ J-shaped tube

Robert Boyle

“The Sceptical Chymist”

Robert Boyle

Theory w/ H+ concentration

Svante Arrhenius

CO2 = global warming

Svante Arrhenius

Temp reaction to reaction rate

Svante Arrhenius

“Society for Racial Hygiene”

Svante Arrhenius

Friendship with Darwin

Charles Lyell

Stratigraphy

Charles Lyell

Uniformitarianism

Charles Lyell

“The Geological Evidence of the Antiquity of Man”

Charles Lyell

Created dangerous strain of bees

Gregor Mendel

Carl Correns rediscovered work of

Gregor Mendel

Fruit flies

Thomas Hunt Morgan

"survival of the fittest"

Herbert Spencer

"Social Darwinism"

Herbert Spencer

“System of Synthetic Philosophy”

Herbert Spencer

integrated the scientific method with the search for natural law

Herbert Spencer

Namesake “ratchet” with Smoluchowski

Richard Feynman

Mark Kac

Richard Feynman

Experiment proved conservation of energy

James Joule

First law = heat radiated from resistor

James Joule

Namesake “magnetostriction”

James Joule

Namesake “energy” (highest-energy quantum state at 0)

Enrico Fermi

Namesake “golden rule”

Enrico Fermi

Namesake “first-order acceleration”

Enrico Fermi

Transition of eigenstates

Enrico Fermi

Event horizon of black hole

Stephen Hawking

Top-down cosmology w/ Hertog

Stephen Hawking

Lack of spacetime boundary w/ Hartle

Stephen Hawking

Temperature associated w/ Einstein field equations

Stephen Hawking

Rivalry w/ Newton

Robert Hooke

Coined term “cell”

Robert Hooke

Helped rebuild London after Great Fire

Robert Hooke

Discovered fission

Lisa Meitner

Discovered long-living isotope of protactinium

Lisa Meitner

Discovered Auger effect (ejection of electron)

Lisa Meitner

“rule of greatest simplicity”

John Dalton

Nobel Prize for electrolytic theory of dissociation

Svante Arrhenius

method of introducing a spectrum of auxiliary particles

Wolfgang Pauli

chiral phenomena

Wolfgang Pauli

symmetry under exchange

Wolfgang Pauli

spin-statistics theorem

Wolfgang Pauli

Conservation within beta decay via neutrino

Wolfgang Pauli

Jean Baptiste Perrin

Amedeo Avogadro

equal volumes of a gas and numbers of atoms

Amedeo Avogadro

Royal Navy ships

Sir Humphrey Davy

Mentor to Faraday

Sir Humphrey Davy

Namesake coal mine lamp

Sir Humphrey Davy

Discovered I and Cl

Sir Humphrey Davy

first to create incandescent light from electricity

Sir Humphrey Davy

First to note laughing gas as anesthetic

Sir Humphrey Davy

Studied “thoron” with Soddy

Ernest Rutherford

Transmutation of N to O misattributed to

Ernest Rutherford

Alpha and beta rays

Ernest Rutherford

Proposed wobble hypothesis

Francis Crick

Central dogma of molecular biology

Francis Crick

Adaptor hypothesis

Francis Crick

“Biochemical theology”

Francis Crick

Determined amino acid sequence of insulin

Frederick Sanger