Academic Team Science People

bateson

this scientist coined the term "genetics"

alan shepard

this person was in the freedom 7 mercury capsule and was first american in space.

penzias

this american physicist discovered CMBR with Robert Wilson and received the 1978 Nobel prize in physics

hofstadter

this physicist studied electron scattering in atomic nuclei and made an apparatus to study the internal structures of nuclei

edward teller

this physicist is known as the father of the hydrogen bomb

isaac newton

this scientist wrote principia describing the laws of physics and opticks which describes the color theory of light.

villard

this scientist discovered gamma radiation

alhazen

known as the Father of Optics, he was the greatest scientist of the middle ages.

ed southern

this scientist developed southern blotting

craig venter

this scientist independently helped sequence the human genome and revolutionized sequencing with his speed.

francis collins

this scientist helped discover the gene responsible for cystic fibrosis and headed the governmental arm of the human genome project

john glenn

this person was in the Friendship 7 Mercury capsule and was first american to orbit earth.

scott carpenter

this person was in the aurora 7 mercury capsule.

gus grissom

first person to go into space twice but died in apollo 1

irene curie

this scientist won the nobel prize for being the first person to create artificial radioactivity

rachel carson

this person realized the global dangers of pesticide abuse (DDT). Wrote Silent Spring and the Sea Around Us

maurice wilkins

this scientist used xray crystallography to study the structure of DNA. they worked with Franklin to create a picture of the DNA molecule

kornberg

this scientist discovered DNA polymerase

mcclintock

this scientist studied cytogenetics and discovered transposons and jumping genes

rosalind franklin

this scientist researched the structure of the tobacco mosaic virus and used x-ray diffraction to determine the structure of DNA by taking "Photo 51"

hodgekin

this scientist used x-ray crystallography to determine the structures of penicillin, insulin, and vitamin B12.

scott kelly

this astronaut and ISS crew member lived one year in space and was the first sibling in space with his brother Mark

fritz zwicky

this scientist predicted dark matter

e o wilson

this scientist coined the term biodiversity, studied ants, and wrote a book called Biophilia on the meaning of life

max born

this scientist introduced a statistical interpretation of the wave function

hans bethe

this german american physicist played a key role in calculating the critical mass for the atomic bomb

perlmutter

this astrophysicist was the 2011 Nobel Prize co-recipient for proving the expansion of the Universe. he proved strong evidence of dark energy.

lyell

this geologist discredited the long-standing view that the earth's surface had been formed by short-lived cataclysms, such as biblical floods and earthquakes.

hutton

father of geology

giuseppe piazzi

this scientist discovered the first asteroid and now dwarf planet, Ceres

cousteau

this documentarian invented the aqualung and traveled around the globe in his ship the Calypso

branson

founder of virgin galactic and virgin atlantic

dorothy vaughan

first African American woman supervisor at NASA

katherine johnson

this mathematician of NASA did calculations for manned space flight, including Apollo 11

chandrasekhar

this theorist found the namesake upper limit on the mass of white dwarfs based on electron degeneracy

kekule

this chemist day-dreamed of a snake eating its own tail to discover the structure of benzene. father of organic chemistry, known for discovering the tetravalent nature of carbon bonding

lowell

this astronomer hypothesized that lines criss-crossing mars were canals dug by martians

de vries

this geneticist invented the term "mutation" and proposed the mutation theory of evolution

al battani

this arab astronomer discovered the length of a solar year and corrected ptolemy's calculations

sturtevant

this student of morgan first created linkage maps using segregating traits in fruit flies

von braun

this german engineer became the US's top rocket designer and was the director of the V2 missile

schiaparelli

this italian astronomer first noted lines called canali (channels) on the surface of Mars. it was mistranslated as canals, implying life on Mars

jim lovell

commander of apollo 13 mission

emil fischer

this scientist proposed the lock and key model of enzymes.

otto hahn

this german chemist is the father of nuclear chemistry and discovered nuclear fission

hilleman

this scientist created the measles, mumps, and chicken pox vaccine

sabin

this scientist created the oral polio vaccine

ed white

this astronaut was the first american to walk in space

michael collins

this astronaut was the command module pilot of apollo 11. he never walked on the moon

shatner

this former actor played captain kirk from star trek and became the oldest person in space at 90 in 2021 aboard the blue origin new shepard

eddington

this physicist observed a total solar eclipse to verify general relativity and suggested that stars fused hydrogen to helium

bose

this physicist is best known for his work on quantum mechanics and developed the foundation for his namesake statistics and theory of the namesake condensate.

morgan

biologist best known for fruit fly genetics

haldane

this scientist set the groundwork for modern evolutionary synthesis with his namesake rule

mary jackson

first African American woman engineer at NASA

mae jemison

first African American woman in space

segre

this nobel prize in physics laureate discovered the antiproton

schwinger

this physicist and nobel prize in physics laureate did fundamental work in QED

gould

this harvard biologist developed the theory of punctuated equilibrium to explain the varied rate of evolution

sewall wright

this scientist discovered genetic drift

gellman

this physicist discovered quarks, described the property of strangeness, and organized mesons/baryons using eightfold way

gamow

this physicist was the first to suggest that the universe began as fundamental particles which were then fused together into heavier elements during the Big Bang. he calculated the remnant energy from the big bang

sudarshan

this physicist proposed existence of tachyons and worked in quantum optics

robert edwards

this scientist created in-vitro fertilization

doudna

this scientist led the CRISPR revolution in biotechnology

margulis

this scientist came up with endosymbiotic theory

mullis

this scientist developed the PCR technique

joan roughgarden

this evolutionary ecologist has worked on evolutionary adaptations to changing environments and community ecology theory over the last 30 years

ernst mayr

this biologist came up with the biological species concept that species are groups of interbreeding natural populations, which are reproductively isolated from other such groups

hillis

this biologist studied molecular evolution, phylogeny, and vertebrate systematics and created the namesake plot depiction of the evolutionary tree of life.

e o lawrence

this physicist won the 1939 nobel prize for inventing the cyclotron

szilard

this scientist conceived the nuclear chain reaction and patented a nuclear fission reactor

roentgen

this scientist discovered x-rays

becquerel

this scientist discovered radioactivity when he left a piece of radium in his pocket

berzelius

this scientist Introduced letters to symbolize elements and made the law of definite proportions

chien shiung wu

this first lady of physics confirmed and refined Fermi's theory of radioactive beta decay

gordon cooper

this sixth american astronaut took the final mercury flight.

christa macauliffe

this high school teacher was the first American civilian selected to go into space but died in the explosion of Challenger

lev landau

this russian scientist developed a model of magnetism for solids and developed the theory of fermi fluids, superconductivity, and won the nobel prize for superfluids

lavoisier

this "father of modern chemistry" disproved phlogiston theory, named oxygen and hydrogen, and made the law of conservation of mass.

georg ernst stahl

this scientist made phlogiston Theory that was later disproved.

mosely

this scientist arranged elements by atomic number

richard dawkins

this biologist made The Selfish Gene which introduced the gene centred view of evolution.

niels bohr

this scientist was one of the few to prove einstein wrong

louis pasteur

this scientist demonstrated molecular chirality, namesake heat sterilization of liquids, and discovered rabies vaccine

rubin

this scientist studied galaxy rotation to confirm the existence of dark matter.

hooke

this scientist invented the microscope, wrote micrographia, and discovered cells

schwann

this scientist defined cells as the basic unit of life, disproved spontaneous generation, and discovered pepsin

penrose

this scientist worked with stephen hawking to define black hole singularities and model them on his namesake diagram. He won the 2020 nobel prize in physics

jack swigert

this american NASA astronaut was the command module pilot of Apollo 13 in 1970

jean louis pons

this self taught french astronomer was the greatest visual comet discoverer of all time, finding 37 comets.

alan hale

this scientist found comet hale-bopp

john sulston

this biologist won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the cell lineage and genome of c elegans in 2002 with his colleagues Sydney Brenner and Robert Horvitz

svante paabo

this founder of paleogenetics won the 2022 nobel prize in medicine for studying the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution

ada lovelace

this first computer programmer worked on, but didnt create the analytical engine

charles babbage

this mathematician originated the concept of a programmable computer in the early 19th century. he made the analytical engine and theorized the difference engine.