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Clue into Science set 3
Clue into Science set 3
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Practice identifying 20 Scientists.
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Persian astronomer, writer, poet and mathematician renowned who calculated an extremely accurate year length calendar.
Stephanie Kwolek
Johannes Kepler
Karl Landsteiner
Omar Khayyam
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Nobel Prize Winner for Medicine in 1930 for discovery of the major blood groups & development of the ABO system of blood
Stephanie Kwolek
Johannes Kepler
Omar Khayyam
Karl Landsteiner
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Chemist who is known for inventing Kevlar.
Karl Landsteiner
Johannes Kepler
Omar Khayyam
Stephanie Kwolek
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Greek physician known as the father of modern medicine.
Caroline Herschel
Hippocrates
William Harvey
Heinrich Hertz
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Mathematician who worked with NASA to calculate flight paths and launch angles for Mercury and Apollo missions.
Shirley Ann Jackson
Irene Joliot-Curie
Katherine Coleman Johnson
Mae Jemison
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Astronomer who discovered 2 nebulae and was the first woman to discover a comet.
Hippocrates
Caroline Herschel
William Harvey
Heinrich Hertz
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As an marine biologist and experimental embryologist he contributed to cell theory and the "wave of negativity."
Percy Julian
William Thomson Kelvin
James Prescott Joule
Ernest Everett Just
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The first person to correctly describe blood's circulation in the body through veins and arteries.
William Harvey
Hippocrates
Caroline Herschel
Heinrich Hertz
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Known as the father of modern geology.
Grace Hopper
Edwin Hubble
Robert Hooke
James Hutton
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Astronomer best known for the development of the three laws of planetary motion.
Karl Landsteiner
Johannes Kepler
Stephanie Kwolek
Omar Khayyam
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Physicist who found that mechanical, electrical, and heat energy are the same and can transform from one to another
Ernest Everett Just
Percy Julian
William Thomson Kelvin
James Prescott Joule
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The first black woman to receive a doctorate in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Katherine Coleman Johnson
Shirley Ann Jackson
Irene Joliot-Curie
Mae Jemison
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The first African American female astronaut and first black woman in space.
Irene Joliot-Curie
Mae Jemison
Katherine Coleman Johnson
Shirley Ann Jackson
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Called the pioneer of the distant stars, this astronomer discovered the age of the universe, and two moons of Pluto.
Grace Hopper
Robert Hooke
James Hutton
Edwin Hubble
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Navy Admiral who contributed to computer programming, software development, and invented the first computer compiler.
Edwin Hubble
Grace Hopper
Robert Hooke
James Hutton
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A chemist who figured out how to synthesize medicinal compounds from plant sources, making them more affordable.
Percy Julian
James Prescott Joule
Ernest Everett Just
William Thomson Kelvin
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A nuclear physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935 for discovery of induced radioactivity.
Shirley Ann Jackson
Mae Jemison
Katherine Coleman Johnson
Irene Joliot-Curie
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Scientist who invented the modern microscope, the wheel barometer and the hydrometer.
Grace Hopper
Edwin Hubble
James Hutton
Robert Hooke
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This physicist devised the absolute temperature scale and formulated the second law of thermodynamics.
James Prescott Joule
Percy Julian
Ernest Everett Just
William Thomson Kelvin
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Physicist who first conclusively proved the existence of the electromagnetic radio waves.
Hippocrates
Caroline Herschel
William Harvey
Heinrich Hertz