ICE BREAKER! Famous Scientists Over the Years

This inventor discovered over 300 uses for the peanut.

• Ronald McNair
• Claude Steele
• Dr. George Washington Carver
• Henry McBay

Jane Goodall is a famous primatologist who discovered that it is not just humans who use tools. What animal did she study in Africa?

• Organutangs

• Chimpanzees

• Gorillas

• Lions

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What percent of women in the workforce hold STEM positions?

• 33%
• 24%
• 50%
• 48%

Who is Dr. Mae C. Jemison ?

• She was known as the human computer.

• She was the first black woman to travel in space.

• She discovered a cure for Diabetes.

Depicted by Octavia Spencer in this 2016 movie, Dorothy Vaughan became the first Black NASA supervisor in 1949 and made sure that her employees received promotions or pay raises if merited.

• Freedom Riders

• Hidden Figures

• Eyes on the Prize

• The Black List

Working in the 1950s, her photographs of crystallized DNA were the first to prove that DNA was a helix.

• Vera Rubin

• Grace Hopper

• Rosalind Franklin

• Rachel Carson

Who is Neil DeGrasse Tyson ?

• American astrophysicist, planetary scientist, author, and science communicator.

• He majored in Chemistry at Harvard University.

• He authored 15 books on the planet Earth

He started the Tuskegee normal and Industiral Institute in Alabama where black children could learn skills such as shoemaking and farming.

• Jackie Robinson

• Martin Luther King

• George Washington Carver

• Booker T. Washington

Which Serbian-American is known for his contributions to the design of the alternating current (AC) electricity supply system?

• Nikola Tesla

• Michael Faraday

• Louis Pasteur

• Dmitri Mendeleev

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Which Polish scientist conducted pioneering research on radioactivity, and won Nobel Prizes in two different sciences?

• Marie Curie

• Otto Hahn

• Lise Meitner

• Rosalind Franklin

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