Great Discoverers and Discoveries

Which scientist is known for their work creating computer graphics that realistically models phenomena like waves and fire?

• Ron Fedkiw

• Stephen Hawking

• Rachel Zimmerman

• Tabitha Babbitt

What great discovery is Nick D'Alosio known for?

• invented the Summly app as a teenager

• developed the Blissymbol printer

• holds three patents for optical imaging systems

• discovered that penicillin killed bacteria

Which woman invented the circular saw?

• Tabitha Babbitt

• Ellen Ochoa

• Rachel Zimmerman

Which scientist is known for their work in the fields of cosmology and physics, credited their disability ,Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), to assisting in their focus on research?

Describe the Blissymbolics system that Rachel Zimmerman developed at the age of 12.

Select the failed inventions of Thomas Edison

• electric lightbulb

• telephone

• talking doll

• Kinetograph

Which scientist discovered that penicillin killed bacteria,

• Carl Friedrich Gauss

• Alexander Fleming

• Ron Fedkiw

• Stephen Hawking

Ellen Ochoa holds three patents for optical imaging systems, but what else is she known for?

• Her groundbreaking work studying blank holes

• First Hispanic woman to graduate from medical school

• Invented a successful method for correcting astigmatism surgically

• First Hispanic woman astronaut

This person is frequently referred to as the first pure mathematician.

• Pythagoreas

• Babbit

• Gauss

• Hypotenuse

This mathematician was able to solve the question, “What is the sum of the integers from 1 to 100?” while in elementary school.