Famous Scientists

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Across
  1. 2. electrical experiments led to invention of the lightning rod
  2. 4. this educator and comedian had his own TV show
  3. 5. first woman to win a Nobel Prize, won twice
  4. 9. contributed to modern alternating current (AC) electricity
  5. 10. first used telescope to view planets and stars
  6. 13. was a botanist, anatomist, engineer as well as an artist
  7. 15. considered the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees
  8. 17. father of modern chemistry, first name Antoine
  9. 18. developed general theory of relativity
Down
  1. 1. discovered vaccines; founded science of germ history
  2. 3. first African American woman to travel in space
  3. 4. formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitational
  4. 6. her book Silent Spring helped start the environmental movement
  5. 7. with colleague Crick discovered structure of DNA molecule
  6. 8. first woman in space, flew twice on space shuttle Challenger
  7. 11. created light bulb, phonograph and motion picture
  8. 12. brothers who created first airplane
  9. 14. botanist, called 'farmer's best friend'
  10. 16. often described as the world's first computer programmer
  11. 19. leading architect and engineer in ancient Egypt