Newtonmas- Period 5
Across
- 2. First woman to be paid for her work in science and discovery of 8 comets
- 4. Wrote the code that brought Armstrong and Aldrin to the move and back safely but was not recognized for her contribution to the moon landing until 2003
- 7. Proposed wireless communication and invented the ____ coil
- 8. Was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize, and the only one to win two- for her discovery of polonium and radium
- 10. Developed the three laws of motion and discovered that white light was made up of all other wavelengths
- 12. Discovered the four main moons of Jupiter and supported the heliocentric solar system
- 13. Discovered evidence of dark matter from the movement of stars on the edges of galaxies
Down
- 1. Awarded the Nobel Prize for his discover of Fission byproducts
- 3. Won the Nobel Prize in physics for the photoelectric effect and published many other theories
- 4. known for his contributions to the fields of cosmology, general relativity and quantum gravity, especially in the context of black holes
- 5. First woman to hold an executive position at the space agency and known as the "mother of hubble"
- 6. studied for a PhD in reflected light from interplanetary dust and the velocity of dust in the plane of the Solar System and used his knowledge of sound waves to amplify sound and create the illusion of a large crowd
- 9. First American woman to fly in space
- 11. First man to orbit the Earth and the oldest man in space
- 14. Discovered force transmitting particles which were then named after him