Newtonmas- Period 6

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Across
  1. 5. She discovered rapidly spinning, super dense, collapsed stars known as pulsars
  2. 7. Hosts his own show on NOVA called Cosmos and brings science to the public
  3. 8. Huge supporter of climate change awareness and helped develop sundials that were used in the Mars Exploration Rover missions
  4. 10. First man to orbit the Earth and the oldest man in space
  5. 14. Combined art and psychoanalysis to identify mental health problems by creating the "____ Inkblot Test"
  6. 16. Gives lectures at Harvard's school of Engineering and Applied sciences on "Science and Cooking"
  7. 17. Created the classification system for stars which has become the universal standard
  8. 18. Discovered nuclear fission but did not get credit for it
Down
  1. 1. Discovered evidence of dark matter from the movement of stars on the edges of galaxies
  2. 2. determined that the sound from a guitar originates from the top rather than the sides
  3. 3. 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
  4. 4. First woman to hold an executive position at the space agency and known as the "mother of hubble"
  5. 6. Created the Law of Conservation of Mass and discovered the atmosphere of Venus
  6. 7. Proposed wireless communication and invented the ____ coil
  7. 9. Won the Nobel Prize in physics for the photoelectric effect and published many other theories
  8. 11. Developed the three laws of motion and discovered that white light was made up of all other wavelengths
  9. 12. developed a theory of evolution to explain biological change
  10. 13. Discovered the four main moons of Jupiter and supported the heliocentric solar system
  11. 15. known for his contributions to the fields of cosmology, general relativity and quantum gravity, especially in the context of black holes