Nobel Knowledge Quiz

OCT 01, 2018

Member Contributor

So you think you know your Nobel history? You may think again after taking our quiz. Do you recognize these images of Nobel laureates?

1. While this laureate (shown here as a wee tyke) may be best known for the limit named after him, he also has a telescope, number, and observatory named in his honor.

2. While this laureate (shown here as a wee tyke) may be best known for the limit named after him, he also has a telescope, number, and observatory named in his honor.

3. Sexism and rules regarding nepotism meant that this laureate wasn’t paid to do research until 11 years after receiving her PhD.

4. In addition to his contributions to the electroweak unification theory, this laureate also advocated for the expansion of scientific resources in the developing world.

5. Despite his impressive work in laser cooling and trapping atoms, this laureate is probably better known for his second career as US Secretary of Energy from 2009–2013.

6. A special friend of the Society of Physics Students, this laureate’s commitment to connecting scientists with policy has helped 18 undergraduate students over 9 years spend their summers in Washington, DC, serving in hands-on roles with the US Congress.

These images all come from the Emile Segrè Visual Archives (ESVA) within AIP’s Niels Bohr Library & Archives. This collection features over 30,000 historical digital images, photographs, slides, lithographs, engravings, drawings, and other visual materials. The ESVA is fully searchable online at http://photos.aip.org or, if you find yourself in the Washington, DC, area, we encourage you to stop by the archives to check out these materials in person.

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1. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, 2. Andrei Sakharov, 3. Maria Goeppert-Mayer, 4. Abdus Salam, 5. Steven Chu, 6. John Mather