Prompt 5 of 7
Name a famous physicist
109 accepted answers across 6 rarity tiers.
100 ptsOne in a Krillion2 answers
The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.
- Henry Cavendish— A garden shed and a torsion balance gave Earth's mass.
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar— He derived the white dwarf mass limit at nineteen, shipboard.
85 ptsDeep Cut53 answers
Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.
- Abdus Salam
- Albert Michelson
- Andrea Ghez
- Andrei Sakharov
- Arno Penzias
- Arthur Compton
- Arthur Eddington
- Augustin-Jean Fresnel
- Barry Barish
- Brian Josephson
- Carl David Anderson
- Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
- Chen-Ning Yang
- Chien-Shiung Wu
- Donna Strickland
- Edward Witten
- Émilie du Châtelet
- Emmy Noether— Conservation laws each trace to a symmetry, by her theorem.
- Ernst Mach
- François Englert
- Frank Wilczek
- Freeman Dyson
- Fritz Zwicky
- Georges Lemaître
- Hans Bethe
- Hendrik Lorentz
- Henri Poincaré
- Hideki Yukawa
- Ibn al-Haytham
- James Chadwick
- Jocelyn Bell Burnell
- John Bardeen— Two physics Nobels, one for the transistor, one for superconductivity.
- John Stewart Bell
- John Wheeler
- Josiah Willard Gibbs
- Leo Szilard
- Léon Foucault
- Leon Lederman
- Leonard Susskind
- Lev Landau
- Lise Meitner— Her collaborator took the 1944 Nobel for fission she explained.
- Maria Goeppert Mayer
- Max Born
- Pyotr Kapitsa
- Rainer Weiss
- Robert Millikan
- Satyendra Nath Bose
- Sheldon Glashow
- Sin-Itiro Tomonaga
- Steven Weinberg
- Thomas Young
- Tsung-Dao Lee
- William Shockley
60 ptsRare30 answers
Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.
- Alessandro Volta
- André-Marie Ampère
- Benjamin Franklin
- Blaise Pascal
- Brian Greene
- C. V. Raman
- Christiaan Huygens
- Christian Doppler
- Edward Teller
- Enrico Fermi
- Erwin Schrodinger
- Georg Ohm
- Heinrich Hertz
- Henri Becquerel
- J. J. Thomson
- James Clerk Maxwell
- James Prescott Joule
- Kip Thorne
- Louis de Broglie
- Ludwig Boltzmann
- Michael Faraday
- Murray Gell-Mann
- Paul Dirac
- Robert Hooke
- Roger Penrose
- Rosalind Franklin
- Tycho Brahe
- Vera Rubin
- Wilhelm Röntgen
- Wolfgang Pauli
30 ptsSchooler18 answers
A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.
- Archimedes
- Brian Cox
- Carl Sagan
- Edwin Hubble
- Ernest Rutherford
- Galileo Galilei
- Johannes Kepler
- Lord Kelvin
- Marie Curie
- Max Planck
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- Niels Bohr
- Nikola Tesla
- Peter Higgs
- Pierre Curie
- Richard Feynman
- Sally Ride
- Werner Heisenberg
15 ptsToo Clever2 answers
An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.
- Michio Kaku— Co-founded string field theory before the television career.
- Neil deGrasse Tyson— Pluto lost planet status partly on his museum's say-so.
10 ptsPlankton4 answers
The most common answer on the board.
- Albert Einstein
- Isaac Newton
- Robert Oppenheimer
- Stephen Hawking