Famous Scientists Word Search

Words in the Famous Scientists word search

Every word used across the three levels, with a quick note on what it means.

einstein

Physicist who explained relativity and the link of mass and energy

newton

English scientist who described gravity and three laws of motion

curie

Marie Curie studied radioactivity and won two Nobel Prizes

darwin

Naturalist who explained species change by natural selection

galileo

Italian who used a telescope to study Jupiter's moons

pasteur

French chemist who showed germs spoil food and cause disease

tesla

Engineer whose work made alternating current electricity practical

hawking

British physicist who studied black holes and wrote popular books

franklin

Rosalind Franklin made the X-ray images that revealed DNA

mendel

Monk whose pea plants revealed the basic rules of heredity

kepler

Astronomer who found that planets travel in oval orbits

goodall

Jane Goodall spent decades studying wild chimpanzees in Tanzania

carver

George Washington Carver taught crop rotation and peanut science

faraday

Discovered how magnets can be used to generate electricity

copernicus

Argued that Earth and the planets circle the Sun

lavoisier

French chemist who named oxygen and studied burning

herschel

William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus in 1781

bohr

Danish physicist who described how electrons circle an atom

pavlov

Russian scientist known for experiments on learned reflexes in dogs

carson

Rachel Carson wrote about pesticide harm in Silent Spring

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