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Alan Shepard

on the surface of the moon, anybody can hit a ball farther than Lee Trevino Go »

Albert Einstein

Not even an atom bomb could undo the relativity of this genius's work. Go »

Albert Einstein

This physicist so profoundly advanced our understanding of the universe that it's possible to imagine aliens someday visiting our nation. Go »

Alfred Nobel

After an explosive article criticizing his deadly inventions, he dedicated his fortune to a more noble pursuit, honoring fellow scientists who help the world. Go »

Ardi

You better not ask her age, even if she is your relative. Go »

Ardi

She might be the root of everything! Go »

Arthur Eddington

This British astronomer had to go to Africa to prove Einstein right. Go »

B. F. Skinner

If the site tells you "Congratulations! Your guess was correct," you're only going to want to guess another goo. Go »

Benoit Mandelbrot

His influence on fractal geometry is immense, including coining the term itself, and it even affected how celebrity goo images are generated by algorithm. Go »

Biruté Galdikas

Louis thought she was the greatest of the apes. Go »

Buzz Aldrin

Being #2 isn't so bad if they name a cartoon action figure after you. Go »

Buzz Aldrin

He must have been buzzing with excitement when it was his turn to set foot on the Moon. Go »

C. V. Raman

What is the making of a goo, but the scattering of molecules and light? Go »

Carl Sagan

He made us want to reach out to the stars and touch someone. Go »

Charles Darwin

In theory, you could guess this goo by process of elimination. Go »

Charles Goodyear

This scientist has made rubber for balls and also is very tired after waterproofing other objects so that it will be a good year. Go »

Claudius Ptolemy

For almost 2000 years, this Greek mathematician's treatises have been the intersection between astronomy and astrology. Go »

Curtis Ebbesmeyer

Who knew that studying ocean currents could be so much fun? Go »

Daniel du Toit

This comet-hunting astronomer went out of his way to prove the point of his final lecture. Go »

Delia Owens

She spent her career in Africa fighting with poachers and government officials and being treated as a pariah. Now she has a second career as a novelist with a hit book about a North Carolina girl who is also treated as a pariah. Go »

Dolly

Who says cloning isn't safe? Go »

E.O. Wilson

This Harvard Professor Emeritus truly took Proverbs 6:6 to heart. Go »

Edmond Halley

He mapped the southern constellations, put a window in a diving bell, and computed the orbit of a comet that still visits us every three quarters of a century. Go »

Edward Norton Lorenz

These butterflies look pretty out of control to this goo. Go »

Erwin Schrödinger

This physicist's example about a possibly dead cat made for a popular but morbid meme. Go »

Eugene Cernan

Americans passionate about space exploration hope that he won't remain the last man on the Moon. Go »

Francesco Bellini

There are no peach-flavored cocktails among his many profitable patents. Go »

Frank Borman

igspay... in... acespay Go »

Freeman Dyson

comet sweet comet Go »

Fritz Haber

Half of the world is alive today thanks to this chemist's genius, but few showed up to see him accept his Prize after his war-changing invention the year before. Go »

Galileo Galilei

This physicist set astronomy in motion when he dared suggest the Earth revolves around the Sun. Go »

Galileo Galilei

And yet it goos. Go »

George Boole

01110100 01110010 01110101 01100101 00100000 01101111 01110010 00100000 01100110 01100001 01101100 01110011 01100101 00111111 Go »

Giorgio Tsoukalos

Aliens. The only bigger mystery is what this scientist's hair stylist is thinking. Go »

Giovan Battista Bellaso

Zvwy cxyk koy ezgxmdzep yywbm tti iwdned xnoh ne piyqfobqh, hih cae pghsx afxxwpatqh zc otoflkf. (Key: GOOGAME) Go »

Giovanni Cassini

This 17th-century astronomer discovered four moons of Saturn and the gaps in Saturn's rings. However, he was not deliberately lowered into Saturn's crushing atmosphere because his batteries had run out. Go »

Gregor Mendel

Goo players would be as happy as peas in a pod to recognize this friar whose genetic imprint is all over biology. Go »

He Jiankui

For a guy playing God with genetics, He certainly seems surprised at the international controversy that He created. Go »

Helge von Koch

In our fractured era, politicians funded by the Koch brothers might call liberals snowflakes, but this mathematician gave us a classic fractal for any era. Go »

Henrietta Lacks

This celebrity, who remains the foremost participant in medical research the world over, is the first goo to begin life as one species and evolve into another. Go »

Honor Frost

Deep down, she knew that she would someday command respect in her historic field, but she didn't hold her breath. Go »

Howard Carter

Tut, tut, goo guesser. Be the first to discover this discoverer's name, and you'll have this round wrapped up! Go »

Jabir ibn Hayyan

Not even HCl could damage this alchemist's contribution to science. Go »

Jack Parsons

A pioneer of rocket science, this loon was head of a cult church and had his money and girlfriend stolen by a Scientologist bigwig. Go »

Jane Goodall

This woman goes bananas for conservationism, but she's all good. Go »

Jane Goodall

If this noted researcher got her way, we'd stop monkeying around and start conserving nature while we still can. Go »

Jerry Ehman

This extraterrestrial radio seeker might be the only person more associated with the word "wow" than Owen Wilson. Go »

John Glenn

This real-life space cowboy took time between his space missions to be a Senator from Ohio. Go »

John Grunsfeld

Who better to tell Stephen Colbert and other TV hosts about the Curiosity rover than a man who has been to space five times? Go »

John McCarthy

His language was created to enhance communication, rather than impede it as the name implied. Go »

John Napier

This Scottish mathematician was so essential to the study of logarithms that the NEPER unit was named after him. Go »

John Nash

I can't figure out how to make this goo any more attractive. Go »

John Nash

game theory, paranoid schizophrenia, 2001 Best Picture Go »

John Stapp

In the sands of New Mexico, this rocket man tested the limits of human deceleration, and reached a conclusion faster than anyone on the planet. Go »

John von Neumann

This Martian genius with a computer for a brain influenced nearly every field of math and science. We definitely wouldn't have war games without him. Go »

Justin Schmidt

Studying entomology can be a real pain. Go »

Katalin Karikó

This Hungarian biochemist has given a real shot in the arm to RNA science. She deserves a crown this year. Go »

Katherine Johnson

Hollywood is over the moon about this West Virginia-born mathematician and navigator. Go »

Katie Bouman

Here's generating an image of a woman who generates images for a living, including one that just this week showed us something in the cosmos that we'd never seen before. Go »

Kip Thorne

He proved that backwards time travel is impossible, discovered that black holes spin at almost the speed of light, and won a Nobel for bettering our understanding of interstellar space. Go »

Koko

She is said to have learned over 2000 words of human language, even simple words like "cat." Go »

L.L. Zamenhof

Kiam li instruis la mondo al komuniki, oni diris al li ne. Go »

Laika

Irony aside, this heroic "muttnik" didn't survive being the first living passenger in orbit. Go »

Leo Szilard

He patently believed in nuclear fission, but couldn't stop the chain reaction that led to dropping the bomb on Japan. Go »

Linus Pauling

His work with a Bond led to a quantum of solace (well, an award that's a synonym for solace). Go »

Lisa Nowak

In space, no one can hear the woman having an affair with your boyfriend scream. Go »

Lucy

She's been busy traveling across the U.S. in recent years, but she took time out of her busy schedule to make a cameo in the 2014 movie that shares her name. Go »

Léon Foucault

French physicist known for dangling his invention over a pit in the floor Go »

Mae Jemison

Whatever her accomplishments in science and education, she'll always be known as the first non-white woman in space. Go »

Margaret Fountaine

This lepidopterist is equally known for her extensive diary. Go »

Marie Curie

A lifetime shortened by radiation poisoning was her reward for discovering radium and polonium. Go »

Marie Curie and Irène Joliot-Curie

Famous mother-daughter chemists are about as common as radium and polonium. Go »

Mark and Scott Kelly

They're less famous for being a pair of astronaut twins than for one's wife surviving a shooting in the head. Go »

Mary Anning

Seeking skeletal specimens, she scoured seasides, sans scientific salutation, supposedly spawning some sibilant Sullivan song. Go »

Michael Collins

He too made the voyage from the Earth to the Moon (except for the final descent), and designed the mission patch. Go »

Nate Silver

All of the math in the entire world couldn't predict the winner of this round. Go »

Neil Armstrong

Too bad he wasn't the first person to kneel on the moon. Go »

Neil Armstrong

One small step for this man was also one giant leap for mankind. Go »

Neil Harbisson

You install one antenna in a man's skull and suddenly he acts like he has changed species. Go »

Neil deGrasse Tyson

demoting Pluto got him promoted to late night comedy show guest Go »

Neil deGrasse Tyson

This astrophysicist wants to be your tour guide to the cosmos. Go »

Nicolaus Copernicus

Heliocentrism may be true, but don't call him Saint Nick. Go »

Nikolai Vavilov

For the crime of storing and studying seeds so that he could feed millions of people, he was given a decades-long sentence to prison, where he died of starvation. Go »

Norman Borlaug

Give a nation some wheat, save a life. Give them new varieties of the plant and modern production techniques, save a billion. Go »

Orlando Figueroa

Two months ago, this longtime Mars expert was re-hired by NASA to plan its next robotic expedition to the red planet. Go »

Paul Stamets

This mycologist's input as a consultant was so invaluable to TV writers that wanted their ship to exceed warp speed by traversing an interstellar mycelial network that they named an astromycologist after him in gratitude. Go »

Peter Borwein

If you can't cook up the solution in x minutes, don't come whining to me. Go »

Phil Plait

I'm skeptical of the notion that you're bad at the game if you can't pinpoint this space expert. Go »

Philip Zimbardo

This Stanford professor is an expert on human psychology, especially when it comes to students being treated like prisoners. Go »

Pierre de Fermat

This (fer)mathematician made significant contributions to calculus. Hopefully it will be easier to find proof of this goo's answer than it was to find proof of his last theorem. Go »

Richard Dawkins

His belief that we have an odd delusion about faith has never really evolved, and has become a selfish meme. Go »

Richard Feynman

Surely you're joking if you say this physicist wasn't a fine man. Go »

Rita J. King

Her speech was guaranteed to sparkle. Who's the king? Go »

Robert Oppenheimer

Hinduism and Catholicism influenced this destroyer of worlds. Go »

Robert Recorde

Equals = Equals Go »

Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski

This native Chicagoan is a meme machine, thanks in part to citations by George Takei and Stephen Hawking. Go »

Sarah Butler

in Austin, paleontology is the name of the game Go »

Scott J. Horowitz

This mission commander kept his wits about him when visiting the International Space Station. Go »

Shirley Ann Jackson

Surely this physicist couldn't do more to advance her field. Go »

Solomon W. Golomb

Think this professor would know his way around Tetris? Go »

Stanley Milgram

This professor of social psychology is most famous for the shocking experiment that bore his name, but he also conducted experiments that led to the scientific understanding of six degrees of separation. Go »

Steph Tyler

She continued her work during the eight months that she and her expedition (including her family) were held in captivity in Ethiopia, and made several subsequent trips abroad that collectively earned her an MBE, making her an an ill-fated skipper who still feels chipper at remaining a tripper to study more dippers. Go »

Stephen Hawking

A brief history of his life would mention ALS. Who's the king? Go »

Stephen Hawking

It's hard to be brief when you're writing the history of literally all history. Who's the king? Go »

Stephen Jay Gould

your reasoning had better evolve in fits and spurts Go »

Stephen Leatherman

He's the comparer of coastlines, the orderer of oceanfronts, and the scientist of sandiness. Go »

Sue

if you tried to steal these bones, you would probably get sued Go »

Sue Hendrickson

bony paleontologist Go »

Suzanne Simard

Our understanding of the interconnected forest has grown exponentially thanks to this Canadian mother stumper. Go »

Svante Pääbo

When most people want to map out their distant relatives, they don't have 3.2 billion pairs to write down. Go »

Sydney Brenner

You'll have this latest round all tied up if you can provide one elegant, simple answer. Go »

Sylvia Earle

Just as Noah had to overcome a flood, NOAA did plenty of scientific work in deep water, run by this marine biologist, a first in her field. Go »

Thor Heyerdahl

This anthropologist had to go to the ends of the Earth -- from one, to another -- to prove his theories. Go »

Valentina Tereshkova

Она была первой чайкой, котор нужно лететь в космос. Go »

Vi Hart

You can hear in her voice how much she loves numbers, except 3.14. Go »

Victor of Aveyron

He brought new meaning to the phrase "Wild Child". Go »

Émile Durkheim

His theories about living life without social rules inspired a new scientific discipline for the 20th century. Go »

Ötzi

This Italian is a longtime fan of dabbing. Go »