Science
These goos are from the Science category, people famous for their work in physics, mathematics, or other scientific fields. Browse another way.
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 »
Betty Louise Turtle
With her working partner, this astronomer was shell-shocked to discover a holy object. 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 »
Franklin Chang-Díaz
This astronaut Hall of Famer went from Central America to the United States to space a record number of times. 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
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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 »
Percy Lavon Julian
This pioneer in synthetic drugs is also remembered for being a pioneer for African Americans in chemistry. 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 »
