Andre Marie Ampere, the French physicist behind the amp · French
A calm, inert gas, from the Greek for idle
Ibn Sina, the Persian physician and philosopher · Persian
Amedeo Avogadro, the Italian scientist of Avogadro's number · Italian
Charles Babbage, who designed the first mechanical computer
A Swiss family of great mathematicians · Italian
Niels Bohr, the Danish physicist of the atom · Danish
A hard element named after the mineral borax
A family of particles named after Satyendra Nath Bose
Robert Boyle, the Irish chemist of Boyle's law · Irish
William and Lawrence Bragg, the father and son of X ray crystals
Robert Bunsen, who gave his name to the lab burner · German
George Washington Carver, the agricultural scientist famous for peanuts
Anders Celsius, the Swedish astronomer of the temperature scale · Swedish
A tooth on a gear wheel, for a small dog who keeps things running · small dogs
Nicolaus Copernicus, who put the Sun at the centre of the solar system · Polish
The Greek thinker who first imagined atoms · Greek
Christian Doppler, the physicist of the Doppler effect · German
A machine that makes electricity, for a dog with endless energy
The tiny charged particle that whizzes around an atom
Leonhard Euler, the great Swiss mathematician · German
Daniel Fahrenheit, the inventor of the mercury thermometer · German
Michael Faraday, the pioneer of electricity and magnetism
Enrico Fermi, the Italian physicist of the first nuclear reactor · Italian
Richard Feynman, the playful Nobel physicist
The Italian mathematician of the famous number sequence · Italian
Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of penicillin · Scottish
Howard Florey, the Australian who turned penicillin into a medicine
Carl Friedrich Gauss, the prince of mathematicians · German
Hans Geiger, the inventor of the clicking radiation counter · German
Short for gyroscope, a spinning top that keeps its balance
Robert Hooke, who first saw and named the cell
Alexander von Humboldt, the explorer and naturalist · German
Edward Jenner, the doctor who made the first vaccine
James Joule, the brewer turned physicist of energy
Lord Kelvin, who set the absolute temperature scale · Scottish
Antoine Lavoisier, the father of modern chemistry · French
Carl Linnaeus, who gave every living thing a two part Latin name · Swedish
Joseph Lister, the pioneer of clean surgery
Ernst Mach, whose name measures the speed of sound · German
Guglielmo Marconi, the pioneer of radio · Italian
Gregor Mendel, the monk who discovered how traits pass down through peas · German
Samuel Morse, the inventor of Morse code
A nerve cell of the brain, for a clever dog
A tiny, ghostly particle that passes through almost anything · small dogs
The particle with no charge in the heart of an atom
Georg Ohm, the German physicist of electrical resistance · German
Louis Pasteur, who made the first rabies vaccine · French
A single particle of light
The part that pumps up and down in an engine, for a bouncy dog
Max Planck, the father of quantum theory · German
The positive particle in the nucleus of an atom
The Greek thinker of the famous triangle theorem · Greek
Srinivasa Ramanujan, the self taught Indian mathematical genius · Tamil
A metal pin that holds a structure together
Wilhelm Roentgen, the discoverer of X rays · German
Ernest Rutherford, the New Zealand physicist who split the atom
Carl Sagan, the astronomer who brought the cosmos to everyone
A toothed wheel that drives a chain
Thales of Miletus, the first Greek philosopher of nature · Greek
Alan Turing, the codebreaker and father of computer science
A quantity with size and direction, for a dog who knows where they are going
The unit of electric potential, for a dog full of spark
The unit of power, named after James Watt
A rare gas that glows blue, from the Greek for stranger
The smallest unit of an element, from the Greek for uncuttable · small dogs
A starting truth in mathematics that needs no proof · Greek
The glass cup of every science lab
A metal that grows rainbow coloured crystals
A secret code, for a dog full of mystery
Greek for I have found it, shouted by Archimedes in his bath · Greek
The preserved remains of ancient life, for a dog who loves to dig
A pattern that repeats at every scale, like a fern or a snowflake
The joining of atoms that powers the Sun
The third Greek letter, and a kind of powerful ray · Greek
From the Greek for giant, a billion of something · Greek · big dogs
The particle that glues quarks together, for a dog who sticks close · small dogs
The light gas that makes balloons float, named after the Greek sun
A spiral shape, like the twist of DNA
An atom with an electric charge, from the Greek for going · small dogs
The eleventh letter of the Greek alphabet, used for wavelength · Greek
A beam of focused light, for a dog who never loses focus
The lightest metal, from the Greek for stone
The paper that turns red or blue to test acids
An object that pulls iron towards it, for a dog everyone is drawn to
From the Greek for great, a million of something · Greek · big dogs
A living thing too small to see without a microscope · small dogs
One millionth of a metre, for the smallest pup · small dogs
Two or more atoms joined together · small dogs
A heavier cousin of the electron · small dogs
From the Greek for dwarf, meaning one billionth · small dogs
The glowing gas of bright signs, from the Greek for new
The densest natural element on Earth
A weight that swings back and forth, like a happy tail
From the Petri dish, the little lab dish named after Julius Petri
The glowing fourth state of matter, found in stars and lightning
The smallest amount of anything in physics, from the Latin for how much
A tiny particle inside protons and neutrons, named from a line in Joyce · small dogs
A glowing element discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie
The navigation tool sailors used to read the stars
The Greek letter that means sum in mathematics · Greek
The element at the heart of every computer chip
Finding things with sound echoes, for a dog with great ears
The full band of colours in light
A line that touches a curve, for a dog who wanders off topic
Alessandro Volta, inventor of the battery, who gave his name to the volt · Italian