Mobile International Festival Scientist, Physicians, Engineers To download a copy go to: http://www.mobileinternationalfestival.org/education.html

The following are some scientists/engineers/physicians associated with Alabama (city). Get to know them, can you find others? Can you find famous athletes, authors, entertainers?

Match the person with what they are known for (put the number in the answer column) Famous Person ANSWER # What they are known for. Inventor of the electric hearing aid and Klaxon automobile E. O. Wilson 22 horn (Auburn) (June 10, 1918 – August 15, 2009) was a nuclear physicist, Henry Hartsfield 21 the "father" of the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center. (Tuscaloosa) American physicist, noted for his design and construction Mae Jemison 20 of high voltage generators (Tuscaloosa) Kathryn C. Thornton 6 (1932–1967) (Mobile) Kathryn P. Hire 16 Astronaut (Huntsville) Clifton Williams 23 Astronaut (Auburn) Astronaut first African-American woman in space — STS-47 James Voss 3 (Decatur) Astronaut STS-44, STS-53, STS-69, STS-101, STS-102/105 Jimmy Wales 7 (Cordova) David Satcher 5 Astronaut STS-90, STS-130 (Mobile) Waldo L. Semon 2 Astronaut— STS-4, STS-41-D, STS-61-A (Birmingham) Astronaut, first woman to make multiple EVAs — STS- Regina Benjamin 4 33, STS-49, STS-61, STS-73 (Montgomery) Edward Burkhalter 1 Biologist, entomologist, author (Birmingham) Percy Lavon Julian 24 CEO Apple Inc. (Auburn) Chemist, inventor synthesis of cortisone from soy beans. William Gorgas 13 (Montgomery) Miller Reese Hutchison 8 Co-founder Wikipedia (Huntsville) First African American District Ranger in the southeastern Robert Jemison Van de United States, the first African American Forest Supervisor in 18 Graaff Alabama, and the third African American Forest Supervisor in the United States. (Tuskegee) Inventor and businessman who was associated with Thomas Edison between 1910 and 1918. He developed a number of Roscoe M. Moore 15 inventions, including the klaxon auto horn and a hearing aid. (Montrose) George Washington Inventor invented useful polyvinyl chloride aka PVC or vinyl 10 Carver (Demopolis) John H. Yancy 19 Inventor, pioneering agriculturalist, scientist (Tuskegee) N. Jan Davis 11 Physician, US surgeon general (Mobile) Rear Admiral the highest ranking veterinarian in all of the Louis Rosen 17 Uniformed Services (Tuskegee) Miller Reese Hutchison 14 U.S. Army surgeon general (Toulminville) 12 U.S. Navy admiral, chief of naval intelligence (Roanoke) Tim Cook 9 U.S. Surgeon General (Anniston)

All these scientists had strong international connections, can you find out more about them and their life experiences around the world?