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PROJECT SHEET FAMOUS

Famous Presentations

Step I. Select a famous person in physics (See attached list on back). Choose carefully as this name cannot be changed without penalty. Complete the Fact Sheet as the method of choosing your particular physicist. Only one person in each class may select a particular physicist. First come, first serve.

Step II. The next phase is to prepare a presentation that gives a short biography of your physicist and explains one of their contributions to physics. This will be done utilizing Power Point. Diagrams, charts or pictures should be used. Be thorough and clear and assume that the audience knows NOTHING about what you are presenting. You will get at least one class period to on this. All Power Points are to be saved to the S: Drive on the before the due date.

These are due April 12

Step III. Give an oral presentation of your Power Point to the class.

These will begin on April15

Use the project rubric to guide you in your preparation. Bring the rubric with your name and the name of your physicist on the day that presentations begin. Failure to bring a rubric will result in a 5 point deduction.

Famous Physicists Andre Marie Leonardo da Vinci Frederic Joliot- Betsy Ancker-Johnson Ingred Daubechies James Prescott C. D. Anderson Lord William Elda Anderson Christian Doppler Johannes Kepler Anders Angstrom Archimedes Thomas Edison Henri Le Chatelier Aristarchus Ernst Mach Aristotle Eratosthenes Svante Arrhenius Gabriel James Johann Henri Albert Michelson Alexander Bell Pierre Fermat Isaac Daniel Bernoulli Han Christian Bessemer Richard Feynman Georg Simon Hans Albrecht Bethe Jean Foucault Robert Oppenheimer Joseph Black Joseph Fourier Blaise Katherine Blodgett Illya Frank Katharine Blunt Benjamin Franklin Galileo Galelei Olas Roemer Ludwig Eduard Boltzman Hans W. Geiger Erwin Schrodinger Maria Goeppert-Mayer Satyendranath Bose Otto Hahn Willebrod Snell Tycho Brahe Steven Hawkings Karl Heisenberg Nicola Susan Bell-Burnell Gustav Allesandro Volta Jacques Charles James Nicolas Copernicus Victor Hess George Westinghouse Gustave de Coriolis Robert Hooke Charles Christian Huygens Shirley Ann Jackson

NAME: ______

Fact Sheet for Famous Physicist

Name of Physicist: ______

Date of Birth: ______

Date of Death: ______

Nationality: ______

Marital Status: Check one

Single ____

Married ____

Name of Spouse ______

Number of Children _____

List the contribution(s) that your Physicists made to the world of .

Explain 1 contribution to the of Physics in detail (use the back if necessary).