PHYSICS PROJECT SHEET FAMOUS PHYSICISTS Famous Physicist 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 work 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 Ampere Leonardo da Vinci Frederic Joliot-Curie Betsy Ancker-Johnson Ingred Daubechies James Prescott Joule C. D. Anderson Paul Dirac Lord William Kelvin Elda Anderson Christian Doppler Johannes Kepler Anders Angstrom Mildred Dresselhaus Gustav Kirchhoff Archimedes Thomas Edison Henri Le Chatelier Aristarchus Albert Einstein Ernst Mach Aristotle Eratosthenes Guglielmo Marconi Svante Arrhenius Gabriel Fahrenheit James Maxwell Johann Henri Becquerel Michael Faraday Albert Michelson Alexander Bell Pierre Fermat Isaac Newton Daniel Bernoulli Enrico Fermi Han Christian Oersted Henry Bessemer Richard Feynman Georg Simon Ohm Hans Albrecht Bethe Jean Foucault Robert Oppenheimer Joseph Black Joseph Fourier Blaise Pascal Katherine Blodgett Illya Frank Wolfgang Pauli Katharine Blunt Benjamin Franklin Max Planck Niels Bohr Galileo Galelei Olas Roemer Ludwig Eduard Boltzman Hans W. Geiger Erwin Schrodinger Max Born Maria Goeppert-Mayer Julian Schwinger Satyendranath Bose Otto Hahn Willebrod Snell Tycho Brahe Steven Hawkings Edward Teller Louis de Broglie Karl Heisenberg Nicola Tesla Susan Bell-Burnell Gustav Hertz Allesandro Volta Jacques Charles Heinrich Hertz James Watt Nicolas Copernicus Victor Hess George Westinghouse Gustave de Coriolis Robert Hooke Charles Coulomb Christian Huygens Marie Curie 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 science. • • • • • Explain 1 contribution to the field of Physics in detail (use the back if necessary). .