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What does a scientist look

like?

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Scientist?

What leads you to believe that this man may be a scientist?

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Scientist?

Eddie Murphy as The Nutty Professor

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Scientist?

Sponge Bob Square Pants

Burger Flipper

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Scientist?

Stephen Hillenburg Marine Biologist

Sponge Bob’s Creator

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Scientist?

Physics: Engineer for Boeing-designing fighter jets

Bill Nye The Science Guy: Television show that combines science and FUN!

"Leave the world better than you found it. Sometimes you gotta pick up somebody else's trash."

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Scientist?

Dr. Bruce Jackson Co-founder of the

African-American DNA Roots Project.

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Scientist?

Chien-Shiung Wu, Physicist (1912 - 1997)

Studied sickle cell anemia. She believed that "even the most sophisticated and seemingly remote basic nuclear physics research has implications beneficial to human welfare."

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Scientist?

Anna McGowan A scientist at NASA She leads a research

group that is developing material to allow airplane wings to repair themselves

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Scientist?

Stephen Hawking Motor neurone disease Uses a motorized

wheelchair, and a computerized speech-synthesizer

Developed several theories about the nature and origins of our universe

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Scientist?

Ellen Ochoa Astronaut – First

Hispanic-American Woman in Space

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Scientist?

Albert Einstein Asperger’s

Syndrome (a type of autism)

Theory of Relativity

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Scientist?

Dr. Mae Jemison, degree in chemical engineering and Doctor of Medicine

First African-American woman to enter space

Grew up in Chicago!

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Scientist?

Dian Fossey as a young adult.

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Scientist?

Dian Fossey as an adult.

Field researcher and anthropologist.

Groundbreaking work with Mountain Gorillas of Africa.

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Anyone Can Be a Scientist!

Will it be you??

Created by: E. Kovac, 2004