1 What does a scientist look like?

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

3 Scientist?  Eddie Murphy as The Nutty Professor.

4 Scientist?  Sponge Bob Square Pants.

5 Scientist?  Stephen Hillenburg Marine Biologist and Sponge Bob’s creator.

6 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."

7 Scientist?  Dr. Bruce Jackson, co-founder of the African-American DNA Roots Project.

8 Scientist?  Chien-Shiung Wu, Physicist ( ).  Studied sickle cell anemia. She believed that "even the most sophisticated and seemingly remote basic nuclear physics research has implications beneficial to human welfare."

9 Scientist?  Anna McGowan, NASA scientist.  She leads a research group that is developing material to allow airplane wings to repair themselves.

10 Scientist?  Stephen Hawking developed several theories about the nature and origins of our universe.  Uses a motorized wheelchair, and a computerized speech- synthesizer.

11 Scientist?  Ellen Ochoa, astronaut – first Hispanic-American woman in space.

12 Scientist?  Albert Einstein, one of the most influential humans to have ever lived.  Had Asperger’s Syndrome (a type of autism).  Derived the Theory of Relativity.

13 Scientist?  Dr. Mae Jemison, degree in Chemical Engineering and Doctor of Medicine.  First African- American woman to enter space.

14 Scientist?  Charles Darwin, young and old.  Theory of Evolution by Means of Natural Selection.  Published other works on Zoology, Geology, and the Descent of Man.

15 Scientist?  Dian Fossey, field researcher, science author, and anthropologist.  Groundbreaking work with Mountain Gorillas of Africa.

16 Anyone Can Be a Scientist!  Will it be you?? Created by: E. Kovac, 2004 Modified by: J. Lopez, 2010