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
Burger Flipper

5. Scientist?
Stephen Hillenburg Marine Biologist
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 (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."

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

10. 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
Scientist?

11. Scientist?
Ellen Ochoa
Astronaut – First Hispanic-American Woman in Space

12. Scientist? Albert Einstein Asperger’s Syndrome (a type of autism)
Theory of Relativity
E=mc2

13. Scientist?
Dr. Mae Jemison, degree in chemical engineering and Doctor of Medicine
First African-American woman to enter space
Grew up in Chicago!

14. Scientist?
Dian Fossey as a young adult.

15. Scientist? Dian Fossey as an adult.
Field researcher and anthropologist.
Groundbreaking work with Mountain Gorillas of Africa.
Scientist?

16. Anyone Can Be a Scientist!
Will it be you??
Not all scientists look the way you would expect them to…we are all scientists in our own way.
Created by: E. Kovac, 2004