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Science in Swindon
It is very common to name roads and buildings after famous people. Swindon
has many examples commemorating famous scientists and engineers. North
Swindon names reflect aspects of the space program.
Identify the following examples from the clues.
1) French couple giving their name to a non-SI unit of radioactivity.
- - - - - Avenue, SN1
2) Program run by NASA and JPL that launched a series of robotic interplanetary probes.
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3) French scientist who invented a rabies vaccine and a way of keeping milk from going off.
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4) American inventor of the phonograph, the motion picture camera and electric light bulb.
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5) English scientist who discovered electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism and electrolysis.
- - - - - - - Road, SN3
6) Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher; a major player in the
scientific revolution. Also features in 'Bohemian Rhapsody'!
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7) An influential English scientist who contributed to the fields of physics, mathematics and
philosophy. Famous for his laws of motion.
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8) English physician who described how the heart pumps blood round the body though
arteries and veins.
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9) English 'Father of the Industrial Revolution', who invented the spinning frame and carding
engine.
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10) British naturalist, scientist, and a chemist and physicist, who discovered "inflammable air"
or hydrogen.
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11) English inventor of an electric telegraph and contributor to photography, electrical
generators, encryption, acoustics and music. His bridge is famous!
- - - - - - - - - - Road, SN3
12) 1992 joint satellite mission (NASA & the French space agency CNES) to map ocean
surface topography.
It's name is a clue!
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13) 1970s spacecraft exploring the Sun, Jupiter, Saturn and Venus. Famous for carrying a
pair of gold-anodized aluminium plaques in case intercepted by extraterrestrial life.
- - - - - - - Road, SN25
14) European Space Agency robotic spacecraft built and launched to perform a detailed study
of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. It's just been woken up!
- - - - - - - Close, SN25
15) Gives its name to an unmanned NASA-ESA-ASI robotic spacecraft sent to the Saturn
system, also observing Jupiter, the heliosphere, and testing the theory of relativity.
- - - - - - - Drive, SN25
16) A series of spacecraft initially designed for the Soviet space programme by the Korolyov
Design Bureau in the 1960s, and still in service today.
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17) A highly magnetized, rotating neutron star that emits a beam of electromagnetic radiation.
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18) Twin spacecraft launched in 1977. In August 2012, one made the historic entry into
interstellar space - outside or solar system.
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19) Russian modular space station that operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001.
- - - Crescent, SN25
20) American astronomer, regarded as one of the most important cosmologists of the 20th
century.
He has a space telescope named after him.
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