Surnames of famous Scientists and Engineers. Bonus points for knowing what they are famous for.
Almost a valiant vapour
Nobel
A stiff neck for Holmes’ friend
Crick and Watson – Discovered DNA double - helix
Look through cedar windows
Darwin – Developed theory of evolution
Unused heavy weight
Newton – Laws of motion and gravity
Cut down
Whittle – Inventor of the jet engine
Sounds like he’s worth £10
Jenner – Discovered vaccination
Experimenting with phone nests
Stephenson – Father of the railways
It’s not a northerly turning
Turing – Code breaker and mathematician
An incomplete barrel maker stole you and me
Copernicus – Proposed earth went round the sun
Vend melee disrupted!
Mendeleev – Invented Periodic Table
Beryllium 50 50 compound
Bell – Inventor of the telephone
Review Site Nine
Einstein – Theory of Relativity
Sounds like a frosty ruler
Hawkin g – Theoretical physicist and mathematician
Confusion made riches
Archimedes – Mathematician
500 started the sea force
Davy – Inventor of the miners lamp
Mined slate
Tesla – Physicist – invented AC
What a distance in 24 hours
Maybe ‘e’s not a fraud
Freud – Psychologist
Mr Stobart’s child
Edison – Inventor of the incandescent light bulb
Shakespeare’s all-encompassing ego
Baird – Inventor of Television
Boron, Ruthenium, Neon and a dash of Lithium
Brunel – Heavy Engineering
Could be a bleak place
Moore – Astronomer
British open horse racing initial gathering
Bohr – Atomic structure and quantum theory
Father five had no end of love
Pavlov – Physiological conditioning
Sang a mix
There’s no end to harm with old leg armour
Hargreaves – inventor of the Spinning Jenny
Western Aeronautics Top Trumps!
Watt – Improvements to the steam engine
Hello and Cheers without the ole!
Herschel – Discovered Uranus
E-phone prime the confusing new technology
Oppenh e i mer – Led the Manhatten project
True sap?
Pasteur - Pasteurization