Nobel Laureate Crossword Puzzle 1920 - 1930

This series of puzzles can be completed individually or in groups, and it can be used in a classroom setting or given as homework. And don’t forget, there are always a few parents and other family members that might enjoy the activity. 

Nobel Prizes 1920 - 1930

ACROSS

2. Vitamin B6 is called ______ and helps form red blood cells.

3. In 1924 the Nobel Prize in chemistry was not awarded. The previous decade witnessed a World War that impacted all levels of society. The roaring 20's was a period of increased wealth, a mass migration from farms to cities, the introduction of new music (jazz) and dances (the _____), and the inception of prohibition.

7. In a mass spectromter (MS), ions are generated using an _____ field and focused with a magnetic field. A neutral species, atomic or molecular, cannot be focused or aimed at the MS detector with a magnetic field.

9. In 1921 Albert Einstein won the Nobel Prize in Physics for the ____________effect. He is more famous for his work developing Special Relativity and could have also won it for this work with Brownian motion. Einstein was a theortical physicist.

12. The 1923 Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded to Fritz Pregl for his work with developing methods associated with quantitative ______ micro-analysis.

14. Related to 1930 Nobel Prize in Chemistry; Hemin is a ______ containing a ferric iron (Fe(III)) ion linked to a chloride ion. Porphyrins are essential for the function of hemoglobin.

17. Yeasts are _______, single-celled microorganisms that are part of the fungus kingdom. _______ cells have a nucleus and are in animals, plants, and fungi.

22. In 1923 Frederick Banting and John Macleod won the Nobel Prize for Physiology/Medicine for the discovery of ______.

26. ______235 and _______238 can be detected by mass spectrometry because they have different m/z ratios, but in many cases they will have the same charge (+1).

27. The 1929 Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to Louis de ____  for the discovery of the wave nature of electrons. In his 1924 PhD thesis, de ______ outlined the wave nature of electrons. He also suggested all particles has wave properties.

28. Vitamin K prevents blood cells from sticking together, also called ________.

30. In 1925 the Nobel was awarded for the development and fundamental understanding of _____. The prize was awarded to Richard Adolf Zsigmondy.

32. Insulin is synthesized by a ______ , and controls the glucose concentration in your serum.

33. In 1912 approximately 15 % of U.S. households had ______; by 1925, it jumped to over 60 %. The widespread distribution of power helped the chemical industry immensely.

34. Arthur _____ was a co-recipient of the 1929 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Some of his work was on glycolysis reactions in yeast. Glycolysis is a pathway that transforms glucose into pyruvate.

35. Pregls techniques could measure the mass percent of arbon, chlorine, hydrogen, nitrogen, and sulfur in samples very accurately and precisely. He also developed a______ that could measure masses at the microgram level (note, there were no electronics in the 1920's). 

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1. The sterols are a group of naturally occurring unsaturated steroid ______ with many of them being waxy solids.

2. de Broglie Equation has a constant symbolized by and "h" and has the units Joules seconds.  "h" is the ______ constant.

4. Vitamin D is also called the ______ vitamin.  Vit. D is synthesized in the body when skin is exposed to the sun. Typically 15 minutes of sunshine 3 times a week produces enough Vit D.

5. The 1927 Nobel Prize in chemistry was centered on the chemical composition of ____ acids. Heinrich Otto Wieland was the recipient.

6. ______ is a disorder that occurs when there is a increase of natural chemicals that produce porphyrin.

8. m/z or mass/____ is used as a unit in mass spectrometry.  For example, water molecule has a mass of 18 g/mol and would need a +1 charge to be detected in a mass spec. This is achieved by knocking an electron from the water molecule:  H₂O⁺ electrical field ==> H₂O⁺

10. Soddy, the 1921 Nobel Laureate, was one of several scientists credited with the discovery of the element  ________ in 1917.  Its elemental symbol is Pa. It is an actinide and its longest lived isotope Pa-231, has a half-life of 32,000 years.

11. Today mass spectrometers are used as a detector, while LC or liquid ________ is the method of separation in a LC-MS.

13. In 1921 Frederick _____ was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work with isotopes and radioactivity. He worked at Oxford, which is in England.

15. A ____ consists of minut, insoluble particles that are evenly dispersed and suspended in another substance. An example of this is milk with protein and fat aggregates suspended in the liquid phase.

16. Vitamin D is a group of fat-soluble ________. They increase  absorption of Ca, Mg, and phosphate in the GI tract. The most important Vitamin D's are D3 and D2.

18. LC-MS is widely used in many fields of science and technology as a chemical identification technique.  Groups of molecules such as herbicides, pesticides, dyes, polymers, genetic (DNA, RNA), proteins, carboyslates, fatty acids, elements, and _______ are widely studied both qualatitively and quantitvely by LC-MS.

19. Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin was a co-recipient of the 1929 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for setting a foundation that resulted in the understanding of the processes occuring in _____ related to the supply of energy.

20. The theory of relativity  has two components; Special relativity and general relativity.  They were first proposed in 1905 and published in 1915. Special relativity applies to systems where ______ is not considered.

21. Adolf  Windaus won the 1928 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work with ______.  His work included the synthesis of vitamin D.

23. Francis W. Aston was awarded the Nobel chemistry prize in 1922 primarily for his invention of the mass ______.  It measures the mass to charge ratio using a magnetic field operated at very low pressures (i.e. < 0.000001 atm's).

24. Fritz Pregl outlined his work in monographs entitled Die quantitative ______ (s).  These were several hundred pages long and attracted attention internationally.

25. The 1927 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1927 was awarded for a treatment of ______, a mosquito borne disease. Julius Wagner-Jauregg was the recipient. During World War 2, 1/2 million US tropps in the Pacific and SE Asia theaters were infected with the parasitic disease.

29. Manne Siegbahn won the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with  _____spectra and their generation and interaction with atoms.  As a region x-rays have less energy than gamma rays, and more energy than UV, Visible and IR light (aka electromagnetic radiation).

31. The 1930 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Hans Fischer for his work with _______ (aka Hemin) and chlorophyll.