What does a scientist look like?

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What does a scientist look like?
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Scientist?

• What leads you to believe that this man may be a
  scientist?

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Scientist?

• Eddie Murphy as The Nutty Professor

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Scientist?

• Sponge Bob Square Pants
• Burger Flipper

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Scientist?

• Stephen Hillenburg Marine Biologist
• Sponge Bobs Creator

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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."

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Scientist?

• Dr. Bruce Jackson
• Co-founder of the African-American DNA Roots
  Project.

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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."

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Scientist?

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

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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

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Scientist?

• Ellen Ochoa
• Astronaut First Hispanic-American Woman in Space

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Scientist?

• Albert Einstein
• Aspergers Syndrome (a type of autism)
• Theory of Relativity

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Scientist?

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

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Scientist?

• Dian Fossey as a young adult.

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Scientist?

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

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Anyone Can Be a Scientist!

• Will it be you??

Created by E. Kovac, 2004