The document profiles various scientists from different backgrounds and fields of study to show that scientists come from all walks of life. It highlights scientists such as Bill Nye who brought science to television, Stephen Hawking who developed theories about the universe while living with motor neuron disease, and Dian Fossey who did groundbreaking work studying gorillas in Africa. The purpose is to show that anyone, regardless of gender, ethnicity, abilities or interests can become a scientist.

1. 1
What does a
scientist look
like?

2. 2
Scientist?
 What leads you to
believe that this man
may be a scientist?

3. 3
Scientist?
 Eddie Murphy as The
Nutty Professor

4. 4
Scientist?
 Sponge Bob Square
Pants
 Burger Flipper

5. 5
Scientist?
 Stephen Hillenburg
Marine Biologist
 Sponge Bob’s
Creator

6. 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. 7
Scientist?
 Dr. Bruce Jackson
 Co-founder of the
African-American
DNA Roots Project.

8. 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. 9
Scientist?
 Anna McGowan
 A scientist at NASA
 She leads a research
group that is
developing material
to allow airplane
wings to repair
themselves

10. 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

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

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

13. 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. 14
Scientist?
 Dian Fossey as a
young adult.

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

16. Anyone Can Be a Scientist!
 Will it be you??
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Created by: E. Kovac, 2004