The director of St. Petersburg's Institute of Experimental Medicine until his 1936 death; his name ring a bell?
This French physicist wasn't the pits with his 1851 "pendulum" that demonstrated the Earth's rotation
This British biologist & model maker who partnered with James Watson passed away on July 29, 2004
John Queeny founded the chemical company Monsanto in St. Louis in 1901 to make this sweetener
A dipole is a molecule in which this is opposite at the 2 poles
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from beside a mummy from Cairo, Egypt.) To remove all the moisture from a body, natron, a variety of this, was applied both inside & outside the corpse
In 1947 Willard Libby perfected the archaeological dating method named for this isotope
Adjective for a substance that evaporates readily; pronounced differently, it follows "sal"
Shagreen, the dried skin of this meat eater, was once used as sandpaper
Unlike most sea animals, in the sea horse this pair of sense organs can move independently of one another