| RAMAN | Indian physicist whose discovery of how light is scattered by molecules won him the Nobel Prize in 1930. This scattering effect is named for him. |
| BUSHEL | A measure of how light is modestly occluded |
| GALVANI | Italian physician and physicist whose discovery of the twitching of frogs' legs in an electric field |
| ESAKI | Japanese quantum physicist whose discovery of electron tunnelling led to his design of the tunnel diode (5) |
| ONDIM | How lights may be set while wooing |
| ANDYGARCIA | Actor whose role as Vincent Mancini in The Godfather Part III won him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (4,6) |
| MACH | Austrian physicist whose name has been given to the ratio of the speed of flow of a gas to the speed of sound (4) |
| NEWTON | First to describe gravity whose discovery that white light is made up of a mixture of colours is described in his treatise Opticks (6) |
| RAMSAY | Nobel Laureate chemist whose discovery of the noble gases (including argon jointly with Lord Rayleigh) added a new group to the periodic table (6) |
| SIMON | Conceptual artist whose work Shedboatshed (Mobile Architecture No 2) won him the 2005 Turner Prize (5,8) |
| NEILGAIMAN | English author and screenwriter whose work The Graveyard Book won him the Newbery and Carnegie medals: 2 wds. |
| SIMONSTARLING | Conceptual artist whose work Shedboatshed (Mobile Architecture No 2) won him the 2005 Turner Prize |
| NERNST | German chemist Walther ____’s heat theorem is a partial statement of the third law of thermodynamics and won him a 1920 Nobel prize |
| BERNARDSHAW | Irish playwright George ___ whose volume of work including Man and Superman won him a Nobel Prize in Literature: 2 wds. |
| ALAN | Music composer and songwriter ___ Menken whose song Under the Sea from the movie The Little Mermaid won him an Oscar in 1989 |
| TORRICELLI | Italian physicist whose invention of the mercury barometer in 1643 contributed towards the proof of |
| BUNTHORNE | Patience won him the potential of the unborn |
| FLEMING | Scottish bacteriologist whose discovery of penicillin and its effects was further developed by Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain (7) |
| BUNSEN | Inventor of a gas burner whose discovery of an antidote for arsenic poisoning saved his life (6) |
| ELTONJOHN | Singer-songwriter whose song Can You Feel the Love Tonight from the movie The Lion King won him an Oscar in 1994: 2 wds. |
