| ARTHURCOMPTON | US physicist and Nobel Laureate (1927, with Charles Wilson) noted for his research on X-rays, and nuclear energy (6,7) |
| ABAC | Melody sequence of Hoagy j Carmichael's "Stardust" (1927), with a verse preceding the refrain |
| MODIGLIANI | Artist who created many paintings during his brief life including Redheaded Girl in Evening Dress, Jeanne Hebuterne in Red Shawl and Nu Couche (one of the most expensive paintings ever sold) (10) |
| ENRICOFERMI | Italian-born US physicist and Nobel Laureate who directed the first controlled nuclear chain reaction in 1942 (6,5) |
| HENRIMATISSE | Artist whose works include La Danse and Nu bleu |
| ETA | Letter halfway between alpha and nu |
| ALVAREZ | Luis ___, US physicist and Nobel Laureate (1968) (7) |
| OWENCHAMBERLAIN | US physicist and Nobel Prize-winner, 1920-2006 (4,11) |
| PEALE | First presidential portraitist Charles Wilson ___ |
| RMT | Rail union formed by the merger of the NUR and NUS (initials) (3) |
| FEYNMAN | Richard ___, US physicist noted for his research on quantum electrodynamics; Nobel Prize for Physics (1965) |
| NEEL | Louis, French scientist noted for his research on magnetism who shared the 1970 Nobel prize for physics (4) |
| KOCH | Which Robert was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1905 for his research on tuberculosis? (4) |
| PAULING | The only person to have won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry and for Peace, and known for his research in quantum chemistry and molecular biology (last name only) |
| DALTON | John -, English scientist born in 1766 noted for his research into colour blindness (6) |
| RADIOLOGIST | A doctor trained in the use of X-rays and other medical imaging for the diagnosis and treatment of disease (11) |
| HEISENBERG | Werner Karl ___, German physicist and Nobel Laureate who formulated the uncertainty, or indeterminacy, principle in 1927 (10) |
| DIRAC | Paul ___ (1902-84), English physicist and Nobel laureate who predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (5) |
| PETERHIGGS | British theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate associated with the so-called "God particle" (5,5) |
| PAULDIRAC | English theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate (1902-1984) who predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (4,5) |
