| APPLETON | Sir Edward___; English physicist awarded a Nobel prize for discovering the ionosphere (8) |
| INSULIN | John Macleod, who taught for years at CWRU forerunner Western Reserve, won a 1923 Nobel Prize for discovering this hormone |
| TAU | Martin Lewis Perl won the 1995 Nobel physics prize for discovering this type of lepton |
| EINSTEIN | Albert -; scientist awarded a Nobel Prize for his discovery of the photoelectric effect (8) |
| ASTON | Physicist awarded a Nobel Prize for invention of the mass spectrograph (5) |
| RAMAN | Indian physicist awarded a Nobel Prize for work in the field of light-scattering (5) |
| LAUE | Max von -; physicist awarded a Nobel Prize for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals (4) |
| FERMI | Enrico, Italian nuclear physicist awarded a Nobel prize for physics in 1938 (5) |
| GABRIELA | Chilean poet; the first Latin American to receive a Nobel Prize for Literature (1945) |
| BETHE | Hans ___, German-American physicist awarded a Nobel Prize in 1967 'for his contributions to the theory of nuclear reactions' (5) |
| CRICK | Biophysicist awarded a Nobel Prize with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins for discovering the double |
| POLONIUM | Marie Curie is known for discovering 2 elements: radium and ___ |
| ROGERPENROSE | British physicist awarded a Nobel prize this year |
| VOCATION | One's calling havoc at ionosphere's inclusion (8) |
| SOUNDINGBOARD | An acoustic device for discovering the opinion of the directors! (8-5) |
| ALBERTEINSTEIN | German-born physicist awarded the Nobel prize for physics in 1921 (6,8) |
| NAIPAUL | Awarded a Nobel Prize in 2001, a Trinidad-born Oxford-educated novelist who wrote A House for Mr Biswas, In a Free State and The Enigma of Arrival (7) |
| HEMINGWAY | Ernest a"; awarded a Nobel Prize in 1954, author of The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls (9) |
| PLANCK | Scientist awarded a Nobel Prize for his contribution to the advancement of physics by his discovery |
| MACLEOD | Scottish physiologist awarded a Nobel Prize for his role in directing the research by F. G. Banting |
