| 100% | FERMI | 5 | Enrico ___, Italian physicist who is known for creating the world's first nuclear reactor and has an element named after him |
| 47% | BOHR | 4 | Niels ___, Danish physicist who is known for his atomic model and has an element named after him |
| 44% | LISE | 4 | ___ Meitner, Austrian-Swedish physicist who is known for her work on nuclear fission and has an element named after her |
| 43% | NOBEL | 5 | Alfred ___, Swedish chemist who is known for inventing dynamite and has an element named after him |
| 33% | CURIE | 5 | Marie and Pierre ___, Polish and French scientists who are known for their research on radioactivity and have an element named after them |
| 31% | RUTHERFORD | 10 | Scientist and physicist Ernest ___ after whom the element Rf with atomic number 104 is named |
| 29% | MOTHERTERESA | 12 | Canonized nun who is known for her work in India and has a "family" name: 2 wds. |
| 29% | FERMI | 5 | Physicist Enrico after whom element #100 is named |
| 28% | VESPUCCI | 8 | Italian voyager after whom the New World was named |
| 28% | HARDAWAY | 8 | Tim ___, former basketball player who is known for the "UTEP two step" move and had his No. 10 jersey retired by Miami Heat |
| 27% | BOHR | 4 | Physicist with an element named after him |
| 27% | MARCOPOLO | 9 | Venetian explorer, who is known to be the first to have detailed accounts of travel to, and about China: 2 wds. |
| 27% | FERMIUM | 7 | Element with atomic the number 100 which was named after an Italian-American pioneer of nuclear physics |
| 27% | ERNEST | 6 | ___ Rutherford, New Zealand born physicist after whom the element with atomic number 104 was named |
| 27% | DYLANDREILING | 13 | 19-Across outfielder who had a .341 season batting average and was named MVP of the 2024 Men's College World Series (2 wds.) |
| 26% | LEONA | 5 | Physicist Woods who was the only women on Enrico Fermi's team that built the first nuclear reactor |
| 26% | MARIECURIE | 10 | Scientist and chemist after whom the element Cm with atomic number 96 is named: 2 wds. |
| 26% | DORIA | 5 | Andrea ___, admiral known as the liberator of Genoa for whom an ill-fated ship was named |
| 26% | FERMI | 5 | Enrico —, Italian nuclear physicist who headed the group that produced the first controlled nuclear reaction |
| 26% | HANKGREENBERG | 13 | Detroit Tigers slugger who was the first player named MLB MVP for two different fielding positions (outfield and first base) (2 wds.) |
| 25% | AMP | 3 | Physicist Andre-Marie (1775-1836), known as the "father of electrodynamics" who had this electricall unit named after him, for short |
| 25% | ENO | 3 | Musician Brian who has an asteroid named after him |
| 25% | NEIL | 4 | First name in NASA's prestigious list of astronauts who have been to the moon |
| 25% | MALALA | 6 | Young Pakistani activist, ___ Yousafzai, who is known for advocating female education and is the youngest Nobel Prize laureate |
| 25% | FERMI | 5 | Physicist Enrico who was honored by having a length unit of 10-15 meters named after him |
| 25% | GAUSS | 5 | Physicist for whom an induction unit is named |
| 24% | POE | 3 | The Mystery Writers of America have an award named after him |
| 24% | PAVLOV | 6 | Ivan ___, figure studied in Psychology who is known for his experiments with dogs and is an unexpected memory from school |
| 24% | DOMEE | 5 | Shi who was the first woman to have the sole director’s credit on a Pixar feature, for “Turning Red” |
| 24% | VOLTA | 5 | Italian scientist after whom an electrical unit is named |