| 100% | ABNEY | 5 | William de Wiveleslie —, scientist after whom surveying instrument the topographic — level is named |
| 100% | ABNEY | 5 | William de Wiveleslie -, scientist after whom surveying instrument the topographic - level is named |
| 92% | ABNEY | 5 | William de Wiveleslie —, scientist after whom the surveying instrument a topographic — level is named |
| 79% | ABNEY | 5 | William de Wiveleslie —, scientist after whom the topographic — level is named |
| 40% | MOHS | 4 | Friedrich —, German scientist after whom a scale for expressing the hardness of minerals is named |
| 37% | CURIUM | 6 | Element with atomic number 96 which was named after scientists who were extensively involved in the field of radioactivity |
| 36% | VOLTA | 5 | Italian scientist after whom an electrical unit is named |
| 36% | MARIECURIE | 10 | Scientist and chemist after whom the element Cm with atomic number 96 is named: 2 wds. |
| 34% | VINCE | 5 | Lombardi after whom the Super Bowl trophy is named |
| 34% | RUTHERFORD | 10 | Scientist and physicist Ernest ___ after whom the element Rf with atomic number 104 is named |
| 34% | BAFFIN | 6 | William —, 17th-century navigator after whom — Bay in the Northwest Passage west of Greenland is named |
| 34% | OHM | 3 | Georg Simon ___, German physicist after whom the unit of electrical resistance was named |
| 33% | OHM | 3 | Georg Simon ___, physicist after whom the unit of resistance is named |
| 33% | LALANDE | 7 | Jerome —, French astronomer after whom a crater on the Moon is named |
| 33% | BROCA | 5 | Scientist for whom a part of the brain is named |
| 33% | ATLAS | 5 | Titan after whom one of the oceans is named |
| 32% | SHEA | 4 | Attorney William after whom a stadium is named |
| 32% | POE | 3 | Poet whom the Edgar Award is named after |
| 32% | PLIMSOLL | 8 | Samuel —, 19th-century British politician after whom the load line on a ship is named |
| 32% | ERNEST | 6 | ___ Rutherford, New Zealand born physicist after whom the element with atomic number 104 was named |
| 32% | LOMBARDI | 8 | Vince —, American football coach after whom the trophy for the Super Bowl championship game is named |
| 32% | RICHTER | 7 | Charles —, US seismologist after whom a scale for expressing the magnitude of an earthquake is named |
| 31% | SAM | 3 | Houston after whom the Texas city is named |
| 31% | POE | 3 | Writer after whom the Edgar Award is named |
| 31% | HENRY | 5 | Hudson after whom the Hudson River is named |
| 31% | PERRY | 5 | Antoinette after whom the Tony Awards are named |
| 31% | MORPHEUS | 8 | Greek god whom the drug morphine was named after |
| 31% | BOHRIUM | 7 | Element with atomic number 107 which was named after a Danish physicist who studied the structure of atoms |
| 30% | MOLOTOV | 7 | Vyacheslav —, Soviet political leader after whom the — cocktail bomb, is named |