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Scientists and Inventors Crossword Puzzle

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A crossword compiled to meet a challenge in the Author's Lounge. Including scientists, inventors and various scientific terms.
Author: moonraker2 - Diff: Harder

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      1. Awarded the Nobel prize for chemistry in 1911, Marie ___ (5)
      4. Carl ___, German chemist awarded The Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1931 (5)
      7. A crater on Jupiter's moon Callisto (3)
      8. American chemist, author of "Numerical Modeling of Water Waves" Charles L. ___ (5)
      9. One of the six inert gases, which comprises 1% of the earth's atmosphere (5)
      10. "___ & Ego" is a book by J. M. W. Slack aimed at Biology students, published in 1999 (3)
      11. A principle or belief, one of the main principles of philosophy (5)
      14. The 1954 manual "Theoretical Elasticity" was written jointly by Wolfgang Zerna and Albert E. ___ (5)
      17. The brightest star in the constellation Orion (5)
      20. A negatively charged ion, one that would be attracted to the anode in electrolysis (5)
      23. A section of a curve, graph, or geometric figure (3)
      24. Carl Friedrich ___, awarded the 1809 Lalande Prize for scientific advances in astronomy (5)
      25. In astronomy, the dark central part of a sunspot (5)
      26. The longest division of geological time (3)
      27. The 1895 work "La Folie de Misčre" was by the French philosopher Han ___ (5)
      28. American ecologist Warder Clyde ___ authored the 1949 book "Principles of Animal Ecology" (5)

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      1. A celestial object consisting of a nucleus of ice and dust (5)
      2. A radioactive element of the rare gas group (5)
      3. Georg Dionysius ___, botanist whose works included "Methodus Plantarum Sexualis" in 1736 (5)
      4. Family name of the father and son who shared The Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915 (5)
      5. Emilio ___ was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1959 (5)
      6. "The Dead Sea scrolls and the Hasmonean state" is a 2004 book by archaeologist ___ Eshel (5)
      12. Published in 2010, "___ and the Rhino Scientist" was written by Mary Kay Carson (3)
      13. "The Human ___: Structure and Function" by Clyde W. Oyster, was published in 2006 (3)
      15. Another name given to the star Epsilon Eridani (3)
      16. One of the three concepts in Sigmund Freud's structural model of the psyche (3)
      17. ___ Penrose shared the 1988 Wolf Prize for physics with Stephen Hawking (5)
      18. A subatomic particle of a class that is thought to bind quarks together (5)
      19. Tool that creates a strong light beam in an excited energy state (5)
      20. Mathematician Francisco Javier González ___ drafted "Knot surgery and primeness" in 2008 (5)
      21. "Bigyan o Gonit Somogro" is a 2011 work by Bangladeshi physicist Muhammad Jafor ___ (5)
      22. Michael ___, was president of the Behavior Genetics Association from 2009-2010 (5)