Linked List — Women In Science

Sayan Saha
Nov 12, 2025

Linked List is a general science-based word game. The rules are straightforward.

  1. The goal is to guess eleven words that have been drawn from science.
  2. The first word (the seed) will be provided to you, and hints and number of letters will be provided for the remaining words.
  3. You are also informed that the first letter of any word is the last letter of the previous word. So the first letter of the second word will
  4. the last letter of the seed word, the first letter of the third word is the last letter of the second word, and so on.
  5. This property goes all the way, so that the last letter of the last (eleventh) word is also the first letter of the seed word.
As always, the cover image is a clue to the first word. Find all the words!

Seed Word: Kadambini Ganguly

Next word should start with: y. Last word should end with: K.

Rocket propulsion engineer who invented the satellite station-keeping thruster that revolutionized spaceflight stability
Physicist who explained the process of nuclear fission, contributing key insight that transformed atomic science
Chemist and crystallographer whose X-ray diffraction image revealed the helical structure of DNA
ISRO mission engineer who helped drive India’s Mars Orbiter Mission through cutting-edge space navigation and systems work
Mathematician who advanced applied probability and pioneered early work in the theory of plasticity—her calculations helped shape modern mathematical physics.
Nobel-winning neurobiologist who discovered Nerve Growth Factor (NGF), uncovering how neurons grow, survive, and communicate.
Indian gynecologist who achieved the country’s first test-tube baby and pioneered the Gamete Intrafallopian Transfer (GIFT) technique.
Chemist who created the first effective treatment for leprosy—the ‘Ball Method’ that transformed chaulmoogra oil into an injectable therapy.
Professor of computer science at Brandeis University. Accredited with having coined the phrase "promise" when referring to the completion (or failure) of an asynchronous operation for the JavaScript programming language
Cognitive scientist who revealed how babies learn through exploration—pioneering the ‘theory theory’ of child development and early learning.