Some Widely Told Episodes to Investigate:
- Gregor Mendel & his 7 pea traits
- Robert Millikan & his oil drop experiment
- Dmitri Mendeleev & his predicted elements
- Louis Pasteur & the swan-necked flasks
- Louis Pasteur & the anthrax vaccine
- J.J. Thomson & the discovery of the electron
- Alexander Fleming & the discovery of penicillin
- the Huxley-Wilberforce debate
- Barbara McClintock & the "lost" discovery of transposons
- Ignaz Semmelweis & handwashing
- Michelson-Morley & the rejection of the ether
- H.B.D. Kettlewell & the peppered moths
- Arthur Eddington & the Sobral eclipse
- any eponymous law or term -- for example, Snel's Law of Refraction; Avogadro's number; Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium; amp (Ampere), volt (Alexander Volta), ohm, henry, dalton, the Pythagorean theorem
- Nobel Prize winner & their discovery?
- other(s)!
last revised Sept. 22, 2004
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