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