Mar 15, 2020 07:32 PM
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https://www.howitworksdaily.com/british-...the-world/
EXCERPT: During British Science Week, take a look back at investigations that shaped science, providing the fundamental knowledge we rely on today.
1. Cavendish weighs the world. Not only did the solitary and eccentric Henry Cavendish discover hydrogen, but he also successfully measured the weight of the world. [...]
2. Fleming's accidental discovery of penicillin. In 1928, at St Mary’s Hospital in London, Alexander Fleming was busy investigating the bacterium, Staphylococcus aureus. The bacteria had been wreaking havoc, causing fatal infections, and there was no medicine at the time to treat them. [...]
3. Rutherford strikes gold. It was previously believed that the structure of the atom was a sphere of positive charge housing smaller negatively charged electrons within it, like plums within a pudding. To test the accuracy of this ‘plum pudding’ model — under the direction of Ernest Rutherford [...]
4. James Lind cures sailors' scurvy. Bleeding gums, your teeth dropping out, weak limbs, swollen legs and nasty patches of blood under your skin – a pirate’s life probably wouldn’t have been ideal for most of us. Scurvy was one of the diseases that plagued pirates and sailors in the early days of seafaring. [...] (MORE - details of the experiment accounts)
EXCERPT: During British Science Week, take a look back at investigations that shaped science, providing the fundamental knowledge we rely on today.
1. Cavendish weighs the world. Not only did the solitary and eccentric Henry Cavendish discover hydrogen, but he also successfully measured the weight of the world. [...]
2. Fleming's accidental discovery of penicillin. In 1928, at St Mary’s Hospital in London, Alexander Fleming was busy investigating the bacterium, Staphylococcus aureus. The bacteria had been wreaking havoc, causing fatal infections, and there was no medicine at the time to treat them. [...]
3. Rutherford strikes gold. It was previously believed that the structure of the atom was a sphere of positive charge housing smaller negatively charged electrons within it, like plums within a pudding. To test the accuracy of this ‘plum pudding’ model — under the direction of Ernest Rutherford [...]
4. James Lind cures sailors' scurvy. Bleeding gums, your teeth dropping out, weak limbs, swollen legs and nasty patches of blood under your skin – a pirate’s life probably wouldn’t have been ideal for most of us. Scurvy was one of the diseases that plagued pirates and sailors in the early days of seafaring. [...] (MORE - details of the experiment accounts)