With a little luck : surprising stories of amazing discoveries / Dennis Brindell Fradin.
Fradin, Dennis B.
2006
Q180.55.D57 F73 2006 (Mapit)
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Title With a little luck : surprising stories of amazing discoveries / Dennis Brindell Fradin.
Author Fradin, Dennis B.
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9780525471967
0525471960
Imprint New York : Dutton Children's Books, c2006.
Language English
Description 183 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number Q180.55.D57 F73 2006
Dewey Decimal Classification 509
Summary Discusses eleven scientific discoveries found as a result of chance events and unexpected laboratory results, from Newton's discovery of gravity after observing an apple fall to Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin when mold landed on a bacteria culture.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references.
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Isaac Newton: the fall of an apple
Mary Anning: the princess of paleontology
Charles Goodyear: the rubber man
Anesthesia: the greatest discovery ever made
Ignaz Semmelweis: doctors wash your hands!
Maria Sanz de Sautuola: the bulls on the ceiling
Alexander Fleming: discoverer of penicillin
Clyde Tombaugh: the search for Planet X
Lise Meitner: the discovery of nuclear fission
Muhammad Ahmed el-Hamed: the Dead Sea Scrolls
Jocelyn Bell: the discovery of pulsars.

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