Great Experiments that Changed Our World

Harvard FAS

In what ways does reliving 10 groundbreaking scientific experiments teach us how our own efforts can remake the world?Facing the edifice of preexisting knowledge, how are breakthrough scientific discoveries made that contradict the existing canon? Ten great experiments that have transformed our understanding of nature will guide us, first through immersion in the scholarship and popular beliefs of the time. Next, how did the discoverer prepare? What were the motivations, prior experiences,…