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“crackpots” who were right: the conclusion
I have been posting a blog series about scientists who were called “crackpots” but eventually turned out to be right. There is a convenient archive of the posts under the tag crackpots-who… more →
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"crackpots" who were right: the conclusion
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wrote 1 year ago: I have been posting a blog series about scientists who were called “crackpots” but event … more →
“crackpots” who were right 17: J Harlen Bretz
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wrote 1 year ago: At the beginning of the 20th century, the prevailing view amongst geologists was that all features o … more →
“crackpots” who were right 16: Barbara McClintock
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wrote 1 year ago: All 15 scientists featured in this series so far have been men and it has been very hard to find a w … more →
“crackpots” who were right 15: Galileo Galilei
wrote 1 year ago: I have tried to keep to recent and relevant cases in my stories of “crackpots” who turne … more →
“crackpots” who were right 14: Carl Woese
wrote 1 year ago: The taxonomy of life first set out by Linnaeus is familiar to anyone who has taken a basic interest … more →
"crackpots" who were right 13: Robbert Goddard
wrote 1 year ago: Today the term ”Rocket Science” is used as a metaphor for any kind of engineering endeav … more →
“crackpots” who were right 12: Georg Ohm
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wrote 1 year ago: The name of Ohm is well-known to electricians and physicists because of Ohm’s Law and the metr … more →
"crackpots" who were right 11: Stanley Prusiner
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wrote 1 year ago: In 1982 Stanley Prusiner introduced the term “Prion” to describe a new kind of infectiou … more →
"crackpots" who were right 10: Roger Apéry
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wrote 2 years ago: Up to now our series on people who were regarded as ”crackpots” but who turned out to be … more →
"crackpots" who were right 9: Karl Jansky
wrote 2 years ago: In 1930 astronomers studied the heavens using only optical telescopes. Today things are very differe … more →
"crackpots" who were right 8: James Lovelock
wrote 2 years ago: James Lovelock is the first scientist in this series who is still alive. This also means that some o … more →
"crackpots" who were right 7: Fritz Zwicky
wrote 2 years ago: Fritz Zwicky was a Swiss astronomer who worked most of his life at Caltech in the US. He had a good … more →
"crackpots" who were right 6: Abel Niepce de Saint-Victor
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wrote 2 years ago: Who discovered Radioactivity? Every physics student has heard the story of how Henri Becquerel made … more →
“crackpots” who were right 5: Svante Arrhenius
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wrote 2 years ago: Our first four accounts of “crackpots” who were right all had tragic endings, so it is a … more →
"crackpots" who were right 4: Ignaz Semmelweis
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wrote 2 years ago: Like many people these days I have experienced the thrill of tracing my ancestors using some of the … more →
"crackpots" who were right 3: Ernst Stückelberg
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wrote 2 years ago: Baron Ernst Carl Gerlach Stückelberg was one of the most accomplished theoretical physicists of the … more →
“crackpots” who were right 2: Alfred Wegener
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wrote 2 years ago: The story of Alfred Wegener and his theory of continental drift is one of the most cited instances o … more →
“crackpots” who were right 1: Boris Belousov
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wrote 2 years ago: In 1951 Borsi Belousov wrote a manuscript that opened a whole new field of chemistry with profound i … more →
"crackpots" who were right
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wrote 2 years ago: I’m going to run a series of posts here under the heading: “crackpots” who were ri … more →
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