Favorite Science Experiments
Post any you think I’ve missed in the comments!
Mathematics
Paper – Duncan J. Watts & Steven H. Strogatz – Collective dynamics of ‘small-world’ networks – 45000
Physics
- Eratosthenes’s measurement of Earth’s circumference
- Michelson’s Speed of Light
- Becquerel’s discovery of radiation
- Toyabe’s ‘Bead Staircase’
- Jai Singh II and Jantar Mantar
- Antikythera mechanism
Chemistry
- Haber-Bosch Process – Quadrupled population, uses 1-2% of world’s energy
- Millikan’s Oil Drop