Below is list of important scientific experiments and the scientist who conducted them. Choose one experiment and discuss how they used the scientific method to prove or disprove them as instructed in the discussion question.
- Scientist Discovery/Experiment
- Robert Koch Germ Theory
- Edward Jenner Vaccinations
- Gregor Mendel Rules of Heredity
- Thomas Hunt Morgan Genes are on Chromosomes
- Galileo Galilei Law of Falling Objects
- Richard Oldham Earth's core
- Frederick Hopkins Vitamins are Essential to Health
- Matthew Meselson & Franklin Stahl Semi-Conservative Replication of DNA
- Harold Varmus & Michael Bishop Discovery of Oncogenes
- Humphry Davy Electricity Transforms Chemicals
- Victor Hess Radiation Comes From Space
- Harry Hess Seafloor Spreading
- Stanley Miller & Harold Urey Origin of Organic Compounds on Earth
- Alfred Hershey & Martha Chase DNA is Heredity Material
- Louis Pateur Spontaneous Generation
- Alexander Flemming Penicillin
- Alfred Wegener Continental Drift
- Anton Von Leeuwenhoek Microorganisms