/sci/ - Science & Math

>begone from this domain, woman

In a basic chemistry lab I had in community college my professor stressed the importance of good lab notebook technique. He instructed us to never erase anything we write down, but to strike it out with a single line. He wanted to prepare us for real lab scenarios and he used a story about Marie Curie to drive his point home. He told the class that Marie Curie never erased any of her notes and that when she had written down something that was a mistake she would strike it out as we were instructed to do. My professor told us that she had ended up going through some of her old lab notebooks and double checking some work she initially thought must have been a mistake and it lead to her discovering a new element.

My question is if anybody else knows anything about this, if it is a factual story? If so, I would like to know further details.

If this isn't bait, you've completely misunderstood -why- video tutorials are usually bad.