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What's your favorite story from the history of science?

>> No.9931048

Booooooriiiiing

>> No.9931333

bump

>> No.9931481

>>9931010
WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO MAJORANA

>> No.9931984

Hardy goes to visit Ramanujan in the hospital and mentions the number of his taxi was 14.
"I'm afraid that riding in a cab with such a dull number is an ill omen," Hardy says.
Ramanujan replies, "No, not at all; 14 is a very interesting number. It is the only one which can be written as the product of 7 and 2 in two different ways."

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>> No.9932542

>>9931481
>WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO MAJORANA
He realized he was his own evil twin.

>> No.9933119

>>9931010
One of the very first, the progenitor of the scientific process: the invention of the Davy safety lamp.