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Newton, Prisms and the Nature of Colour
Prism experiments, contested interpretation and the changing understanding of light in the seventeenth century.
Topic
Historical Scientific Discoveries
Key discoveries and conceptual shifts in science, presented through laboratory practice, evidence and later interpretation.
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Faraday and Electromagnetic Induction
How laboratory demonstrations in 1831 established principles later used in generators and transformers.
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Pasteur, Swan-Neck Flasks and Germ Theory
Laboratory practice, contamination control and the debate over spontaneous generation.
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Plate Tectonics from Drift to Global Framework
From contested continental drift to the synthesis of seafloor spreading, faults and global seismic data.
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DNA Double Helix and X-ray Evidence
Model building, fibre diffraction and contested credit in the discovery of DNA structure.