Legend has it that a German scientist discovered methyl anthranilate, one of the first artificial flavours, by accident while mixing chemicals in his laboratory.
In one story line, the publication exhaustively covered Bat Boy, a yowling half-bat, half-baby that a scientist discovered in a cave.
Kluger tells us that one scientist discovered that less-favored siblings were "more likely to develop anxiety, low self-esteem and depression"; another, that children of divorce were likely to be unhappier than children of the happily married.
Mr. Pappas, who narrates the film, tells of reading articles in The New York Times four years ago about the molecular biology of calorie restriction and how David Sinclair, a Harvard scientist, discovered resveratrol, a substance in the skin of grapes that produced some of the same benefits.
As it turns out, the molecules are moved around the cell in small packages called vesicles, and each scientist discovered different facets of what is needed to ensure that the right cargo is shipped to the correct destination at precisely the right time.
Between 1672 and 1677 the Dutch scientist discovered, thanks to his observations with the microscope, the existence of Protista, bacteria, and spermatozoa, and so he opened the way to microbiology.
