Discovery Gifts

Great events in Chemistry...

'Put that down your fool! It's a bone of contention.'

Inventing the wheel, hitchhiking.

'Curiosity'

'It must be an entirely different species.'

'It's a wonderful find, and yet there's something suspicious about it.'

"Eureka!"

'At least we're doing our part to bring an end to world hunger.'

At last he had found the Regulatory Guidelines.

'We made something greater than sliced bread, we built a better mousetrap...are we resting on our laurels?'

Intelligent people laugh too!

'It really does look like a giant patchwork quilt from up here.'

"Congratulations, Amruk. You prove they do exist."

The First Stairs

'This changes everything -- I found a loophole in the genetic code!'

'...and like most kids with a chemistry set, I just mixed a little of this and a little of that, so the result was truly a surprise.'

Higgs Boson particles at a training session: "Geneva is a no-fly zone."

'It's so easy, I actually did it!'

Now if we can just figure out how to use this to power that.

'NASA is never going to believe this!'

'It looks like a beaver.' - News Item: Beaver ancestor lived alongside dinosaurs.

Voila! Matter into energy!

'Professor Dinsmore talked about a major breakthrough in his cloning experiments!'

The star hunters

'Man In the Moon'

"It's the start of something, but I'm not sure what."

Research scientist has the word 'Eureka' framed.

A child climbs on a stack of books to reach a large metal key.

'This is quite a thrill. I've never been on electron microscope before.'

'My secret ambition is to find a new element, but to tell the truth, I don't know where to look.'

"I thought it was a breakthrough, but it was only a misplace decimal."

"I invented fire, but maybe I should have figured out what the antidote is."

Kekule was predestined

"Nothing beats going abroad to discover new types of cheese: you have to try Camel Cheese!"

'No wonder this is so hard to translate - it's a note from his doctor.'