• Question: What do you think was the greatest science discovery?

    Asked by HAMMY to Deborah, Euan, Maheen, Rob, Stu on 17 Jun 2016.
    • Photo: Maheen Siddiqui

      Maheen Siddiqui answered on 17 Jun 2016:

      Electricity, discovered by Michael Faraday. He was the first person to produce an electric current by moving a wire through a magnetic field. Faraday’s experiment created the first generator, the forerunner of the huge generators that produce our electricity.

    • Photo: Deborah Prunty

      Deborah Prunty answered on 17 Jun 2016:

      Umm… The discovery of penicillin by Alexander Fleming. It was the first known antibiotic and has saved millions of lives since he discovered it in 1928.

    • Photo: Rob Stanley

      Rob Stanley answered on 22 Jun 2016:

      The discovery that genes were made of DNA by James Watson, Francis Crick, Rosalind Franklin, and Maurice Wilkins. We’ve had so many breakthroughs in understanding evolution, health, and disease based on this one result.

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