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Contents P. 3 Introduction: Off to Serendip P. 5 I: Isaac Newton: The Fall of an Apple P. 16 II: Mary Anning: ?The Princess of Paleontology? P. 26 III: Charles Goodyear: The Rubber Man P. 41 IV: ?The Greatest Discovery Ever Made?: Anesthesia P. 59 V: Ignaz Semmelweis: Doctors, Wash Your Hands! P. 75 VI: Maria Sanz de Sautuola: The Bulls on the Ceiling P. 84 VII: Alexander Fleming: Discoverer of Penicillin P. 98 VIII: Clyde Tombaugh: The Search for Planet X P. 110 IX: Lise Meitner: The Discovery of Nuclear Fission P. 126 X: Muhammad Ahmed el-Hamed: The Dead Sea Scrolls P. 135 XI: Jocelyn Bell: The Discovery of Pulsars P. 149 Afterword: A Note to Future Discoverers P. 152 Bibliographical Sources P. 156 Picture Captions P. 161 Picture Credits *
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Discoveries in science -- Juvenile literature.