American Chemical Society Launches Spellbound Video Series on How Kids Become Scientists
Thursday, August 25, 2011 - 13:00
in Mathematics & Economics
The road to a Nobel Prize began for one scientist in elementary school when his father placed a sign on his bedroom door proclaiming him to be a "doctor." For another Nobel laureate, it was a childhood breakfast with the famous scientist (and Nobelist) Linus Pauling. Another noted researcher went against all expectations of her day to pursue science in school, even though she was a woman. Yet another took inspiration from a yellow sweater knitted by his mother.