#Johns Hopkins

Stories tagged “Johns Hopkins” in the Weird Science History archive — 2 stories connected by this topic.

• The Physicist Who Cleaned His 40-Foot Spectrograph by Sending the Family Cat Through It
• The Chemist Who Forgot to Wash His Hands and Discovered Saccharin

Related topics: #accidental discovery #artificial sweeteners #cats #coal tar #Constantin Fahlberg #diffraction-gratings #history of chemistry #Ira Remsen