-
insights or inventions. Many
significant discoveries in
history were
serendipitous,
including penicillin, Post-it notes, Viagra, and the
microwave oven...
- the
researcher to
properly appreciate when a
finding is "unexpected".
Serendipitous discoveries often requires certain mental conditions in the investigator...
- Perkin's mauve, was one of the
first synthetic dyes. It was
discovered serendipitously by
William Henry Perkin in 1856
while he was
attempting to synthesise...
- 1778,
British Captain James Cook
encountered the
Hawaiian Islands serendipitously while crossing the
Pacific during his
third voyage of exploration....
- Medicines: The
Madagascar Periwinkle's
Impact on
Childhood Leukemia: A
Serendipitous Discovery for Treatment".
Alternative and
Complementary Therapies. 16...
- there, due to a
giant talent pool,
proximity to
venture capital, and
serendipitous connections.
Tourism is one of San Francisco's most
important private-sector...
- the
cosmic distance ladder. In 1964, Arno
Penzias and
Robert Wilson serendipitously discovered the
cosmic background radiation, an
omnidirectional signal...
- by
identifying the
active ingredient from
traditional remedies or by
serendipitous discovery.
Later chemical libraries of
synthetic small molecules, natural...
-
molecules of life. In 1828,
Friedrich Wöhler
published a
paper on his
serendipitous urea
synthesis from pot****ium
cyanate and
ammonium sulfate; some regarded...
-
although overlapping,
categories of fool:
simpleton fool, wise fool, and
serendipitous fool. The six
volume Motif-Index of Folk-Literature
contains (in volume...
