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All answers to “Name a famous experiment or thought experiment in science”
The complete list: 88 answers, 88 of them longer than one word, with the alternative spellings that also count. Rarity stays hidden.
A
- Asch conformity experimentsalso Asch experiment
- Aspect experiment
- Avery-MacLeod-McCarty experiment
B
- Banting and Best's insulin experiments
- Becquerel's uranium experiment
- Bell test experimentsalso Bell test
- Bobo doll experiment
C
- Cathode ray experimentalso Thomson's cathode ray experiment
- Cavendish experiment
- Chadwick's neutron experiment
- Cockcroft-Walton experiment
- Cowan-Reines neutrino experiment
D
- Darley-Latane bystander experiments
- Davisson-Germer experiment
- Double-slit experimentalso Double slit, Young's double-slit experiment
E
- Eddington's eclipse experimentalso 1919 solar eclipse expedition
- Eijkman's chicken experiments
- Einstein's elevator
- Elitzur-Vaidman bomb tester
- Eotvos experiment
- Eratosthenes' measurement of the Earth
F
- Festinger-Carlsmith experiment
- Fizeau experiment
- Foucault pendulumalso Foucault's pendulum
- Franck-Hertz experiment
- Franklin's kite experiment
G
- Galvani's frog experiments
- Gold foil experimentalso Rutherford gold foil experiment, Geiger-Marsden experiment
- Gravity Probe B
- Griffith's experiment
H
- Hafele-Keating experiment
- Hammer and feather experimentalso Apollo 15 hammer and feather drop
- Hanbury Brown-Twiss experiment
- Harlow's monkey experiments
- Hawthorne experiments
- Hershey-Chase experiment
- Hertz's radio wave experiments
- Homestake experiment
- Hubel and Wiesel experiments
I
- Invisible gorilla experiment
- Ives-Stilwell experiment
J
- Joule's paddle wheel experimentalso Joule's experiment
K
- Kamerlingh Onnes's superconductivity experiment
- Kennedy-Thorndike experiment
L
- Lamb-Retherford experiment
- Lederman-Schwartz-Steinberger experiment
- Libet experiment
- Lind's scurvy trial
- Little Albert experiment
- Loftus-Palmer experiment
- Lorenz's imprinting experiments
- Luria-Delbruck experimentalso Fluctuation test
M
- Magdeburg hemispheres
- Marshall's H. pylori self-experiment
- Marshmallow testalso Stanford marshmallow experiment
- Maxwell's demon
- Mendel's pea plant experimentsalso Mendel's peas
- Meselson-Stahl experiment
- Michelson-Gale experiment
- Michelson-Morley experiment
- Milgram experimentalso Milgram obedience experiment
- Miller-Urey experiment
- Millikan oil drop experimentalso Oil drop experiment
N
- Newton's bucket
- Newton's prism experiment
O
- Oersted's experiment
P
- Pasteur's swan neck flask experiment
- Pavlov's dogsalso Pavlov's experiment
- Pound-Rebka experiment
- Priestley's mouse and candle experiment
Q
- Quantum eraser experiment
R
- Redi's experiment
- Robbers Cave experiment
- Rosenhan experiment
- Rumford's cannon boring experiments
- Rutherford's nitrogen transmutation experiment
S
- Sagnac experiment
- Schrodinger's cat
- Spallanzani's experiments
- Stanford prison experiment
- Stern-Gerlach experiment
T
- Thorndike's puzzle box experiments
- Tolman's rat experiments
- Torricelli's barometer experiment
- Trouton-Noble experiment
V
- Van Helmont's willow tree experiment
W
- Wheeler's delayed-choice experimentalso Delayed-choice experiment
- Wu experiment
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