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Test Tubes and Tantrums Episodes

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    Arthur Stanley Eddington and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

    The row that exploded between Eddington and Chandrasekhar over the death of stars.

  2. Trofim Denisovitch Lysenko and Nikolai Ivanovitch Vavilov

    The dispute between Vavilov and Lysenko in 1920s Russia over food production.

  3. Henry Thomas De La Beche and Roderick Impey Murchison

    Geologists Roderick Murchison and Henry de la Beche clashed over the age of Devon's rocks.

  4. Joseph Priestley and Antoine Laurent Lavoisier

    Joseph Priestley and Antoine Lavoisier both claimed the discovery of oxygen.

  5. Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

    The great clash that occurred between Newton and Leibniz over the discovery of calculus.