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Test Tubes and Tantrums

When great science minds collide the insults traded and the bile spilt can be both personal and scandalous. William Hartston examines some of the great arguments of science.

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Arthur Stanley Eddington and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
The row that exploded between Eddington and Chandrasekhar over the death of stars.
15 mins29 Jul 2004
Trofim Denisovitch Lysenko and Nikolai Ivanovitch Vavilov
The dispute between Vavilov and Lysenko in 1920s Russia over food production.
15 mins22 Jul 2004
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.
15 mins15 Jul 2004
Joseph Priestley and Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
Joseph Priestley and Antoine Lavoisier both claimed the discovery of oxygen.
15 mins08 Jul 2004
Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
The great clash that occurred between Newton and Leibniz over the discovery of calculus.
15 mins01 Jul 2004

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