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Sandoval, William A.; Redman, Elizabeth H. – Science & Education, 2015
Practicing scientists' views of science recently have become a topic of interest to nature of science researchers. Using an interview protocol developed by Carey and Smith that assumes respondents' views cohere into a single belief system, we asked 15 research chemists to discuss their views of theories and experimentation. Respondents expressed a…
Descriptors: Scientists, Scientific Attitudes, Science Process Skills, Scientific Methodology
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Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg – Science & Education, 2015
Carl Erich Correns (1864-1933) is remembered in the annals of science as one of the three botanists who re-discovered Mendel's laws. He can also, however, be regarded as one of the founding figures of classical genetics in Germany. Between 1894 and 1899 he carried out the crossing experiments with corn and peas that led to the re-statement of…
Descriptors: Genetics, Scientific Principles, Scientific Research, Scientific Concepts
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Allen, Garland E. – Science & Education, 2015
Science textbooks and classes mostly emphasize what are considered by today's standards the "right" or "correct" interpretations of particular phenomena or processes. When "incorrect" ideas of the past are mentioned at all, it is simply to point out their errors, with little attention as to why the ideas were put…
Descriptors: Genetics, Evolution, Scientists, Scientific Methodology
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Leone, Matteo – Science & Education, 2014
The present paper advocates the use of History of Science into the teaching of science in primary education through a case study in the field of electricity. In this study, which provides both historical and experimental evidence, a number of conceptual difficulties faced by early nineteenth century physicists are shown to be a useful tool to…
Descriptors: Science Education, Science History, Elementary School Science, Case Studies
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Klassen, Stephen – Science & Education, 2009
The Millikan oil drop experiment has been characterized as one of the "most beautiful" physics experiments of all time and, certainly, as one of the most frustrating of all the exercises in the undergraduate physics laboratory. A literature review reveals that work done on addressing student difficulties in performing the oil drop experiment has,…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Laboratories, Undergraduate Students, Science History
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Heering, Peter – Science & Education, 2007
One of those who failed to establish himself as a natural philosopher in 18th century Paris was the future revolutionary Jean Paul Marat. He did not only publish several monographs on heat, optics and electricity in which he attempted to characterise his work as being purely empirical but he also tried to establish himself as a public lecturer.…
Descriptors: Science History, Scientific Concepts, Scientists, Science Experiments