Gregor Mendel was also a skilled beekeeper and studied the inheritance of traits in honeybees, though this work wasn't as well-known as his pea plant experiments. elaborate
Light curing, used in dentistry and other applications, relies on a process called photopolymerization, where light triggers a chemical reaction that hardens a liquid resin into a solid. elaborate
Neil deGrasse Tyson's asteroid, 13123 Tyson, is named after him. elaborate
Isaac Newton's work on gravity was partly inspired by an apple falling from a tree, but there's no evidence he was bonked on the head by it. elaborate
The "bystander effect" describes the phenomenon where the more people present during an emergency, the less likely any one person is to help. elaborate
