![]() ![]() One hundred years later, scientists searching for new particles like the Higgs boson use a supercollider - a 17-mile-long machine that costs several billion dollars and will produce data to be analyzed by the most powerful supercomputer in the world. Science has come a long way in the last 150 years! We now have more powerful data analysis techniques, more sophisticated equipment for making observations and running experiments, and a much greater breadth and depth of scientific knowledge. Thomson discovered a new particle of matter - the electron - at the turn of the century, his lab equipment mainly consisted of vacuum tubes, magnets, and some simple wiring. ![]() One hundred and fifty years later, modern plant genetics laboratories, like Chelsea Specht’s below, look a lot more diverse and employ the latest DNA sequencing techniques. When Gregor Mendel began his investigations of plant genetics in the 1800s, he worked alone - a middle-aged European monk counting peas in the abbey garden. Thomson photo © the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University Large Hadron Collider photo © CERN. Photo credit: Mendel image courtesy of the American Philosophical Society/permission to publish required Specht lab photo courtesy of Chelsea Specht J.J. Thomson’s primitive equipment to today’s Large Hadron Collider - science has indeed come a long way. From Gregor Mendel’s experiments with peas to the work on plant evolution in a modern lab, and from J.J. ![]()
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