Today, VW set about completing their Hitchams’s Hundreds
Challenge of listing 100 influential scientific discoveries, inventions or
theories.
Miss. Whipps is still in the process of collating the information but
thinks the class have achieved at least 100.
There were a huge range of
discoveries, ranging from Alexander Fleming’s discovery of Penicillin, Jan
Ingenhousz’s discovery of photosynthesis (whereby green plants absorb carbon
dioxide and release oxygen), to Black Holes, the science behind rainbows (Isaac
Newton found that
the sun’s light hits a prism in order to separate into
its individual colours) and infra-red.
A really impressive challenge! Well done Class VW
