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The Making of a Scientist

Richard Ebright
The Making of a Scientist
This is the story of a young and bright

scientist named Richard H. Ebright.
He grew up north of Reading, Pennsylvania.
At the age of 24 he excited the scientific
world with his theory of cells.
As a child he collected rocks fossils and
coins.
 A great driving force in making of him as a

scientist
 Always encouraged him & developed his
interest in learning
 Took him on trips
 Bought him telescope, microscopes, cameras,
mounting materials etc.
 Got him the book ‘The Travels of Monarch X’
which opened a new world for him
He was her –

(i) whole life after his father’s death,
(ii) only companion
She would find work for him that will
make him learn new things, if does not
have any some day.
He liked it and wanted to learn too.
By the time he was in second

grade , he had collected all the
twenty five species of the
butterflies found around his
home town in six weeks.
 The book is about how butterflies migrate to

Central America.
 It was written by Dr. Frederick Urquhart of
the University of Toronto, Canada.
 Readers were invited to help study butterfly
migration.
 He also asked readers to tag them for research.
 This book opened a world of science to this
young collector.
 But it was impossible to catch so many of

them in six weeks.
 So he started raising a flock of butterflies
in the basement of his house.
 He would catch a female monarch, take her
eggs and raise them. (Life Cycle)
 But as he didn’t get much feedback he
started losing interest in it.
When he was in the seventh grade, he

participated in a science fair and lost.
Here he gets a hint of what real science
is. He learns that science is not a neat
display of something but doing real
experiments.
He had just shown slides of frog tissues.
 He wrote to Dr. Urquhart for ideas and got

many suggestions for experiments.
 He kept on working on them throughout his
high school which led him to many prize projects
on national & international levels.
 In eighth class he found out the cause of a viral
disease that killed all monarch caterpillars. He
raised them in presence of beetles.
 They are the food of birds.

 Viceroys taste good whereas monarchs do not

taste good for birds.
 The viceroys look like monarchs because they
want to trick the birds and save themselves.
 This project was placed first in the zoology
division.
 He tried to find out the purpose of the twelve

tiny gold spots on a monarch pupa.
 Earlier it was assumed that they were just
ornamental.
 But later Ebright , along with his fellow
students, showed that the spots were producing
a hormone necessary for their full development.
 It gave him entry in the International Science &
Engineering Fair
 In his senior year, he grew cells from a

monarch’s wings in a culture and showed
that the cells would divide and develop
into normal butterfly wing scales only if
they were fed the hormones from the gold
spots.
 This project won him the first place for
zoology at the international fair.
 He studied the photos of the chemical structure

of a hormone in the X-ray.
 This photo solved his doubt on DNA.
 He determined that the DNA is the substance
in the nucleus that controls heredity.
 So DNA was established to be the blueprint
for life.
 Richard Ebright became a scientist because he

had a driving curiosity along with a bright
mind.
 He started his journey from collecting the
butterflies.
 This led him to discover the theory of life cells.
 He was not just interested in science.
 He took interest in other activities too.
 There art many qualities that go into making of

a scientist.
 He was curious, dedicative and hardworking.
 He was competitive but not in a bad sense.
 He had a will to win.
 He was intelligent and worked for the right
reasons.
 He didn’t run after prizes.
Making of a scientist
Making of a scientist
Making of a scientist
Making of a scientist
Making of a scientist
Making of a scientist
PRESENTED BY
N K F THAKUR
TGT ENGLISH
JNV HOSHANGABAD (MP)

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Making of a scientist

  • 1. The Making of a Scientist Richard Ebright
  • 2. The Making of a Scientist This is the story of a young and bright scientist named Richard H. Ebright. He grew up north of Reading, Pennsylvania. At the age of 24 he excited the scientific world with his theory of cells. As a child he collected rocks fossils and coins.
  • 3.  A great driving force in making of him as a scientist  Always encouraged him & developed his interest in learning  Took him on trips  Bought him telescope, microscopes, cameras, mounting materials etc.  Got him the book ‘The Travels of Monarch X’ which opened a new world for him
  • 4. He was her – (i) whole life after his father’s death, (ii) only companion She would find work for him that will make him learn new things, if does not have any some day. He liked it and wanted to learn too.
  • 5. By the time he was in second grade , he had collected all the twenty five species of the butterflies found around his home town in six weeks.
  • 6.  The book is about how butterflies migrate to Central America.  It was written by Dr. Frederick Urquhart of the University of Toronto, Canada.  Readers were invited to help study butterfly migration.  He also asked readers to tag them for research.  This book opened a world of science to this young collector.
  • 7.  But it was impossible to catch so many of them in six weeks.  So he started raising a flock of butterflies in the basement of his house.  He would catch a female monarch, take her eggs and raise them. (Life Cycle)  But as he didn’t get much feedback he started losing interest in it.
  • 8. When he was in the seventh grade, he participated in a science fair and lost. Here he gets a hint of what real science is. He learns that science is not a neat display of something but doing real experiments. He had just shown slides of frog tissues.
  • 9.  He wrote to Dr. Urquhart for ideas and got many suggestions for experiments.  He kept on working on them throughout his high school which led him to many prize projects on national & international levels.  In eighth class he found out the cause of a viral disease that killed all monarch caterpillars. He raised them in presence of beetles.
  • 10.  They are the food of birds.  Viceroys taste good whereas monarchs do not taste good for birds.  The viceroys look like monarchs because they want to trick the birds and save themselves.  This project was placed first in the zoology division.
  • 11.  He tried to find out the purpose of the twelve tiny gold spots on a monarch pupa.  Earlier it was assumed that they were just ornamental.  But later Ebright , along with his fellow students, showed that the spots were producing a hormone necessary for their full development.  It gave him entry in the International Science & Engineering Fair
  • 12.  In his senior year, he grew cells from a monarch’s wings in a culture and showed that the cells would divide and develop into normal butterfly wing scales only if they were fed the hormones from the gold spots.  This project won him the first place for zoology at the international fair.
  • 13.  He studied the photos of the chemical structure of a hormone in the X-ray.  This photo solved his doubt on DNA.  He determined that the DNA is the substance in the nucleus that controls heredity.  So DNA was established to be the blueprint for life.
  • 14.  Richard Ebright became a scientist because he had a driving curiosity along with a bright mind.  He started his journey from collecting the butterflies.  This led him to discover the theory of life cells.  He was not just interested in science.  He took interest in other activities too.
  • 15.  There art many qualities that go into making of a scientist.  He was curious, dedicative and hardworking.  He was competitive but not in a bad sense.  He had a will to win.  He was intelligent and worked for the right reasons.  He didn’t run after prizes.
  • 22. PRESENTED BY N K F THAKUR TGT ENGLISH JNV HOSHANGABAD (MP)