Brilliant Blunders: the mistakes made by some of history’s greatest scientists
by Jon Butterworth from on (#1FQ75)
Renowned astrophysicist Mario Livio explores and analyzes major errors committed by such luminaries as Charles Darwin, Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle and Albert Einstein
No one should be in any doubt that scientists can blunder, just like anyone else.
Many doctoral theses have lost a crucial, un-backed-up section due to late-night fat fingers. In Smashing Physics I wrote about the first, abortive attempt to start up the Large Hadron Collider in 2008 - not to mention a proton decay experiment that accidentally siphoned a cesspit into its (previously) clean detector volume.