Citizen Science Discoveries

Famous -

  • Albert Einstien the founder of modern science worked from home while carrying a menial job at a patent office.
  • Charles Darwin a college drop-out founded the theory of evolution.
  • Henry Cavendish isolated and discovered Hydrogen gas.
  • Charles Goodyear invented rubber.
  • Maurice Ward hair-dresser and inventor of starlite
  • Thomas Wilson discovered calcium carbide and acetylene gas.

    • Recent -

  • A group of videogamers elucidated a valid molecular structure of a protease in the H.I.V. Virus.
    http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-20108763-10391704.html
  • A volunteer web-group discovers two new planets
    http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2393391,00.asp

    • More

    There are plenty more discoveries made by citizen scientists through-out time. If you know of any feel free to leave me a message at the contact page. A link for a reference would be really appreciated so I can validate the claim and read about it. There are many, many more to be made. Thankfully, there are still citizen scientists working out of passion and curiousity!