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Below are discoveries in science that involve chance circumstances in a particularly salient way. This page should not list all chance involved in all discoveries (i.e. it should focus on discoveries reported for their notable circumstances, because luck in science indicates that this would mean listing too many discoveries). ==Overview== Royston Roberts says that various discoveries required a degree of genius, but also some lucky element for that genius to act on.〔Roberts, Royston M. (1989). Serendipity: Accidental Discoveries in Science. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New York.〕 Richard Gaughan writes that accidental discoveries result from the convergence of preparation, opportunity, and desire. Major everyday discoveries that were helped by luck in some way include products like vulcanized rubber, teflon, nylon, penicillin, cyanoacrylate (Super Glue), the implantable pacemaker, the microwave oven, Scotchgard, Saran wrap, Silly Putty, Slinky, safety glass,〔, (【引用サイトリンク】author=Andrew Boyd )〕 propeller, snowmaking, stainless steel, Perkin's mauve, and popsicles. Most artificial sweeteners have been discovered when accidentally tasted, including aspartame and saccharin.〔 Ideas include the theory of the big bang, tissue culture, radio astronomy, and the discovery of DNA.〔 Such archeological discoveries as the Rosetta stone, the Dead Sea Scrolls and the ruins of Pompeii also emerged partly out of serendipity.〔 Many relevant and well known scientific theories were developed by chance at some degree along history. According to a legend, Archimedes realized his principle on hydrostatics when he entered in a bath full of water, which overflows (he then shouted out his famous "Eureka!"). And the unexpected, negative results of the Michelson-Morley experiment in their search of the luminiferous aether ultimately led to the Theory of Special Relativity by Albert Einstein. The novel optical illusion the flashed face distortion effect suggests a new area of research in the neurology of face perception. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of discoveries influenced by chance circumstances」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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