Biologie

Charles J. Krebs

To learn something about animals by following their tracks.

Biologie

Julia Levy

To understand why Levy and her team use red laser light to activate their photodynamic drugs.

Chimie

Gerhard Herzberg

To demonstrate the conservation of angular momentum, a basic principle of physics. (Angular momentum can be thought of as the energy of turning. When a car is turning, you feel angular momentum as a pulling force to the outside. It’s why you lean into a turn.)

Physique

Werner Israel

To calculate the mass of a typical black hole.

Biologie

Biruté Galdikas

Try being a physical anthropologist and make an activity budget for an animal you can observe. You will call this animal your focal animal.

Biologie

William Ricker

To learn to identify the 5 common species of Pacific salmon.

Mathématiques

Donald (H. S. M.) Coxeter

Make rhombus tiles and use them to make various designs.

Médecine

Doreen Kimura

To study hand movements during conversation in men and women and to explain why they may be different.

La terre

Roger Daley

To simulate how meteorologists track storm clouds.

Biologie

Tak Wah Mak

To calculate the number of possible different T-cell receptors that your body’s immune system can make from just the few hundred protein chains encoded in your immune system DNA.

Biologie

Memory Elvin-Lewis

To be an ethnobotanist by discovering a new kind of food in your own home town.

Biologie

Walter Lewis

To be an ethnobotanist in your own family.

Biologie

William Ricker

To tell the difference between many different varieties of fish.

Biologie

Lap-Chee Tsui

To identify your own blood type based on your parents’ blood types.

Biologie

Irene Ayako Uchida

To sort chromosomes looking for trisomy.

Chimie

Michael Smith

To design your own oligonucleotide and see if it’s part of a real human gene.

Physique

Bertram Neville Brockhouse

To use a laser to count the number of lines on a CD.

Physique

Louis Taillefer

To discover heat conduction in materials

Biologie

Robert L. Carroll

To collect some fossils

Physique

Willard S. Boyle

To measure the presence and properties of invisible infrared radiation.