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Famous scientific experiments

Name a famous scientific experiment. Hopdown accepts 283 answers here. Common answers keep your bunny near the surface; rare ones dig deeper. Any well-known historical or landmark experiment in physics, chemistry, biology, psychology or other sciences.

Most common answers

• Double-Slit ExperimentExtremely common
• Michelson-Morley ExperimentExtremely common
• Pavlov's DogsExtremely common
• Miller-Urey ExperimentCommon
• Stanford Prison ExperimentUncommon
• Rosenhan ExperimentUncommon
• Asch Conformity ExperimentUncommon
• Bobo Doll ExperimentUncommon
• Milgram ExperimentUncommon
• Marshmallow ExperimentUncommon
• Little Albert ExperimentUncommon
• Rutherford Gold Foil ExperimentUncommon
• Oil Drop ExperimentUncommon
• Schrodinger's CatUncommon
• Harlow's Monkey ExperimentUncommon

Rare answers

• Koch's PostulatesRare
• Foucault's Speed of Light ExperimentRare
• Single-Photon Double-Slit ExperimentRare
• Muon Decay ExperimentRare
• Herschel's Infrared ExperimentRare
• Lenski's Long-Term Evolution ExperimentRare
• Ainsworth's Strange SituationRare
• Sperry's Split-Brain ExperimentsVery rare
• Tinbergen's Herring Gull ExperimentVery rare
• Cockcroft-Walton ExperimentVery rare
• Super-Kamiokande ExperimentVery rare
• Tyndall's Greenhouse Gas ExperimentVery rare
• Michelson Speed of Light ExperimentVery rare
• Skinner's Operant Conditioning ExperimentVery rare
• Six Degrees ExperimentVery rare

Deep cuts

The answers almost nobody gives.

• Millikan-Fletcher Oil Drop ExperimentDeep cut
• Bloch and Purcell NMRDeep cut
• Penning Trap ExperimentDeep cut
• Magneto-Optical Trap ExperimentDeep cut
• C60 DiffractionDeep cut
• Tonomura Electron InterferenceDeep cut
• Zeno Effect ExperimentDeep cut
• Loophole-Free Bell TestDeep cut
• Rutherford's Gold FoilDeep cut
• Joliot-Curie Artificial RadioactivityDeep cut

Plus 243 more answers you'll have to find yourself.