Welcome
The Biography of Experiment Series is an ongoing cooperative effort between students and faculty at Haverford College to expose undergraduates to the stories behind influential manuscripts in the Natural Sciences. Posted on this site are PDFs of original manuscripts, each of which has been annotated by a senior undergraduate who has spent a semester critically evaluating the work and assessing the authors’ own perspectives.
By including their interviews with primary investigators, links to background information, and tips for understanding and critically interpreting data, these undergraduates have developed a unique pedagogical tool that should enhance their peers ability to navigate and understand the primary literature. Developing scholars will benefit from their colleagues’ insights as they are invited to explore the living history of a scientific inquiry.
This project has been funded by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, the HHMI, and Haverford College. The website contains PDF files that should be accessed by Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0 (or above). If you do not have the most current version of Acrobat, please click Get Reader to download.
If you are interested in contributing to this project, please fill out the application.
This web site contains PDF files that should be accessed by Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0. If you do not have the most current edition of Acrobat please click "Get Reader" to Download.