This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original here. Groundbreaking discoveries in science often come with two iconic images, one representing the breakthrough and the other, the discoverer. For example, the page from Darwin’s notebook sketching the branching pattern of evolution often accompanies a portrait of Darwin in his early years, when the notebook was written. Likewise, the drawing of the orbits of the moons of Jupiter often accompanies a portrait of Galileo. Another groundbreaking discovery in science was the discovery of the…
