Making of a Scientist by Robert. W Peterson
John Ebright easily found out that to avoid being eaten by birds, the viceroys try to look like the monarchs. The project was to check out whether birds would eat monarchs. John Ebright easily found out that a starling would eat all the monarchs that he could get. The project was placed first in the zoological division and overall third in the county Science fair. After that Richard Ebright began research that led him to discover an unknown insect hormone. It was discovered that indirectly it made him propound a new theory on the life of cells. Ebright tried to answer a simple question about why there are tiny gold spots on a monarch pupa. It was commonly believed that twelve spots on a monarch pupa were ornamental. Now, the task in front of Ebright and an excellent science student was to build up a device that would show that the spots were providing a necessary hormone that was helping the butterfly’s full development. This project won Ebright first place in the country fa...
