CBSE Class 10 English Foot Prints Without Feet Chapter 6 The Making Of A Scientist

The Making Of A Scientist Class 10 Notes: In this article, revision notes for CBSE Class 10 English Footprints Without Feet Chapter 6 The Making of a Scientist have been presented. A PDF download link for the same has also been provided in the article for your reference. Here, the synopsis of the story along with the summary of the making of a scientist has been provided to you.

The Making of a Scientist is an autobiographical piece based on the evolutionary scientist in the domain of science, particularly biology, who through his eagerness towards science and interest in butterflies discovered the working mechanism of cells inside a human body.

Revision Notes for Class 10 English Chapter 6 The Making Of A Scientist

 Synopsis of the Story

The story is about Richard E Bright, a well-known scientist who is known for his discovery in determining the role of cells in the human body. It is an excerpt from the life of Richard E Bright that talks about his journey to becoming a great scientist.

 Summary of The Making Of A Scientist

• Richard E Bright is known for his world-famous theory on living cells, and DNA.
• The hypothesis was elucidated in a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science by Richard H. Ebright and his college roommate.
• It was the first time college student work had ever been published in this prestigious scientific magazine.
• With the same unwavering persistence that has characterized all of his endeavors, Bright gathered butterflies. In addition, he gathered coins, minerals, and fossils. As an enthusiastic astronomer, he occasionally spent the entire night stargazing.
• His mother supported his curiosity by taking him on field trips, and purchasing telescopes, microscopes, cameras, mounting supplies, and other tools.
• By the time Ebright reached second grade, he had gathered specimens of all twenty-five species of butterflies that could be found in and near his village.
• Next, his mother gave him a book for young readers named The Travels of Monarch X. The inquisitive young collector was introduced to the world of science by that book, which described the migration of monarch butterflies to Central America.
• The book concluded with an invitation for readers to contribute to the research on butterfly migrations. Frederick A. Urquhart, a researcher at the University of Toronto in Canada, instructed them to tag butterflies. After writing to Dr. Urquhart, Ebright’s mother put light adhesive tags on monarch butterflies’ wings.
• Then, after entering and losing a county science fair in the seventh grade, he began to understand what true science is.
• “I knew that for the next year’s fair, I would have to do a real experiment,” he said.
• He thus wrote to Dr. Urquhart seeking inspiration, and in return, he received a long list of experiment ideas
• This time, Ebright succeeded in his eighth-grade assignment of trying to identify the source of a viral sickness that kills almost all monarch caterpillars every few years.
• His science fair research the next year tested the hypothesis that viceroy butterflies mimic monarchs. The idea was that since monarchs are unappealing to birds, viceroys mimic them in appearance. Conversely, birds do enjoy the taste of viceroys.
• Richard Ebright started the investigation that resulted in his identification of an unidentified insect hormone during his sophomore year of high school. It unintentionally contributed to the development of his novel idea of cell life.
• In order to discover the solution, Ebright and a fellow exceptional science student had to first construct a gadget that demonstrated the spots were generating a hormone required for the butterfly to fully mature. Ebright received first place in the county fair and an invitation to the International Science and Engineering Fair because of this initiative.
• Richard Ebright continued his advanced studies on the monarch pupa while he was a junior in high school. That year, he was granted another opportunity to work in the army laboratory during the summer after his idea earned first place at the International Science Fair.
• He cultured cells from a monarch’s wing and demonstrated that the cells needed the hormone from the gold spots to divide and grow into regular butterfly wing scales. At the International Fair, that project took first prize in the zoology category.
• The idea for Ebright’s novel theory regarding cell life came to him during his junior year, a year and a half later. It happened while he was studying X-ray images of hormone chemistry. The images also provided the solution to a biological conundrum: how a cell can “read” its DNA code. These results on insect hormones were added to the photos. The material in a cell’s nucleus that regulates heredity is called DNA. It establishes the cell’s shape and functionality. DNA is therefore the blueprint for life.
• Richard Ebright was second in his Harvard class of 1,510 graduates, graduating with the highest honors. After thereafter, Ebright enrolled in Harvard Medical School as a graduate student researcher. He started conducting experiments there to verify his theory.

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