@not2b @Sheril excellent example. Although if I remember correctly, she was a student researcher?

@JonKramer Probably too much discussion in someone else's thread so I will let it go.

@not2b, no, enough. I learned a misconception I had. And it addressed the OPs' post. The best type of thread right here.

Thanks.

@not2b @Sheril

The other one that popped to mind was relativity and the photoelectric effect. The former made Einstein famous, the latter got him a Nobel. But ya, relativity wasn't solidly confirmed until well after his death, was it?

@JonKramer @Sheril I have read that there was a dispute about Eddington's data confirming general relativity (light bending measurement during a solar eclipse).

@not2b @Sheril when I look at those types of experiments, I am astounded, and have a hard time believing anyone got any credible results. Atmospheric refraction should have introduced so much noise in the data that the results were meaningless. But, they still did it. I would have loved to hear the arguments that went on before anything like that was accepted. But, I'm sitting here with the advantage of having seen confirmed photos of gravitational lensing, and several million transistors in my hand. They had three sticks, and a grandparent that discovered fire. It's astonishing.