CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

CLASS 10

THE MAKING OF A SCIENTIST

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Ebright graduated from which university, as in the chapter ‘The making of a Scientist’?
A
Harvard
B
London
C
Oxford
D
China
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Together they later wrote the paper that explained the theory. Surprising no one who knew him, Richard Ebright graduated from Harvard with highest honours, second in his class of 1, 510. Ebright went on to become a graduate student researcher at Harvard Medical School.

Detailed explanation-2: -Ebright received an A.B. summa cum laude in biology from Harvard University in 1981 and a PhD in microbiology and molecular genetics from Harvard University in 1987.

Detailed explanation-3: -He received his A.B. (Biology, summa cum laude) and Ph. D. (Microbiology and Molecular Genetics) degrees from Harvard University. He performed graduate research at Harvard and the Institut Pasteur and was a Junior Fellow of the Harvard University Society of Fellows.

Detailed explanation-4: -The summer after his freshman year at Harvard, Richard worked on the hormone secreted from the gold spots, and was able to identify the chemical structure of the hormone. During his junior year, he got the idea for his new theory on the life of cells.

Detailed explanation-5: -Ebright and his roommate constructed the plastic model of a molecule to illustrate the working of DNA. It was a big leap forward and got published in a magazine. He graduated from Harvard with the highest honours.

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