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Elegant Science

Besides being a good selection, this list of science's ten most beautiful experiments is also a really good presentation of the methodology and implications of the experiments, in brief form. The presentation as a whole also gives some insight, though not in explicit statements, of what it is that make an experiment "beautiful". I suspect this is as hard a concept to communicate to students as the notion of an elegant proof or algorithm.

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