Chapter 6 - The Making Of A Scientist

This article will help you to learn about the summary, characters and themes in the story “The Making of a Scientist”.

Synopsis 

This article is an account of a curious child channelizing his curiosity to become a scientist. Ebright was a highly curious child since his childhood. His mother; his only companion during childhood; helped in further deepening his curiosity. Ebright began his journey by collecting butterflies. After that, he worked on tagging the monarch butterflies so that the scientists’ community could be benefited. Later on, he did research on the utility of gold spots on pupae of monarch butterflies. He became famous when his paper on working of the cell was published in a scientific journal. Ebright participated in many science exhibitions but winning an award for the sake of wining was never his goal. He participated in those exhibitions because he wanted to do a task as best as that could be done.

Character List 

Richard Ebright- He belonged to Pennsylvania. He was very curious about things from the start of his age. His mother encouraged him more. His curiosity raise about the Monarch butterflies when his mother gifted a book on it. This started a career for him he won different fairs at school and ended up in having very important discoveries.

Ebright’s mother- She was a great force behind the making of Ebright as a scientist. She encouraged his interest in learning by taking him on trips, she bought him telescopes, microscopes, cameras, mounting materials and other types of equipment. She found different ways of learning things for him. She bought for him the book titled “The Travels of Monarch X”, which opened a new world for the eager scientist. Every evening mother and son worked together at the dining table. If Ebright had nothing to do she would find learning work for him.

Themes 

The Making of a Scientist is the story of a scientist named Richard H Ebright. It is an interesting study of how Ebright became a scientist. After the early death of her husband, Ebright was everything for his mother. He used to get top grades in schools. At a very early age, when he was just in the second standard, he had already collected 25 species of butterflies found around his hometown. The book The Travels of Monarch X gave him a thorough knowledge about the monarch butterflies. In the second year of his high school, Ebright began to search an unknown hormone in the gold spots of butterflies. In later years, he discovered how a cell could read the blueprint of its DNA.

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