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Top 10 Eureka Moments

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Most inventions and scientific advances really come after hours and hours of hard work in the lab and years of trying to wring funding from a stone.

But these stories represent times when inspiration struck like a bolt out of the blue and the world was changed by that eureka... that, or these scientists are just the ones with the best P.R.


Archimedes is the man who made eureka famous; of course he's on the list.


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