SOURCES – 14 historical figures mocked in their era who were eventually proven right

The following sources were consulted in the preparation of the article “14 historical figures mocked in their era who were eventually proven right.”

  1. When Continental Drift Was Considered Pseudoscience
  2. The New York Times mocked this scientist in 1920. His discoveries could now take us to Mars
  3. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2005 Press Release
  4. John Snow, cholera and the Broad Street water pump
  5. Alice Evans, A Pioneer for Women in Microbiology
  6. The Woman Who Stood Between America and a Generation of ‘Thalidomide Babies’
  7. Dispelling myths and highlighting history of the heliocentric model
  8. The search for the lost city of Troy
  9. Ignaz Semmelweis
  10. Joseph Lister (1827-1912): A Pioneer of Antiseptic Surgery
  11. The child whose town rejected vaccines
  12. Report of the PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident