You don’t see a lot of cats headlining science news. Anonymous lab mice, Pavlov’s dogs, even Dolly the Sheep gets more recognition than most of the cats on this list. Yet every one of the pioneer pussycats featured here deserves to bask in their own shaft of sunlight upon the great bed of science. In honor of National Cat Day, we recognize these 5 cats.
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It’s practically a natural law that if you write anything about science and cats, you have to mention Schrödinger’s Cat. Which is not an actual cat — indeed, there’s some doubt as to whether Erwin Schrödinger ever owned a cat. But the physicist and Nobel laureate did devise this thought experiment in 1935, which places a hypothetical cat in a hypothetical box in a hypothetical deathtrap situation where the cat could be said to be both dead and alive until ...
