The "Little Albert" experiment takes a prominent place in the list, alongside the infamous Milgram experiment and the Monster Experiment. The Little Albert experiment was actually inspired by ...

Most people try to avoid making babies cry. The same could not be said for the scientists in John Watson's infant laboratory. OJO Images / Getty Images ...

His study, now commonly referred to as the Little Albert experiment, became widely influential and has sparked plenty of controversy. Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov discovered that if he rang a bell ...

In his book The Mathematical Universe, mathematician William Dunham wrote of John Venn’s namesake legacy, the Venn diagram, “No one in the long history of mathematics ever became better known ...