SAT写作素材分享：成功人士

　　众所周知，SAT作文喜欢偏向高大上的普世价值观，对成功也是一再强调主观能动性的作用，但客观来看，确实有一些人凭借pure luck而盆满钵满成名立万，大家往往只能想到盘尼西林的发现是个意外，其实这方面素材还有很多，下面就介绍一下：

　　1.糖精发明者：康斯坦丁法堡和伊拉雷森

　　时间：1879年

　　事情发生的经过：在研究了一整天的煤矿衍生物之后，法堡离开他约翰霍金大学的实验室回家吃晚饭。

　　大发现：他吃到了某种特别甜的东西，于是他追溯到了自己手上沾到的某种化学成分而且最棒的是，这种糖精完全没有热量。

　　结果：法堡摒弃了伊拉和所在大学，偷偷申请了糖精的专利

　　Inventors: Constantin Fahlberg and Ira Remsen

　　Year: 1879

　　WhatHappened: After spending the day studying coal tar derivatives, Fahlberg lefthis Johns Hopkins laboratory and went to dinner。

　　BigDiscovery: Something he ate tasted particularly sweet, which he traced to achemical compound hed spilled on his hand. Best of all, it turned out to becalorie-free。

　　As a result: He cut Remsen andthe university out of millions of dollars when he secretly patented thebreakthrough discovery, saccharin.

　　2.橡皮泥发明者：詹姆斯怀特

　　时间：1943年

　　事情发生的经过：在战时，通用的工程师将硅油和硼酸混合、试图制造出能用于坦克、靴子的橡胶。

　　大发现：他的尝试没有成功，但科学家们重新设计和延伸了这项发明。

　　结果：孩子们开始普遍地玩橡皮泥。

　　Inventor: James Wright

　　Year: 1943

　　WhatHappened: During the war years, the General Electric engineer combined siliconeoil and boric acid in an attempt to find a cheap alternative to rubber for tanktreads, boots, etc。

　　BigDiscovery: It didnt work. But the scientists had a blast bouncing andstretching his mistake, when they werent using it to transfer comics ontopaper。

　　As a result: Kids had a blast playing with the SillyPutty too.

　　3. 口香糖发明者：汤马斯亚当

　　时间：1870年

　　事情发生的经过：他在用chicle，一种南美洲的树液做实验，以寻找橡胶的替代物。在无数次失败后，这个郁闷的发明家干脆丢了一块到嘴里!

　　大发现：他居然喜欢!

　　结果：亚当纽约一号成为了世界上第一个大批量生产的口香糖!

　　Inventor: Thomas Adams

　　Year: 1870

　　WhatHappened: He was experimenting with chicle, the sap from a South American tree,as a substitute for rubber. After mounting failures, the dejected inventorpopped a piece into his mouth。

　　BigDiscovery: He liked it!

　　As a result: Adams New York No. 1 became the first mass-producedchewing gum in the world.

　　4.肉毒素发明者：卡卢瑟夫妇

　　时间：1987年

　　事情发生的经过：这对夫妻本来是小剂量地使用这种致命毒素来治疗斗鸡眼和其他眼部肌肉疾病的，而他们却发现了药物的一些副作用。

　　大发现：副作用就是，眼部周围的皱纹都奇迹般的消失了!

　　结果：肉毒杆菌被大量运用于美容界，虽然注射之后会导致整张脸僵硬!

　　Inventors: Alastair and Jean Carruthers

　　Year: 1987

　　WhatHappened: The couple were using small doses of a deadly toxin to treatcrossed eyes eyelid spasms and other eye-muscle disorders when theynoticed an interesting side effect。

　　BigDiscovery: Wrinkles magically disappeared。

　　As a result: The expressionless face became theit look, thanks to Botox.

　　5.艾万可发明者：Pfizer公司的科学家们

　　时间：1992年

　　事情发生的经过：为寻找治疗心绞痛的解药，一个威尔士小村庄被夷为平地。尽管损失巨大，科学研究却没有取得任何进展。

　　大发现：尽管没有成功，参与研究的人员却拒绝放弃他们的药。

　　结果：科学家们把研究转向，终于把名为Viagra投入市场，而目的却与刚开始大相径庭。

　　Inventors: Scientists at Pfizer

　　Year: 1992

　　WhatHappened: A Welsh hamlet was ground zero for a test on a pill to fight angina.Unfortunately for the afflicted, it had little success against the disease。

　　BigDiscovery: Though it didnt work, the men taking part in the study refused togive up their medicine。

　　As a result: The scientists switched gears and marketedthe drug, Viagra, for a very different purpose.

　　Make good use of them.