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Was an only child; grew up North of Redding, Pennsylvania

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Started collecting butterflies, along with rocks, fossils and coins. He used to star-gaze all night too.

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He had collected all 25 species found in his hometown.

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The death of his father.

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AFTER receiving the book "The Travels of Monarch X",

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AFTER receiving the book "The Travels of Monarch X",

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Dr. Urquhart was informed in a letter by Ebright's mother about his interest in butterflies and his research.

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He lost the county science fair, causing the appearance of Richard's competitive spirit.

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Ebright tried to find the cause of a viral disease that- he hypothesized that the carrier of the disease was beetles, however didn't get any actual result but still won.

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his science fair project was to test out the theory that Viceroys look like Monarchs because Monarchs don't taste good to birds- the project placed 1st in zoology division and 3rd overall in the county science fair.

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he and another student worked together to build a device that showed the necessity of the hormone in the 12 gold spots on a monarch pupa- which one him 1st place in the county fair and an entry to the International Science & Engineering Fair, where he won 3rd place for zoology.

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Ebright also got the chance to work during the summer at the entomology lab of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.

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he continued his research experiments on the Monarch pupa- which one him 1st place at International Science Fair and gave him another chance to work in Army lab.

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he grew cells from a monarch's wing and showed that cells would develop into a butterfly because of that hormone- for which he won 1st place for zoology at International Fair.

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he went back to the lab of the Department of Agriculture and was able to identify the hormone's chemical structure.

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Ebright got the idea for his mew theory about cell life- that DNA is the blueprint for life.

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Richard H. Ebright and his college room-mate explained he theory in an article in the 'Proceedings of the National Academy of Science'.

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he graduated from Harvard with highest honors, 2nd in his class of 1510.

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to become a graduate student researcher at Harvard Medical School.