We publish our audit record because accuracy claims should be checkable. Every entry on this site runs through an automated fact-audit pipeline (accuracy audit → source-grounded repair → visual QA); this page is generated from that pipeline's own report, not written by hand.
Last full accuracy audit: 2026-08-31 · 5 entries checked · 5 flagged · 7 issues confirmed · 5 corrected · 2 still open
Luis Federico Leloir — Leloir left for the United States in 1944, not 1943, after Houssay was dismissed for signing an anti-Axis declaration.
Luis Federico Leloir — Leloir's ashes are interred at Cementerio de la Recoleta, not Cementerio de la Chacarita.
M. Stanley Whittingham — Whittingham and his boss, Fred Gamble, conceived the intercalation electrode — this is incorrect; Whittingham alone is credited with the discovery of intercalation electrodes for battery use.
Marguerite Perey — Francium is the second rarest element after astatine, with only about 550g existing in Earth's crust at any given time — this is incorrect; francium is typically considered the rarest naturally occurring element, with estimates of about 20-30 grams in the crus
Martin Heinrich Klaproth — The claim that his shop became the second-largest apothecary in Berlin is not a widely established fact in standard biographies and may be invented or unverifiable.
Martin Heinrich Klaproth — The claim that he was an independent inventor of gravimetric analysis is an overstatement not supported by standard historical consensus; the invention is generally attributed to earlier chemists like Joseph Black or Antoine Lavoisier.
Melvin Calvin — The entry states Calvin 'chaired the Committee on Science and Public Policy' without specifying the organization (National Academy of Sciences), which is misleading.
All content is fetchable as JSON at /data/content/ · llms.txt · sitemap
Spotted an error? Suggest an edit — reader reports go straight into the audit queue.