A 10-Year-Old Accidentally Created in 2012 a New Molecule in Science Class: Tetranitratoxycarbon.
In 2012, US Grade 5 student Clara Lazen accidentally discovered the molecule tetranitratoxycarbon. She asked her teacher, Kenneth Boehr, who asked chemist, Robert Zoellner, if it existed. It didn’t.
Then Professor Robert Zoellner has a co-authorship on a paper about the new molecule–along with ten-year-old Clara Lazen.