Science has a subjective aspect to it.

    Science and scientific research are normally considered to be objective, yet, there are also subjective aspects: Scientists decide what they take for being granted, they decide which data are relevant and which are an artefact. Subjective is not to be confused with arbitraryness.

    Stories where this aspect plays an important role are: 

    Eijkman and Beri-Beri
  • Irene Joliot-Curie and her husband Frederic missed at least twice the chance to report a new discovery, which, when reported by their adversaries, won those a Nobel Prize. In 1935, their accurate observation skills finally earned them a Nobel Prize of their own, when they presented how man was able to generate new radioactive elements.
    Joliot-Curie and artificial radioactivity
    Rumford and nutrition
    Dmitris Periodentraum