The classroom's Living Legends.
Two historical scientists, built as real agents with a real backpack of live, checkable sources, not invented facts. Ask them about their work. Watch how they cite a real source, and how they handle it honestly when a lookup fails. That gap, between a real citation and a fabricated one, is the whole point of this exercise.
Talk to a scientist one-on-one
Each carries their own backpack: Wikipedia for biography and history, arXiv for real, current papers in their field.
Albert Einstein
Theoretical Physicist, 1879–1955
Special and general relativity. The 1905 miracle year. A Nobel Prize for the photoelectric effect, not the theory everyone assumes.
Marie Curie
Physicist and Chemist, 1867–1934
Discovered polonium and radium. The only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences.
Or step into the library.
Both scientists in one room, answering you and answering each other. A director model decides who speaks next, so it plays out like a real seminar, not a scripted rotation.
About this classroom. Built for Biology: Albert Einstein and Marie Curie Come Alive, PTX 4990, Independent Study: AI Agents and Critical Thinking. This is the first assignment: create scientist agents with real MCP-style backpacks, expert in a particular science area, housed in a classroom so students can talk to them and watch them talk to each other.
Every agent here uses real tool calls against real, free, public APIs (Wikipedia, arXiv), the same pattern already proven on Clara Sediqa at the Gandhi-King Center. When a live lookup fails, the agent says so plainly rather than inventing a citation, which is the actual lesson: knowing the difference between a real source and a fabricated one.