100 Greatest Discoveries

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Physics
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Thirteen discoveries that help explain why matter and energy behave as they do: -Galileo's law of falling bodies -Isaac Newton's conclusions of universal gravity -Newton's laws of .. show full overview
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Earth Sciences
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Twelve landmark steps to understanding the Earth's structure: -Richard Oldham's theory of a liquid core -Inge Lehmann's conclusion that the core is solid iron -Alfred Wegener's .. show full overview
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Medicine
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Thirteen achievements in medicine: Andreas Vesalius's anatomical charts -William Harvey's breakthrough on blood circulation -Karl Landsteiner's identification of blood groups -The .. show full overview
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Astronomy
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Thirteen crucial benchmarks in the history of what may be the oldest science: -Ancient awareness that the planets move -Copernican cosmology -Johannes Kepler's laws of planetary .. show full overview
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The Origin and Evolution of Life
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Ten milestones that have helped to tell life's story: -Walter Alvarez's asteroid theory of dinosaur extinction -The first identification of dinosaur fossils Stanley Miller's .. show full overview
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Chemistry
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Thirteen building blocks in a science that may be the foundation of the modern world: -Joseph Priestly and Antoine Lavoisier's discovery of oxygen -John Dalton's atomic .. show full overview
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Biology
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Thirteen breakthroughs in the science of living things: -Anton van Leeuwenhoek's discovery of micro-organisms -Robert Brown's identification of cell nuclei -Carl Woese's Archaea .. show full overview
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Genetics
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Thirteen vital contributions to a field tht is now a cornerstone of the life sciences: -Gregor Mendel's rules of heredity -Thomas Hunt Morgan's detection of chromosomal gene .. show full overview
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Top Ten
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Ten revelations widely considered to be the most influential in science: -Isaac Newton's laws of motion -Robert Hooke's discovery of cells, coupled with Anton van Leeuwenhoek's .. show full overview