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Theory of General Relativity
Albert Einstein - 1915
The concept of Evolution by Natural Selection
Charles Darwin - 1859
Invention of the World Wide Web
Tim Berners-Lee - 1989
Theory of Electromagnetism
James Clerk Maxwell - 1865
Discovery of the Electron
J.J. Thomson - 1897
Discovery of Vaccination
Edward Jenner - 1796
Discovery of X-Rays
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen - 1895
Theory of Special Relativity
Albert Einstein - 1905
Discovery of the Bacterium that causes Tuberculosis
Robert Koch - 1882
Discovery of Electromagnetic Waves
Heinrich Hertz - 1887
Formulation of Thermodynamics Laws
Multiple Scientists (19th Century)
Laws of Motion and Universal Gravitation
Isaac Newton - 1687
Discovery of Quantum Mechanics
Max Planck, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger - Early 20th Century
Discovery of the Neutron
James Chadwick - 1932
Invention of the Microscope
Zacharias Janssen - Late 16th Century
Discovery of the Circulation of Blood
William Harvey - 1628
Discovery of Germ Theory of Disease
Louis Pasteur - 1861
Discovery of Human Blood Groups
Karl Landsteiner - 1901
Discovery of the Atomic Nucleus
Ernest Rutherford - 1911
Discovery of Vitamins
Casimir Funk - 1912
Theory of Color Vision
Thomas Young - Early 19th Century
Discovery of the Process of Photosynthesis
Jan Ingenhousz - 1779
Discovery of Polio Vaccine
Jonas Salk - 1955
Discovery of Radioactivity
Henri Becquerel - 1896
The Copernican Revolution
Nicolaus Copernicus - 1543
Discovery of Penicillin
Alexander Fleming - 1928
Discovery of Antiseptics
Joseph Lister - 1867
Theory of Plate Tectonics
J. Tuzo Wilson - 1960s
Law of Conservation of Energy
Julius Robert von Mayer - 1842
Invention of the Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell - 1876
Discovery of the Photon
Albert Einstein - 1905
Discovery of the Expanding Universe
Edwin Hubble - 1929
Discovery of Nuclear Fission
Lise Meitner, Otto Hahn, Fritz Strassmann - 1938
Discovery of the Periodic Law
Dmitri Mendeleev - 1869
Discovery of Chloroform as an Anesthetic
James Young Simpson - 1847
Discovery of the Speed of Light
Ole Rømer - 1676
Discovery of Plate Tectonics
Alfred Wegener - 1912
Theory of Magnetism
William Gilbert - 1600
Discovery of Catalysis
Elizabeth Fulhame - Late 18th Century
Discovery of the Law of Inheritance
Gregor Mendel - 1865
Discovery of the structure of DNA
James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, and Rosalind Franklin - 1953
Invention of Radio
Guglielmo Marconi - 1895
Discovery of Insulin
Frederick Banting and Charles Best - 1921
Discovery of Specialized Animal Cells
Theodor Schwann - 1839
Discovery of the Big Bang Theory
Georges Lemaître - 1927
Discovery of Dark Matter
Fritz Zwicky - 1933
Discovery of the Gas Laws
Robert Boyle, Jacques Charles, Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac - 17th and 18th Centuries
Discovery of the Hall Effect
Edwin Hall - 1879
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