100 Greatest Science Discoveries of All Time

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Appendix 3: The Next 40 This table is a list of 40 important discoveries that almost made the final list of the greatest 100. Each is worthy of consideration, honor, and study. Pick one or more of these to research and describe. Earth is a sphere The heavens are not fixed and unchanging The nature of light Compressibility of gasses Lift/fluid pressure Comets have predictable orbits Hydrogen Origin of the solar system Mass of the earth Liquification of gasses Fingerprints, uniqueness of Magnetic induction Age of the sun Sun is a gas Age of the earth Antiseptics Plastics Alternating current Bacteriology Earth’s magnetic field reversals Chemotherapy Cosmic radiation Electroencephalogram adjustrightBrucellosis bacterium Exclusion principle Neutrino Galaxies emit radio waves Artificial radioactivity Cortisone Sulfa drugs Radiation therapy Laser

Aristotle Brahe

387 B.C. 1574

Galileo, Newton, Young, Einstein Boyle Bernoulli Halley Cavendish Laplace Cavendish Faraday Purkinje Faraday Helmholtz Carrington Lyell (first), Holmes (accurate) Lister Hyatt Tesla Koch Brunhes Ehrlich Hess Berger Evans Pauli Pauli Jansky Curie and Joliot Kendall Domagk Priore Townes and Gould

various years 1688 1738 1758 1776 1796 1798 1818 1823 1831 1853 1859 1860, 1940 1863 1869 1883 1890 1906 1906 1911 1924 1925 1926 1926 1932 1934 1935 1936 1950 1954/1957

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