THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE

THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE

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  570 BCE

  Pythagoras born

• 520 BCE

  Thales explains Natural Phenomena
  

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  469 BCE

  Socrates develops the Socratic Method

• 440 BCE

  Leucippus Helps Develop Atomism
  

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  440 BCE

  Hippocrates Founds Western Medicine

• 420 BCE

  Democritus Expands on Atomic Theory
  

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  387 BCE

  Plato Founded the Academy

• 280 BCE

  Herophilus Studies Comparative Anatomy
  

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  260 BCE

  Archimedes Measures Density of Objects

• 240 BCE

  Eratosthenes Measures the Earth's Circumference
  

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  134 BCE

  Hipparchus Predicts the Length of a Year

• 100 BCE

  Antikythera Mechanism: Astronomical Clock
  

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  144

  Galen - Foundation of Medicine

• 335 BCE

  Aristotle, foundational to Western Civilization
  

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  476

  Aryabhata - The great mathematician and Astronomer

• 1000

  Alhazen Publishes "Book of Optics"
  

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  1027

  Avicenna – Central Asian Polymath

• 1220

  Robert Grossteste – A Founder of Scientific Thought
  

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  1267

  Roger Bacon - A Founder of Modern Science

• 1440

  Gutenberg invents the printing press
  

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  1486

  Dias Sails Around Africa

• 1512

  Copernicus Puts the Sun at the Center of the Universe
  

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  1537

  Vesalius - Founder of Modern Anatomy

• 1545

  Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia – Solving the Cubic Equation
  

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  1562

  Fallopio Studies the Female Reproductive System

• 1583

  Bruno's Infinite Universe
  

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  1590

  Jansen and the 1st Telescope

• 1609

  Kepler's First 2 Laws of Planetary Motion
  

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  1620

  Sir Francis Bacon- a founder of modern Science.

• 1621

  Snell Discovers the Law of Refraction
  

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  1621

  Galileo Describes Acceleration

• 1638

  Descartes invents the Cartesian coordinate system
  

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  1662

  Boyle's Law

• 1665

  Hooke Names and Describes Cells
  

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  1666

  Newton's Law of Gravitation

• 1668

  Redi Disproves Spontaneous Generation
  

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  1683

  Van Leeuwenhoek Discovers Microorganisms

• 1687

  Newton Outlines Laws of Motion
  

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  1690

  Locke's "Tabula Rasa"

• 1738

  Bernoulli Describes Fluid Dynamics
  

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  1742

  Celsius Invents the Temperature Scale

• 1753

  Linnaeus Founds Taxonomy
  

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  1780

  First Thermodynamics Experiments

• 1781

  Frederick William Herschel – Discoverer of Uranus
  

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  1781

  Steam Engine

• 1786

  Coulomb Discovers Electrostatic Forces
  

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  1789

  Lavoisier Produces Controlled Chemical Reactions

• 1794

  E. Darwin and Natural Selection
  

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  1794

  Cotton Gin – A mechanical device for removing seeds from cotton fiber

• 1795

  Hutton Detemines the Earth's Age
  

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  1796

  Jenner Invents Vaccination

• 1796

  Laplace Expands on the Nebular Hypothesis
  

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  1800

  Alessandro Volta invents the battery

• 1801

  Piazzi Discovers an Asteroid
  

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  1801

  Dalton's Law of Partial Pressures

• 1808

  Dalton's Modern Atomic Theory
  

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  1809

  Lamarckian Inheritance

• 1811

  Avogadro Measures the Weight of Gases
  

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  1820

  Ampere Discovers Electromagnetism

• 1822

  Louis Pasteur – Best known for pasteurization
  

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  1831

  Faraday Discovers Electromagnetic Induction

• 1838

  Matthias Schleiden: All plants are made of cells
  

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  1839

  Vulcanization

• 1842

  The Doppler Effect
  

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  1849

  Elizabeth Blackwell is first woman to receive medical degree

• 1851

  Foucault and the Earth's pendulum
  

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  1855

  Bessemer process

• 1856

  Neanderthal Fossils Found
  

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  1859

  Charles Robert Darwin-founder of modern Evolutionary Theory

• 1865

  Deiters Presents an Accurate Image of a Nerve Cell
  

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  1865

  Mendel’s Law of Inheritance, Basis for Genetics

• 1867

  Antiseptic – An Invention of Dr. Joseph Lister
  

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  1876

  Bell Invents the Telephone

• 1878

  Flemming Describes Mitosis
  

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  1878

  Julius Ruchard Petri – Creating pure bacteriological cultiures

• 1879

  Arc Lamp – An invention by Charles F. Brush
  

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  1880

  Coal Extraction

• 1886

  1886 – Benz Patent Motor Car, the first vehicle powered by a gas engine
  

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  1895

  X-Ray: Discovery by Wilhelm Rontgen

• 1897

  Felix Hoffman: Founder of Aspirin
  

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  1900

  Airship – An invention of Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin

• 1903

  Wright Brothers First Flight
  

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  1903

  Marie Curie – Only person to win noble prizes in multiple sciences

• 1905

  Einstein goes under without Ether
  

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  1912

  Henrietta Leavitt discovers period-luminosity relationship in astronomy

• 1912

  Theory of Continental Drift: Alfred Wegener
  

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  1913

  Niels Bohr: Model of the Atom

• 1921

  Loewi and the chemical transmission of nerves
  

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  1925

  Edwin Hubble an ever receding horizon

• 1926

  Baird Invents the Television
  

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  1928 - 1945

  Fleming Discovers Penicillin

• 1929

  Hubble Proves the Universe is Expanding
  

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  1932

  Sir James Chadwick discovers the neutron

• 1941

  Hedy Lamarr Not just another pretty face
  

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  1943

  Avery proves that DNA is the genetic material of the chromosome

• 1947

  Breaking the Sound Barrier
  

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  1947

  Edwin Land Invents the Polaroid Instant Camera

• 1950

  Rocket Engine Development
  

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  1952

  Salk Produces Polio Vaccine

• 1953

  Watson and Crick Describe the Structure of DNA
  

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  1957

  Sputnik 1, 1st Satellite Launched

• 1957

  Cloud Seeding
  

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  1962

  Rachel Carson Publishes "Silent Spring"

• 1969

  Moon Landing
  

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  1971

  NASA Mars Rover

• 1974

  "Lucy" Fossil Found
  

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  1980

  Smallpox Eradicated

• 1980

  Alvarez and the K-T Extinction
  

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  1983

  Kary Mullis invents the polymerase chain reaction

• 1984

  Alec Jeffreys invents DNA fingerprinting and DNA profiling
  

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  1992

  The Internet and the World Wide Web

• 1994

  "Ardi" Fossil Found
  

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  1996

  Water Disinfection System: Ashok Gadgil

• 2003

  "Hobbit" Fossil Found
  

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  2003

  Human Genome Mapped

• 2006

  Shinya Yamanaka develops first induced pluripotent stem cells
  

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  2010

  J. Craig Venter Institute creates first synthetic genome for bacterial cell