Texas A&M University


Corrected sun path diagrams: Discovered that the Olgyay sun path diagrams used by architects throughout the United States in the...

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Emory University


In 1991, Stephen T. Warren, PhD, chair of the Department of Human Genetics at Emory University School of Medicine, led an...

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University of Texas at Austin


In 1941, Esmond Snell, working with colleagues at the University of Texas, independently discovered and named folic acid, a B vitamin...

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Stanford University


Arthur Kornberg was the first to synthesize DNA-like material in a test tube. He won the Nobel Prize in 1959 for his work, which is...

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Duke University


Duke Medical Discoveries Irwin Fridovich (Department of Biochemistry) – His laboratory discovered the way living things protect...

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University of Southern Califor...


Solar astronomer and USC professor Darrell L. Judge heads a team that developed equipment to measure extreme ultraviolet (EUV)...

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Rockefeller University


Rockefeller Discoveries In the 60s developed an automated process for synthesizing peptides, which revolutionized protein chemistry,...

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Cornell University


Discovery of transposable elements (“jumping genes”), based on work begun at Cornell by Barbara McClintock (Nobel Prize...

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University of Pittsburgh


First visual proof that the rings of Saturn were particulate Launching of first heavier-than-air flying craft to achieve free...

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Rice University


Buckminsterfullerene, Rick Smalley, Bob Curl; Won the Nobel Prize for their discovery of fullerenes (along with Sir Harold W. Kroto,...

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Columbia University


fm radio [edwin armstrong, ee]radar development of long distance telephony [michael pupin] rapid x-ray photography [michael pupin,...

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University of Pennsylvania


A history of important accomplishments in neutrino physics, going back to the 1970s and culminating with the award of the Nobel Prize...

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