Prions


In 1997, Professor of neurology at UCSF, Stanley Prusiner, won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the prion, a novel infectious...

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Sodium Nebula


In 1989, Boston University Professor Michael Mendillo and his collaborators discovered the largest permanently visible...

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Dark Energy


Berkeley astronomers Alex Filippenko and Adam Reiss were part of a larger international group that in 1998 discovered that the...

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Antibiotics


Selman Waksman was born in 1888 into a Jewish family in Czarist Russia when there were few opportunities for Jewish children...

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Cori Cycle


Gerty Cori’s father, suffering from diabetes near the end of his life, said to his daughter, “Find me a cure.”  ...

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Physostigmine & Hydrocort...


Percy Julian, an African American chemist who had two fingers severed when he was punished for learning to read, was born in...

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Plastics


In 1900, a University of Michigan chemist, Moses Gomberg achieved what had been believed to be impossible – to isolate an...

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Google


Larry Page and Sergey Brin were graduate students at Stanford University working on their doctoral degrees when they...

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The Motion Picture


In 1922, engineers and scientists at the University of Illinois, Urban- Champaign invented the sound motion picture. ...

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FM Radio


Edwin Howard Armstrong was only 11 years old when Guglielmo Marconi made the first wireless trans-Atlantic radio transmission.  His...

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Vanderbilt University


Some significant discoveries from the list: Fetal Surgery Drs.Joseph Bruner and Noel Tulipan were determined to find a way to do...

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University of Michigan


Top University of Michigan Discoveries: Francis S. Collins, his UM colleagues, and researchers at 8 other collaborating...

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