“The Lonely Crowd”


In the 1950s you did not have to be living in Levittown or in other New York suburbs to hear cocktail party conversation about...

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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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Anomie


  Merton is also responsible for the modern usage of the term “anomie.” Drawing upon the 19th century work of the great...

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The Law of Unintended Conseque...


  Robert K. Merton (1936) was responsible for many other sociological ideas captured in phrases that became widely used in...

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The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy


  One of the leading American sociologists of the 20th century, Robert K. Merton was a theorist who believed deeply in...

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University of California ̵...


The field of bioengineering was pioneered at UCSD. Y.C. Fung, is the father of biomechanics, and was awarded the President’s...

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Johns Hopkins University


Dan Nathans invents gene splicing using restriction enzymes Hamilton Smith invents gene splicing using restriction enzymes John...

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University of Wisconsin –...


In late 1998, a UW-Madison group led by James Thomson was the first to isolate and culture human embryonic stem cells, master...

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UCLA


In 1949 Dr. Benedict Cassen of the UCLA Department of Radiology developed the rectilinear scintillation scanner, an instrument that...

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Harvard University


1988 Developed the first transgenic mouse, now in use worldwide for cancer research. Experiments with the mouse at Harvard led to a...

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University of California ̵...


Recombinant DNA – Herbert Boyer (UC San Francisco) with Stanley Cohen (Stanford) Positron Emission Tomography (PET Scanning)...

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