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Posted by admin on Oct 10, 2010

Posted by admin on Oct 10, 2010

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

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

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

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

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

Folic Acid: a B vitamin that today is recommended as a supplement for pregnant women to prevent neural tube defects such as spina...