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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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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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 Arizona


Top University of Arizona Discoveries: Pima S-1Cotton was developed by Walker Bryan and standardized by Robert Peebles and has...

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Yale University


Josh Lederberg, Edward Tatum discovered bacterial recombination, which was then harnessed as a technique to explore biochemical...

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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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University of Virginia


In the 1960’s when University of Virginia was considered a world hub for cardiovascular physiology, Dr. Robert Berne developed a...

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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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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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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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