sociology | University Discoveries

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

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

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

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

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

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

Oliver Smithies’ gene-targeting technique, first tried in 1985 at Wisconsin-Madison but developed to its potential here at...

Top University of Colorado Discoveries: Discovery that the genetic messenger ribonucleic acid (RNA) can act like an enzyme and...

Top University of Chicago Discoveries: Concept of Human Capital Theodore Schultz and Gary Becker Law and Economics: Formulated...