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Buckminsterfullerene, Rick Smalley, Bob Curl; Won the Nobel Prize for their discovery of fullerenes (along with Sir Harold W. Kroto,...

fm radio [edwin armstrong, ee]radar development of long distance telephony [michael pupin] rapid x-ray photography [michael pupin,...

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

Professor Philip Lowe is pioneering an initiative to use folates to help diagnose and deliver therapeutic drugs to cancerous tumors....

first distributed computing environment with what we now call email (our Andrew system) the concept of “attachments” to...

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

The Hubble Space Telescope, which has been traced back directly to an article written by Lyman Spitzer in 1946. Spitzer advocated and...

Theodore Von Karmen established the principles of flight and helped the aerospace industry develop in Southern California Linus...

Leadership in the development of the ideas of chaos theory and the use of the properties of chaos to predict and control the behavior...

Penn State Discoveries: Designed and first operated in 1902 by pioneer animal nutritionist Henry Armsby, the calorimeter monitored...

In 1989, Professor Michael Mendillo and associates discovered the largest permanently visible object in the Solar System – the...

Top University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Discoveries: John Bardeen et al. formulated a theoretical explanation of...