Biological & Biomedical Sciences | University Discoveries

Corrected sun path diagrams: Discovered that the Olgyay sun path diagrams used by architects throughout the United States in the...

In 1991, Stephen T. Warren, PhD, chair of the Department of Human Genetics at Emory University School of Medicine, led an...

In 1941, Esmond Snell, working with colleagues at the University of Texas, independently discovered and named folic acid, a B vitamin...

Arthur Kornberg was the first to synthesize DNA-like material in a test tube. He won the Nobel Prize in 1959 for his work, which is...

Duke Medical Discoveries Irwin Fridovich (Department of Biochemistry) – His laboratory discovered the way living things protect...

Solar astronomer and USC professor Darrell L. Judge heads a team that developed equipment to measure extreme ultraviolet (EUV)...

Rockefeller Discoveries In the 60s developed an automated process for synthesizing peptides, which revolutionized protein chemistry,...

Discovery of transposable elements (“jumping genes”), based on work begun at Cornell by Barbara McClintock (Nobel Prize...

First visual proof that the rings of Saturn were particulate Launching of first heavier-than-air flying craft to achieve free...

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...