Physical Sciences & Engineering | University Discoveries

In 1997, Professor of neurology at UCSF, Stanley Prusiner, won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the prion, a novel infectious...

In 1989, Boston University Professor Michael Mendillo and his collaborators discovered the largest permanently visible...

Berkeley astronomers Alex Filippenko and Adam Reiss were part of a larger international group that in 1998 discovered that the...

Selman Waksman was born in 1888 into a Jewish family in Czarist Russia when there were few opportunities for Jewish children...

Gerty Cori’s father, suffering from diabetes near the end of his life, said to his daughter, “Find me a cure.” ...

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...

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

Top University of Michigan Discoveries: Francis S. Collins, his UM colleagues, and researchers at 8 other collaborating...