Physical Sciences & Engineering | University Discoveries

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...

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...