Physical Sciences & Engineering | University Discoveries

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...

Top Ohio State Discoveries: Discovery and Impact of the Release of Genetically Engineered Organisms (GEOs) into the Environment The...

Top Berkeley Discoveries: UC Berkeley physicist Luis W. Alvarez designed and engineered the first liquid hydrogen bubble chamber, a...

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

Top Northwestern Discoveries: (Chemistry) Computation of Molecular Properties, Gaussian program Sir John Pople (Chemistry) ...

Top Baylor Discoveries: Discoveries concerning the peptide hormone production of the brain.Towards the end of the 1950’s,...

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

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