Social & Behavioral Sciences and Humanities

In the 1950s you did not have to be living in Levittown or in other New York suburbs to hear cocktail party conversation about...

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...

Merton is also responsible for the modern usage of the term “anomie.” Drawing upon the 19th century work of the great...

Robert K. Merton (1936) was responsible for many other sociological ideas captured in phrases that became widely used in...

One of the leading American sociologists of the 20th century, Robert K. Merton was a theorist who believed deeply in...

The field of bioengineering was pioneered at UCSD. Y.C. Fung, is the father of biomechanics, and was awarded the President’s...

Dan Nathans invents gene splicing using restriction enzymes Hamilton Smith invents gene splicing using restriction enzymes John...

In late 1998, a UW-Madison group led by James Thomson was the first to isolate and culture human embryonic stem cells, master...

In 1949 Dr. Benedict Cassen of the UCLA Department of Radiology developed the rectilinear scintillation scanner, an instrument that...

1988 Developed the first transgenic mouse, now in use worldwide for cancer research. Experiments with the mouse at Harvard led to a...

Recombinant DNA – Herbert Boyer (UC San Francisco) with Stanley Cohen (Stanford) Positron Emission Tomography (PET Scanning)...