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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.” ...

In 1900, a University of Michigan chemist, Moses Gomberg achieved what had been believed to be impossible – to isolate an...

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 Arizona Discoveries: Pima S-1Cotton was developed by Walker Bryan and standardized by Robert Peebles and has...

Josh Lederberg, Edward Tatum discovered bacterial recombination, which was then harnessed as a technique to explore biochemical...

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

In the 1960’s when University of Virginia was considered a world hub for cardiovascular physiology, Dr. Robert Berne developed a...

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

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

A history of important accomplishments in neutrino physics, going back to the 1970s and culminating with the award of the Nobel Prize...