Stanford University


Arthur Kornberg was the first to synthesize DNA-like material in a test tube. He won the Nobel Prize in 1959 for his work, which is...

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University of Southern Califor...


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

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Carnegie Mellon University


first distributed computing environment with what we now call email (our Andrew system) the concept of “attachments” to...

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The University of North Caroli...


Oliver Smithies’ gene-targeting technique, first tried in 1985 at Wisconsin-Madison but developed to its potential here at...

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Princeton University


The Hubble Space Telescope, which has been traced back directly to an article written by Lyman Spitzer in 1946. Spitzer advocated and...

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