Nobel Prize | University Discoveries

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

Discovery of transposable elements (“jumping genes”), based on work begun at Cornell by Barbara McClintock (Nobel Prize...

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...

Leadership in the development of the ideas of chaos theory and the use of the properties of chaos to predict and control the behavior...

Top University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Discoveries: John Bardeen et al. formulated a theoretical explanation of...

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