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[7] Stradivarius stringed instruments, considered some of the finest instruments ever made. Theories explaining their purported quality include denser wood unique to the time period due to solar activity, treatment with other materials like calcium and aluminum which have been found in a 2016 shaving, and technique. [1]
Yellapragada Subbarow [a] (12 January 1895 – 8 August 1948) was an Indian American biochemist who discovered the function of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) as an energy source in the cell, [1] developed methotrexate for the treatment of cancer and led the department at Lederle laboratories in which Benjamin Minge Duggar discovered chlortetracycline in 1945.
Here are nine of some of the most significant archaeological discoveries in history that changed what humans know about our origins and culture through time. Pompeii and Herculaneum gave a glimpse ...
The book, subtitled A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself, is a history of human discovery. Discovery in many forms is described: exploration, science, medicine, mathematics, and more-theoretical ones, such as time, evolution, plate tectonics, and relativity.
First of four successive American Museum of Natural History expeditions to Mongolia under Roy Chapman Andrews which will discover fossils of Indricotherium (a gigantic hornless rhinoceros then named "Baluchitherium"), Protoceratops, a nest of Protoceratops eggs (found in 1995 to be from Oviraptor), Pinacosaurus, Saurornithoides, Oviraptor and Velociraptor, none of which were known before.
April 10 – Halley's Comet becomes visible with the naked eye (perihelion: April 20); [3] Earth passes through its tail about May 19 [4] (its next visit will be in 1986). December 30 – A nova (later referred to as DI Lacertae ), is spotted in the constellation Lacerta , by Anglican minister and astronomer T. H. E. C. Espin , making him the ...
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