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The Discoverers is a non-fiction historical work by Daniel Boorstin, published in 1983, and is the first in the Knowledge Trilogy, which also includes The Creators and The Seekers. 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 ...
For their work the three received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004. 1974: The J/ψ meson was independently discovered by a group at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, headed by Burton Richter, and by a group at Brookhaven National Laboratory, headed by Samuel Ting of MIT. Both announced their discoveries on 11 November 1974.
This category contains lists on inventions and discoveries, whether organised by nationality, religion, subject matter, organization or individual. See also: Category:Astronomical discoveries by institution , Category:Discoveries by astronomer , Category:Discoverers , Category:Science and technology by location , Category:Inventions by country ...
The books are printed using A6 format (125 × 178 mm), according to Encyclopædia Universalis, "with breathtaking iconography (illustration)" reproduced on thick and glossy coated paper, [7] from which leap two or three images per page. In this picture-dense format, the authors must squeeze their words in edgewise.
German inventions and discoveries are ideas, objects, processes or techniques invented, innovated or discovered, partially or entirely, by Germans.Often, things discovered for the first time are also called inventions and in many cases, there is no clear line between the two.
1947: Discovery of the pion (pi-meson) by Cecil Frank Powell (1903–1969). 1964: The Higgs boson, an elementary particle implied by the Higgs field, proposed by Peter Higgs (born 1929) and others to explain why fundamental particles (which are theoretically weightless) might have acquired mass after their formation in the Big Bang.
Modern enclosed Theater: Their structure was similar to that of ancient theaters, with a cavea and an architectural scenery, representing a city street. The oldest surviving examples of this style are the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza (1580) and the Teatro all'antica in Sabbioneta (1590). [citation needed]
Their works are now mostly lost, and we know about their achievements due mostly to secondary sources. Some of their discoveries had to be re-discovered a millennium after their death. During the Roman Empire, the Greek physician and philosopher Galen dissected the brains of oxen, Barbary apes, swine, and other non-human mammals.