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As an example of its accuracy, 18th century scientist Guillaume Le Gentil, during a visit to Pondicherry, India, found the Indian computations (based on Aryabhata's computational paradigm) of the duration of the lunar eclipse of 30 August 1765 to be short by 41 seconds, whereas his charts (by Tobias Mayer, 1752) were long by 68 seconds.
For their role in the Manhattan Project: Aerodynamics: Nikolai Zhukovsky George Cayley [133] Zhukovsky was the first to undertake the study of airflow, was the first engineer scientist to explain mathematically the origin of aerodynamic lift. Cayley Investigated theoretical aspects of flight and experimented with flight a century before the ...
Subrata Roy (scientist) – India, United States; Carlo Rubbia – Italy (born 1934) Nobel laureate; Vera Rubin – United States (1928–2016) Serge Rudaz – Canada, United States (born 1954) David Ruelle – Belgium, France (born 1935) Ernst August Friedrich Ruska – Germany (1906–1988) Nobel laureate; Ernest Rutherford – New Zealand, U ...
Such discoveries are often a multi-step, multi-person process. Multiple discovery sometimes occurs when multiple research groups discover the same phenomenon at about the same time, and scientific priority is often disputed. The listings below include some of the most significant people and ideas by date of publication or experiment.
Roger Y. Tsien (1952–2016), together with Osamu Shimomura (1928–2018) and Martin Chalfie (born 1947), U.S. – Discovery and development of Green fluorescent protein Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857–1935), Russia – spaceflight
This discovery was critical to the formulation of the Watson-Crick Model of DNA structure. Neil Bartlett mixes xenon and platinum hexafluoride leading to the first synthesis of a noble gas compound, xenon hexafluoroplatinate (1962). Robert Burns Woodward announces the total synthesis of Vitamin B-12 by a team he led (1973).
List of Arab scientists and scholars; List of Austrian scientists; List of Azerbaijani scientists and philosophers; List of Brazilian scientists; List of Bangladeshi scientists. List of British Jewish scientists; List of Cornish scientists; List of Scottish scientists; List of Welsh scientists; List of Byzantine scholars (including scientists)
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.