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The discoveries of elements radium and polonium were made by Polish chemist Marie Curie through the deep study of their nature and their compounds. Rhenium Rhenium, a d-block transition metal with Atomic number 75, was first isolated by Ida Noddack and her husband. The existence of this element was predicted by Dmitri Mendeleev. Ida Noddack was ...
Emma Parmee, British chemist who was one of the leads in the discovery and development of sitagliptin Sarah Pett , British medical researcher, immunopathologist, and COVID-19 researcher Tracey Reynolds (born 1970s), British sociologist
Rosalind Franklin joined King's College London in January 1951 to work on the crystallography of DNA. By the end of that year, she established two important facts: one is that phosphate groups, which are the molecular backbone for the nucleotide chains, lie on the outside (it was a general consensus at the time that they were at the inside); and the other is that DNA exists in two forms, a ...
1963: Maria Goeppert Mayer became the first American woman to receive a Nobel Prize in Physics; she shared the prize with J. Hans D. Jensen "for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure" and Eugene Paul Wigner "for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery ...
The Lower Paleolithic period lasted over 3 million years, during which there many human-like species evolved including toward the end of this period, Homo sapiens.The original divergence between humans and chimpanzees occurred 13 (), however interbreeding continued until as recently as 4 Ma, with the first species clearly belonging to the human (and not chimpanzee) lineage being ...
Sharing their techniques with the British, they enabled British reading of Enigma messages. Stanisław Ulam originated the Teller–Ulam design of thermonuclear weapons. Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. places itself among the most successful media companies in the world. Aleksander Wolszczan discovered the first extrasolar planet, PSR B1257+12.
Nonetheless, science and technology in England continued to develop rapidly in absolute terms. Furthermore, according to a Japanese research firm, over 40% of the world's inventions and discoveries were made in the UK, followed by France with 24% of the world's inventions and discoveries made in France and followed by the US with 20%. [1]
Ion Cantacuzino: his discoveries were relevant in the treatment of cholera, epidemic typhus, tuberculosis, and scarlet fever. Elie Carafoli: a pioneering contributor to the field of aerodynamics. Alexandru Ciurcu: invented alongside Just Buisson [fr; ro] the reaction engine. Henri Coandă: aircraft designer, discovered the Coandă effect of ...