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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 ...
Charles Pickering (1805–1878), American naturalist, author of Races of Man and Their Geographical Distribution; Henry Augustus Pilsbry (1862–1957), American zoologist, [289] malacologist, leader in invertebrate taxonomy; Gregory Goodwin Pincus (1903–1967), American biologist and co-inventor of the combined oral contraceptive pill
Heron (c. 10–70), Roman Egypt – usually credited with invention of the aeolipile, although it may have been described a century earlier; John Herschel (1792–1871), UK – photographic fixer (hypo), actinometer; Harry Houdini (1874–1926) U.S. – flight time illusion; Heinrich Hertz (1857–1894), Germany – radio telegraphy ...
The history of biology traces the study of the living world from ancient to modern times. Although the concept of biology as a single coherent field arose in the 19th century, the biological sciences emerged from traditions of medicine and natural history reaching back to Ayurveda, ancient Egyptian medicine and the works of Aristotle, Theophrastus and Galen in the ancient Greco-Roman world.
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. [89]
1974 – Scientists invent the first biocement for industrial applications. 1975 – Method for producing monoclonal antibodies developed by Köhler and César Milstein . 1978 – North Carolina scientists Clyde Hutchison and Marshall Edgell show it is possible to introduce specific mutations at specific sites in a DNA molecule.
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 ...
List of lay Catholic scientists; List of chemists; List of Christians in science and technology; List of Christian Nobel laureates; List of Christian scientists and scholars of medieval Islam; List of climate scientists; List of women climate scientists and activists; List of cognitive scientists; List of computer scientists; List of cosmologists