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Achievements of a scholar or scientist, under 50, in exact sciences, social sciences or humanities, or biological or medical sciences. Europe: European Inventor Award: European Patent Office: Inventors who have made a significant contribution to innovation, economy and society in Europe Finland: Millennium Technology Prize: Technology Academy ...
Discoveries and innovation by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Discoveries and innovation by the Stanford University; Discoveries and innovation by the University of California, Berkeley; Discoveries and innovation by the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign; Discoveries and innovation of the Carnegie Mellon University
Innovation 360 – From the World Bank. Aggregates innovation indicators (and more) from a number of different public sources; Innovation Capacity Index (ICI) published by a large number of international professors working in a collaborative fashion. The top scorers of ICI 2009–2010 were: 1. Sweden 82.2; 2. Finland 77.8; and 3. United States ...
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 ...
18 awards and medals to recognise achievement in the humanities and social sciences United Kingdom: British Academy Medal: British Academy: Outstanding achievement that has transformed understanding of a particular subject or field of study in ... any branch of the humanities and social sciences United Kingdom: Burkitt Medal: British Academy
Engineers during World War Two test a model of a Halifax bomber in a wind tunnel, an invention that dates back to 1871.. The following is a list and timeline of innovations as well as inventions and discoveries that involved British people or the United Kingdom including the predecessor states before the Treaty of Union in 1707, the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland.
1971: the world's first Bus Rapid Transit system, the Runcorn Busway, first conceived by Arthur Ling. [226] [227] [228] 1985: The Sinclair C5, a one-person battery electric vehicle, invented by Sir Clive Sinclair (1940–2021). 1997: World Land Speed Record, 1,228 km/h (763 mph), achieved by ThrustSSC, a jet-propelled car designed and built in ...
The word Algebra comes from the Arabic الجبر (al-jabr) in the title of his book Ilm al-jabr wa'l-muḳābala. He was the first to treat algebra as an independent discipline in its own right. [22] Algebraic reduction and balancing, cancellation, and like terms: Al-Khwarizmi introduced reduction and balancing in algebra.