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Science

36 items  ·  2,600 BC to 1,993  ·  7 of 32 shown, by interest

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Oswald Avery, Discovery DNA - 1944
Oswald Theodore Avery was a Canadian-born American physician and medical researcher. The major…
Europe + Africa + Middle East 4
Pharaoh Khufu, Pyramid of Cheops, Giza
Khufu (in Greek known as Cheops) was a Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt's Old Kingdom. He reigned from…
Democritus, 1st Atomic Theory
Democritus ("chosen of the people") was an Ancient Greek philosopher born in Abdera, Thrace,…
Fibonacci, Hindu-Arabic Numeral System
Leonardo Pisano Bigollo or simply Fibonacci, was an Italian mathematician, considered by some…
J. J. Thomson, Discovers the Electron, 1897
Sir Joseph John Thomson was a British physicist and Nobel Laureate in Physics, credited with…
Asia + Oceania 2
Aryabhata, Inventor of the Digit Zero
Aryabhata is the first of the great astronomers of the classical age of India. He was born in…
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, WW2
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and…
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