This series revisits discoveries that changed our understanding of the world. It highlights the experiments, observations and scientists behind each breakthrough.
The Great Scientific Discoveries
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- Which researcher led the team that developed the inactivated polio vaccine declared effective in 1955?
- Which astronomer published a 1929 relation between galaxy distances and their recession velocities?
- Who formulated the law of universal gravitation?
- Who observed in 1928 the antibacterial effect of a mold causing penicillin?
- Who is credited with the invention of the compound microscope?
- Which naturalist published On the Origin of Species in 1859?
- Which scientist is known for formulating the laws of genetic heredity?
- Which physicist formulated matrix mechanics in 1925, one of the first complete formulations of quantum mechanics?
- Which particle did James Chadwick discover in 1932?
- Which inventor helped make an electric incandescent lighting system commercially practical in the late 19th century?
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