The eureka! moment : 100 key scientific discoveries of the twentieth century / Rupert Lee
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- Lee, Rupert
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- New York : Routledge, 2002
- xviii, 275 p. ; 22 cm.
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- 0415939410
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- Machine derived contents note: MEDICINE 14
- The Yellow Fever Virus (Reed, 1900) 18
- Blood Groups (Landsteiner, 1901) 20
- Vitamins (Hopkins, 1912) 22
- Insulin (Banting and Best, 1922) 24
- Brain Waves (Berger, 1929) 26
- Penicillin (Fleming, 1929) 28
- Sulphonamides (Domagk, 1935) 30
- Rejection of Transplants
- (Gibson and Medawar, 1943) 32
- Sickle Cell Anaemia (Pauling et al, 1949) 34
- Smoking Causes Lung Cancer (Doll and
- Hill, 1950; Wynder and Graham, 1950) 36
- The Polio Vaccine (Salk, 1953) 38
- Interferons (Isaacs and Lindemann, 1957;
- Isaacs et al, 1957) 40
- Prions (Prusiner et al, 1983) 42
- HIV (Barre-Sinoussi et al, 1983) 44
- Helicobacter pylori (Marshall et al, 1985) 46
- Embryonic Stem Cells Grown Artificially
- (Gearhart, 1997) 48
- HISTORY OF LIFE 50
- First Clues About How Life Began (Miller, 1953) 54
- The Early Presence of Life on Earth
- (Mojzsis et al, 1996) 56
- The Origin of Higher Organisms (Sagan, 1967) 58
- Nemesis of the Dinosaurs (Alvarez et al, 1980) 60
- 'Lucy' (Johanson and Taieb, 1976) 62
- The 'Taung Child' (Dart, 1925) 64
- BIOLOGY 66
- Conditioned Reflexes (Pavlov, 1906) 70
- Bacteriophages (d'Herelle, 1917) 72
- The Vertebrate Organiser
- (Spemann and Mangold, 1924) 74
- Urease (Sumner, 1926) 76
- Progesterone (Corner and Allen, 1929) 78
- The Krebs Cycle (Krebs and Johnson, 1937) 80
- ATP (Lipmann, 1941) 82
- Bee Dances (von Frisch, 1946) 84
- Evolution Driven by Competition
- (Lack, 1947) 86
- How Nerves Work (Hodgkin et al, 1952;
- Hodgkin and Huxley, 1952) 88
- The Chemical Composition of Insulin
- (Sanger and Thompson, 1953) 90
- The Structure of Vitamin B12
- (Hodgkin et al, 1956) 92
- The Calvin Cycle in Photosynthesis
- (Calvin, 1962) 94
- Monoclonal Antibodies (Kohler and
- Milstein, 1975) 96
- GENETICS 98
- One Gene-One Enzyme (Garrod, 1909) 102
- Genes on Chromosomes (Morgan, 1910) 104
- Genes are Made of DNA (Avery et al, 1944) 106
- Gene Recombination in Bacteria
- (Lederberg and Tatum, 1946) 108
- Transposons (McClintock, 1951) 110
- The DNA Double Helix (Watson and
- Crick, 1953) 112
- The Central Dogma (Crick, 1958) 114
- The Nature of the DNA Code
- (Crick et al, 1961) 116
- The Operon (Jacob and Monod, 1961) 118
- Reverse Transcriptase (Baltimore, 1970;
- Temin and Mitsuzani, 1970) 120
- Oncogenes (Martin, 1970) 122
- Sequencing a Genome (Sanger et al, 1977) 124
- The Antibody Problem (Tonegawa, 1983) 126
- Homeobox Genes (McGinnis et al, 1984) 128
- DNA Fingerprints (Jeffreys et al, 1985) 130
- 'Dolly', the Cloned Sheep (Wilmut et al, 1997) 132
- ASTRONOMY AND COSMOLOGY 134
- Galaxies (Hubble, 1925) 138
- The Expanding Universe (Hubble, 1929) 140
- Pluto (Tombaugh, 1930) 142
- What Makes Stars Shine (Bethe and
- Critchfield, 1938; Bethe, 1939) 144
- The Age of the Solar System (Patterson, 1955) 146
- The Origin of the Chemical Elements
- (Burbidge et al, 1957) 148
- Quasars (Hazard et al, 1963; Schmidt, 1963;
- Oke, 1963; Greenstein and Matthews, 1963) 150
- Proof of the Big Bang (Penzias and Wilson, 1965) 152
- Pulsars (Hewish et al, 1968) 154
- Organic Molecules in Interstellar Space
- (Snyder et al, 1969) 156
- Gamma-Ray Bursters (Djorgovski et al, 1997;
- Metzger et al, 1997) 158
- Planets Orbiting Other Stars (Mayor and
- Queroz, 1997) 160
- The Age of the Universe (Freedman et al, 2000) 162
- EARTH SCIENCES 164
- The Earth's Core (Oldham, 1906) 168
- The Moho (Mohorovicic, 1909) 170
- The Ionosphere (Appleton and Barnett, 1925) 172
- Plate Tectonics (Morgan, 1968) 174
- Methane Clathrate in the Ocean Depths
- (Hollister et al, 1972) 176
- Black Smokers (Spiess et al, 1980) 178
- The Ozone Hole (Farman et al, 1985) 180
- CHEMISTRY 182
- The Haber Process (Haber, 1909) 186
- Chemical Bonds (Lewis, 1916) 188
- Polymers (Staudinger and Fritschi, 1922) 190
- Plutonium (McMillan and Abelson, 1940) 192
- Ziegler-Natta Catalysts (Ziegler et al, 1955) 194
- Buckminsterfullerene (Kroto et al, 1985) 196
- High-Temperature Superconductors
- (Muller and Bednorz, 1986) 198
- PHYSICS 200
- The Quantum Theory (Planck, 1900) 204
- Radioactive Decay (Rutherford and Soddy, 1903) 206
- Proof That Atoms Exist (Einstein, 1905) 208
- Photons (Einstein, 1905) 210
- Special Relativity (Einstein, 1905) 212
- Superconductivity (Kammelingh Onnes, 1911) 214
- The Atomic Nucleus (Rutherford, 1911) 216
- Cosmic Rays (Hess, 1912) 218
- General Relativity (Einstein, 1915) 220
- The Proton (Rutherford, 1919) 222
- The Quantum Atom (Bohr, 1923) 224
- The Uncertainty Principle (Heisenberg, 1927) 226
- The Positron (Anderson, 1932) 228
- The Neutron (Chadwick, 1932) 230
- Nuclear Fusion (Rutherford et al, 1933) 232
- Nuclear Fission (Hahn and Strassmann, 1939) 234
- The Transistor (Bardeen and Brittain, 1948) 236
- The Neutrino (Reines and Cowan, 1953) 238
- The Hunting of the Quarks (Friedman, 1972) 240
- The W and Z Particles (Arnison et al, 1983) 242
- Bose-Einstein Condensate (Anderson et al, 1995) 244.
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- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Discoveries in science -- History -- 20th century
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