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Scientist
Discovery
1021
Book of Optics
1242
Pulmonary circulation and circulatory system
1543
Heliocentric Model
1600
Earth's Magnetic Field
1609
First Two Laws of Planetary Motion
1662
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1687
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1751
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1778
Discovery of Oxygen
1781
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1827
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Scientist
Discovery
1896
Radioactivity
1905
Theory of Special Relativity
1906
Third Law of Thermodynamics
1913
Model of the Atom
1915
Theory of General Relativity
1924
Milky Way is just one of many Galaxies
1927
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1927
Theory of the Big Bang
1928
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Expanding Universe
1943
DNA is the Genetic Material of the Chromosome
1952
First Polio Vaccine
1953
Helical structure of DNA
1964
Detection of CMBR (Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation)
1995
Observation the First Extrasolar Planet
1998
Expansion of the Universe is Accelerating
2001
Human Genome
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Timeline of Scientific Discoveries Quiz
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Created Jul 16, 2011 in
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yggdrasil
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Jul 16th, 2011 at 17:30 GMT
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Francis Collins and J Craig Venter are the two individuals most closely associated with the human genome project and should probably be accepted as an answer.
JGSD
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Jul 16th, 2011 at 20:35 GMT
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Should make it clear that first and last names are required for some, but not others.
Thats_a_Quiz
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Jul 17th, 2011 at 02:22 GMT
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At yggdrasil, added to list At JGSD, the surnames of some of the people are already mentioned, so the user would need to know the first name of that person. eg, Boyle's Law, why type in Boyle, when it is already written there.
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