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PEOPLE WHO DIED FOR THEIR MUSIC
The Strong Heroes Of Moscow
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TIMELINE: PEOPLE WHO GOT US FROM CAVEMAN TO SPACE TRAVEL
Let’s get this thing started. Euclid (LINK) 323–283 BCE. Wrote a series of 13 books on geometry called The Elements. ((BLURB))
2. 280 BCE Aristarchus of Samos: used a heliocentric, heliostatic model
((A what?))
3. 150s BCE Seleucus of Seleucia: discovery of tides being caused by the moon
(That’s cool!)
4. 2nd century 150 Ptolemy: produced the geocentric model of the solar system.
(My man!)
5. 10th century 984 Ibn Sahl accurately describes the optics which became known as Snell’s law of refraction.
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6. 11th century:1021 Ibn al-Haytham’s Book of Optics. First use of controlled experiments and reproducibility of its results
7. 11th century:1054 Various early astronomers observe supernova (modern designation SN 1054), later correlated to the Crab Nebula.
8. 12th century: 1121 Al-Khazini variation of gravitation and gravitational potential energy at a distance; the decrease of air density with altitude.
9. 13th century: 1220–1235
Robert Grosseteste designed the rudimentals of the scientific method.
0. 13th century: 1242
Ibn al-Nafis discovered both the pulmonary circulation and circulatory systems.
11. 15th century: 1494
Luca Pacioli: first codification of the Double-entry bookkeeping system, which slowly developed in previous centuries.
12. 16th century: 1543
Vesalius was the pioneer in researching into human anatomy
13. 16th century: 1543
Vesalius pioneered the research into human anatomy.
14. 16th century: 1600
William Gilbert pioneered research in the Earth’s magnetic field.
15. 17th century: 1609
Johannes Kepler discovered the first two laws of planetary motion.
16. 17th century: 1610
Galileo Galilei invented the Sidereus Nuncius for telescopic observations.
17. 17th century: 1614
John Napier use of logarithms for calculation.
18. 17th century: 1619
Johannes Kepler discovered the third law of planetary motion.
19. 17th century: 1628
Willebrord Snellius improved on the law of refraction also known as Snell’s law
20. 17th century: 1638
Galileo Galilei discovered the laws of falling bodies.
21. 17th century: 1643
Evangelista Torricelli invents the mercury barometer.
22. 17th century: 1662
Robert Boyle discovered Boyle’s law of ideal gas.
23. 17th century: 1665
Robert Hooke Discovers the Cell.
24. 17th century: 1669
Nicholas Steno discovered the Proposes that fossils are organic remains embedded in layers of sediment, hence the basis of stratigraphy.
25. 17th century: 1669
Jan Swammerdam discovered Epigenesis in insects.
26. 17th century: 1672
Sir Isaac Newton: discovers that white light is a spectrum of a mixture of distinct colored rays
27. 17th century: 1673
Christiaan Huygens does the first study of oscillating system and design of pendulum clocks.
28. 17th century: 1675
Anton van Leeuwenhoek Observes Microorganisms by Microscope.
29. 17th century: 1676
Ole Rømer makes the first measurement of the speed of light.
30. 17th century: 1687
Sir Isaac Newton’s Classical Mathematical description of the fundamental force of universal gravitation and the three physical laws of motion.
31. 18th century: 1745
Ewald Jürgen Georg von Kleist creates first capacitor, the Leyden jar.
32. 18th century:1751
Benjamin Franklin discovers Lightning is electrical.
33. 18th century:1761
Mikhail Lomonosov makes discovery of the atmosphere of Venus.
34. 18th century:1771
Charles Messier Publishes catalogue of astronomical objects (Messier Objects) now known to include galaxies, star clusters, and nebulae.
35. 18th century: 1781
William Herschel announces discovery of Uranus, expanding the known boundaries of the solar system for the first time in modern history.
36. 18th century: 1785
William Withering: publishes the first definitive account of the use of foxglove (digitalis) for treating dropsy.
37. 18th century: 1789
Antoine Lavoisier discovers the law of conservation of mass, basis for chemistry, and the beginning of modern chemistry.
38. 18th century: 1796
Georges Cuvier Establishes extinction as a fact
39. 18th century: 1796
Edward Jenner starts small pox historical accounting.
40. 18th century: 1796
Hanaoka Seishū develops general anaesthesia.
41. 18th century: 1800
Alessandro Volta: discovers electrochemical series and invents the battery.
42. 19th century: 1805
John Dalton discovers the Atomic Theory in Chemistry.
43. 19th century: 1820
Hans Christian Ørsted discovers that a current passed through a wire will deflect the needle of a compass, establishing a deep relationship between electricity and magnetism (electromagnetism).
44. 19th century: 1821
Thomas Johann Seebeck is the first to observe a property of semiconductors.
45. 19th century: 1827
Georg Ohm states the Ohm’s law, the Law of Electricity.
46. 19th century: 1827
Amedeo Avogadro invented the Avogadro’s law, the Gas law.
47. 19th century: 1827
Amedeo Avogadro invented the Avogadro’s law The Gas law.
48. 19th century: 1828
Friedrich Wöhler synthesized urea, destroying vitalism
49. 19th century: 1830
Nikolai Lobachevsky created Non-Euclidean geometry
50. 19th century: 1833
Anselme Payen isolates first enzyme, diastase.
51. 19th century: 1838
Matthias Schleiden discovers all plants are made of cells.
52. 19th century: 1838
Friedrich Bessel makes first successful measure of stellar parallax to star 61 Cygni.
53. 19th century: 1842
Christian Doppler discovers the Doppler effect.
54. 19th century: 1843
James Prescott Joule states the Law of Conservation of energy the First law of thermodynamics, also 1847 – Helmholtz, Conservation of energy.
55. 19th century: 1846
Johann Gottfried Galle and Heinrich Louis d’Arrest discovery of Neptune.
55. 19th century: 1846
Johann Gottfried Galle and Heinrich Louis d’Arrest discovery of Neptune.
56. 19th century: 1848
Lord Kelvin discovers absolute zero.
57. 19th century: 1858
Rudolf Virchow discovers cells can only arise from pre-existing cells.
58. 19th century: 1859
Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace: Theory of evolution by natural selection
59. 19th century: 1861
John Tyndall makes Experiments in Radiant Energy that reinforced the Greenhouse Effect.
60. 19th century: 1864
James Clerk Maxwell defines the Theory of electromagnetism.
61. 19th century: 1865
Gregor Mendel discovers the Mendel’s laws of inheritance, basis of genetics.
62. 19th century: 1869
Dmitri Mendeleev creates the Periodic table.
63. 19th century: 1871
Lord Rayleigh discovers Diffuse sky radiation, Rayleigh scattering, explains why sky appears blue.
64. 19th century: 1873
Willoughby Smith discovers photoconductivity.
65. 19th century: 1875
William Crookes invented the Crookes tube and studied cathode rays.
66. 19th century: 1876
Josiah Willard Gibbs founded chemical thermodynamics, the phase rule.
67. 19th century: 1884
Jacobus Henricus van ‘t Hoff: discovered the laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure in solutions (in his work “Etudes de dynamique chimique”).
68. 19th century: 1887
Albert A. Michelson and Edward W. Morley find lack of evidence for the aether.
69. 19th century: 1888
Friedrich Reinitzer discovers liquid crystals.
70. 19th century: 1892
Dmitri Ivanovsky discovers for the first time a virus.
71. 19th century: 1895
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovers x-rays.
72. 19th century: 1898
Martinus Beijerinck concluded a virus infectious—replicating in the host—and thus not a mere toxin and gave it the name ‘virus.
73. 19th century: 1898
J.J. Thomson proposed the Plum pudding model of an atom.
74. 19th century: 1898
Marie Curie discovers polonium, radium, and coins the term “radioactivity”.
75. 19th century: 1900
Max Planck, Planck’s law of black body radiation, basis for quantum theory.
76. 20th century: 1901
Annie Jump Cannon discovers stellar classification.
77. 20th century: 1905
Albert Einstein creates the theory of special relativity, explanation of Brownian motion, and the photoelectric effect.
78. 20th century: 1906
Walther Nernst discovers the Third law of thermodynamics.
79. 20th century: 1909
Fritz Haber designs the Haber Process for industrial production of ammonia.
80. 20th century: 1909
Robert Andrews Millikan conducts the oil drop experiment and determines the charge on an electron.
81. 20th century: 1910
Williamina Fleming is the first white dwarf, 40 Eridani B.
82. 20th century : 1911
Ernest Rutherford discovers the Atomic nucleus.
83. 20th century: 1911
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers Superconductivity.
84. 20th century: 1912
Alfred Wegener discovers Continental drift.
85. 20th century: 1912
Vesto Slipher discovers galactic redshifts.
86. 20th century: 1913
Henry Moseley defines atomic number
87. 20th century: 1915
Albert Einstein discovers the theory of general relativity.
88. 20th century: 1915
Karl Schwarzschild makes discovery of the Schwarzschild radius leading to the identification of black holes.
89. 20th century: 1920
Arthur Eddington discovers Stellar nucleosynthesis.
90. 20th century: 1922
Frederick Banting, Charles Best, James Collip, John Macleod: isolation and production of insulin to control diabetes.
91. 20th century: 1924
Edwin Hubble makes the discovery that the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies
92. 20th century: 1925
Erwin Schrödinger defines Schrödinger equation, the Quantum mechanics.
3. 20th century: 1925
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin makes the Discovery of the composition of the Sun and that Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the Universe
94. 20th century: 1927
Georges Lemaîtrestats the Theory of the Big Bang.
95. 20th century: 1928
Paul Dirac states the Dirac equation in Quantum mechanics.
96. 20th century: 1929
Edwin Hubble states the Hubble’s law of the expanding universe.
97. 20th century: 1928
Alexander Fleming discovers Penicillin, the first beta-lactam antibiotic.
98. 20th century: 1929
Lars Onsager’s reciprocal relations, a potential fourth law of thermodynamics.
99. 20th century: 1930
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar discovers his eponymous limit of the maximum mass of a white dwarf star.
100. 20th century: 1932
James Chadwick makes the Discovery of the neutron.
101. 20th century: 1932
Karl Guthe Jansky discovers the first astronomical radio source, Sagittarius A.
102. 20th century: 1934
Clive McCay, Calorie restriction extends the maximum lifespan of another species.
103. 20th century: 1938
Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner and Fritz Strassmann in Nuclear fission.
104. 20th century: 1938
Isidor Rabi discovers Nuclear magnetic resonance.
105. 20th century: 1943
Oswald Avery proves that DNA is the genetic material of the chromosome
106. 20th century: 1945
Howard Florey starts Mass production of penicillin.
107. 20th century: 1947
William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain invent the first transistor.
108. 20th century: 1948
Claude Elwood Shannon discovers ‘A mathematical theory of communication’ a seminal paper in Information Theory.
109. 20th century: 1951
George Otto Gey propagates first cancer cell line, HeLa.
110. 20th century: 1952
Jonas Salk develops and tests first polio vaccine.
111. 20th century: 1953
Crick and Watson helical structure of DNA, basis for molecular biology.
112. 20th century: 1962
Riccardo Giacconi and his team discover the first cosmic x-ray source, Scorpius X-1.
113. 20th century: 1963
Lawrence Morley, Fred Vine, and Drummond Matthews, Paleomagnetic stripes in ocean crust as evidence of plate tectonics the Vine-Matthews-Morley hypothesis.
114. 20th century: 1964
Arno Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson, detection of CMBR providing experimental evidence for the Big Bang.
115. 20th century: 1965
Leonard Hayflick discovers that normal cells divide only a certain number of times and calls it the Hayflick limit.
116. 20th century: 1967
Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish discover the first pulsar.
117. 20th century: 1967
Vela nuclear test detection satellites discover the first gamma-ray burst.
118. 20th century: 1971
Place cells in the brain are discovered by John O’Keefe.
119. 20th century: 1974
Russell Alan Hulse and Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. discover indirect evidence for gravitational wave radiation in the Hulse–Taylor binary.
120. 20th century: 1982
Becker et al. discover the first millisecond pulsar.
121. 20th century: 1986
Karl Müller and Johannes Bednorz: Discovery of High-temperature superconductivity.
122. 20th century: 1995
Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz definitively observe the first extrasolar planet around a main sequence star.
123. 20th century: 1996
Roslin Institute created Dolly the sheep was cloned
124. 20th century: 1998
Supernova Cosmology Project and the High-Z Supernova Search Team. The discovery of the accelerated expansion of the Universe / Dark Energy.
125. 21th century: 2001
The first draft of the Human Genome Project is published.
126. 21th century: 2005
Grid cells in the brain are discovered by Edvard Moser and May-Britt Moser.
127. 21th century: 2010
J. Craig Venter Institute creates the first synthetic genome for a bacterial cell.
128. 21th century: 2010
The Neanderthal Genome Project presented preliminary genetic evidence that interbreeding did likely take place and that a small but significant portion of Neanderthal admixture is present in modern non-African populations
129. 21th century: 2012
Higgs Boson is discovered at CERN, confirmed to 99.999% certainty.
130. 21th century: 2012
Photonic molecules are discovered at MIT.
131. 21st century: 2014
Exotic hadrons are discovered at the LHCb.
132. 21st century: 2015
Traces of liquid water discovered on Mars.
133. 21st century: 2016
The LIGO team detected gravitational waves from a black hole merger.
133. 21st century: 2016
The LIGO team detected gravitational waves from a black hole merger.
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