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  2. List of inventors - Wikipedia

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    Heron (c. 10–70), Roman Egypt – usually credited with invention of the aeolipile, although it may have been described a century earlier; John Herschel (1792–1871), UK – photographic fixer (hypo), actinometer; Harry Houdini (1874–1926) U.S. – flight time illusion; Heinrich Hertz (1857–1894), Germany – radio telegraphy ...

  3. List of prolific inventors - Wikipedia

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    Inv / Pat: The average number of inventors listed on the inventor's most recent 50 patents as of September 7, 2021 or on the date the inventor was added to the table if later. "NA" signifies the inventor was active prior to digital records. Pat Residence: The country of inventor's residence listed in their most recent patent issuance.

  4. Category : Lists of inventions or discoveries - Wikipedia

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    This category contains lists on inventions and discoveries, whether organised by nationality, religion, subject matter, organization or individual. See also: Category:Astronomical discoveries by institution , Category:Discoveries by astronomer , Category:Discoverers , Category:Science and technology by location , Category:Inventions by country ...

  5. 9 discoveries that have fundamentally altered our ... - AOL

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    Scientists have dated the paintings to be between 13,000 to 14,000 years old. In the decades since the Altamira cave's discovery, researchers have found many more examples of prehistoric cave art.

  6. Timeline of scientific discoveries - Wikipedia

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    1983: Kary Mullis invents the polymerase chain reaction, a key discovery in molecular biology; 1986: Karl Müller and Johannes Bednorz: Discovery of High-temperature superconductivity; 1988: Bart van Wees and colleagues at TU Delft and Philips Research discovered the quantized conductance in a two-dimensional electron gas.

  7. Lists of scientists - Wikipedia

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    List of African educators, scientists and scholars; List of Argentine scientists; List of Armenian scientists and philosophers. List of African-American inventors and scientists; List of Arab scientists and scholars; List of Austrian scientists; List of Azerbaijani scientists and philosophers; List of Brazilian scientists; List of Bangladeshi ...

  8. List of people considered father or mother of a scientific field

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    For their role in the Manhattan Project: Aerodynamics: Nikolai Zhukovsky George Cayley [133] Zhukovsky was the first to undertake the study of airflow, was the first engineer scientist to explain mathematically the origin of aerodynamic lift. Cayley Investigated theoretical aspects of flight and experimented with flight a century before the ...

  9. An Australian scientist who was the only foreigner at the ...

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    Danielle Anderson, 42, worked at the Wuhan Institute of Virology's BSL-4 lab until November 2019. She told Bloomberg News she saw no sign of illness.