… The average omission for all the original papers is about 20 percent. There are many great
scientific discoveries of the twentieth century not included in this book. For obvious reasons, I …

… important of these, for a history of twentieth-century science, concerns why the United States
rose to become the predominant scientific … analyses the four major thematic findings of this …

… This paper reviews 12 major discoveries in geology and geophysics during the 20th century,
… on advances in the solid-earth sciences, geology and geophysics, during the 20th century. …

… organizations worldwide which have had large numbers of major breakthroughs in biomedical
science in the twentieth century, so many breakthroughs that we refer to them as “national …

… For three centuries after the discovery of the most prominent of these rings by the Dutch …
From the history of science we learn that the knowledge accepted by a scientific discipline is …

… REINVIGORATION OF PHYSICS Although some physicists believed that the vast majority
of the great discoveries in their field had already been made and that future work would simply …

… of the twentieth century, the ensuing sequence of developments resulted in scientists’ spe…
of atoms in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Dalton proposed that atoms could account …

… science during the 20th century. The focus of this paper now turns to lesser known aspects of
six discoveries … ’s scientific and clinical advances during the 20th century. In some instances…

… rise of the science writer who sensationalizes stories derived from scientific discoveries. But,
… out, genuinely popular science writing has always had as its main purpose the provision of …

… a half centuries later, we see experimental science in rapid … pre scientific thinking did build
a stable world, but science … which also led to another unexpected discovery. When I still had …