Appendix 1: Discoveries by Scientific Field 231
Earth Sciences
Discovery
Discovering Scientist
Year
Page
Gulf Stream
Franklin, Benjamin
Humbolt, A. von
Hutton, James
Agassiz, Louis
Milankovich, Milutin
de Bort, L. Teisserenc
Reid, Harry
Gutenberg, Beno
Wegener, Alfred
Tansley, Arthur
Hess, Harry
Lorenz, Ed
1770
1814
1792
1837
1920
1902
1911
1914
1915
1935
1957
1960
40
41
51
69
70
107
126
136
138
169
199
201
Discovering Scientist
Year
Page
Hooke, Robert
Steno, Nicholas
Leeuwenhoek, Anton van
Linnaeus, Carl
Ingenhousz, Jan
Buckland, William
Mantell, Gideon
Pasteur, Louis
Thomson, Charles
Flemming, Walther
Beijerinick, Martinus
Ivanovsky, Dmitri
Claude, Albert
Miller, Stanley
Bakker, Robert
1665
1669
1680
1735
1779
1824
1824
1856
1870
1882
1898
1898
1933
1952
1976
21
25
29
33
45
67
67
77
88
92
101
101
165
194
213
Erosion (weathering)
Ice ages
Atmospheric layers
Fault lines
Earth’s core
Continental drift
Ecosystem
Seafloor spreading
Chaos theory
Life Sciences
Discovery
Biology
Cells
Fossils
Bacteria
Taxonomy system
Photosynthesis
Dinosaur fossils
Germ theory
Deep-sea life
Cell division
Virus
Cell structure
Origins of life
Nature of dinosaurs