Appendix 3: The Next 40
This table is a list of 40 important discoveries that almost made the final list of the
greatest 100. Each is worthy of consideration, honor, and study. Pick one or more of these to
research and describe.
Earth is a sphere
The heavens are not fixed and
unchanging
The nature of light
Compressibility of gasses
Lift/fluid pressure
Comets have predictable orbits
Hydrogen
Origin of the solar system
Mass of the earth
Liquification of gasses
Fingerprints, uniqueness of
Magnetic induction
Age of the sun
Sun is a gas
Age of the earth
Antiseptics
Plastics
Alternating current
Bacteriology
Earth’s magnetic field reversals
Chemotherapy
Cosmic radiation
Electroencephalogram
adjustrightBrucellosis bacterium
Exclusion principle
Neutrino
Galaxies emit radio waves
Artificial radioactivity
Cortisone
Sulfa drugs
Radiation therapy
Laser
Aristotle
Brahe
387 B.C.
1574
Galileo, Newton, Young, Einstein
Boyle
Bernoulli
Halley
Cavendish
Laplace
Cavendish
Faraday
Purkinje
Faraday
Helmholtz
Carrington
Lyell (first), Holmes (accurate)
Lister
Hyatt
Tesla
Koch
Brunhes
Ehrlich
Hess
Berger
Evans
Pauli
Pauli
Jansky
Curie and Joliot
Kendall
Domagk
Priore
Townes and Gould
various years
1688
1738
1758
1776
1796
1798
1818
1823
1831
1853
1859
1860, 1940
1863
1869
1883
1890
1906
1906
1911
1924
1925
1926
1926
1932
1934
1935
1936
1950
1954/1957
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