Categories - Science
- Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Scrolls
- Archimedes
- Ardrey’s The Territorial Imperative Argues That Humans Are Naturally Territorial
- Aristotle
- Armstrong Perfects FM Radio
- Arnold and Gottlieb Publish The Wise Use Agenda
- The Arroyo Seco Freeway Opens in Los Angeles
- Arthur Holly Compton
- Artificial Fluoridation of Municipal Water Supplies to Prevent Dental Decay Is Introduced
- The Artificial Sweetener Cyclamate Is Introduced
- Asa Gray
- Asclepiades of Bithynia
- Aserinsky Discovers Rapid Eye Movement (REM) in Sleep and Dreams
- Aston Builds the First Mass Spectrograph and Discovers Isotopes
- Astronauts Renovate Hubble Telescope
- Astronauts Repair the Hubble Space Telescope
- Astronomers Detect Black Hole
- Astronomers Detect Planets Orbiting Another Star
- Astronomers Discover an Unusual Ring System of Planet Neptune
- Astronomers Discover Solar System with Three Planets
- Astronomers Discover the Rings of the Planet Uranus
- Astronomers See Light from Object 12.2 Billion Light-Years Away
- Astronomy
- Atlas-Centaur Rocket Is Developed
- Atomic Bombing of Japan
- Atomic Bombs Destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Atomic Energy Act
- The Atomic Energy Commission Is Established
- August Krogh
- August Weismann
- Auguste Comte Advances Theory of Positivism
- Automakers Introduce the Catalytic Converter
- Avery, Macleod, and McCarty Determine That DNA Carries Hereditary Information
- Avicenna
- Baade Corrects an Error in the Cepheid Luminosity Scale
- Bacon Designs First Fuel Cell
- Baekeland Invents Bakelite
- Banach Sets Stage for Abstract Spaces
- Bardeen, Cooper, and Schrieffer Explain Superconductivity
- Barghoorn and Coworkers Find Amino Acids in 3-Billion-Year-Old Rocks
- Barghoorn and Tyler Discover 2-Billion-Year-Old Microfossils
- Barkla Discovers the Characteristic X Rays of the Elements
- Barnard Performs the First Human Heart Transplant
- Baron Florey
- Bateson and Punnett Observe Gene Linkage
- Baulieu Develops RU-486, a Pill That Induces Abortion
- Bayliss and Starling Discover Secretin and Establish the Role of Hormones
- The Becquerel Family
- Becquerel Wins the Nobel Prize for the Discovery of Natural Radioactivity
- Bednorz and Müller Discover a High-Temperature Superconductor
