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1. Abel and Takamine Independently Isolate Adrenaline
2. Abel Develops the First Artificial Kidney
3. An Ancient Sanctuary Is Discovered in El Juyo Cave, Spain
4. Andrews Discovers the First Fossilized Dinosaur Eggs
5. Anschütz-Kaempfe Installs a Gyrocompass onto a German Battleship
6. Anthropologists Claim That Ecuadorian Pottery Shows Transpacific Contact in 3000 b.c.e.
7. Anthropologists Discover “Lucy,” an Early Hominid Skeleton
8. Apple II Becomes the First Successful Preassembled Personal Computer
9. Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Scrolls
10. Ardrey’s The Territorial Imperative Argues That Humans Are Naturally Territorial
11. Armstrong Perfects FM Radio
12. Artificial Fluoridation of Municipal Water Supplies to Prevent Dental Decay Is Introduced
13. The Artificial Sweetener Cyclamate Is Introduced
14. Aserinsky Discovers Rapid Eye Movement (REM) in Sleep and Dreams
15. Aston Builds the First Mass Spectrograph and Discovers Isotopes
16. Astronomers Discover an Unusual Ring System of Planet Neptune
17. Astronomers Discover the Rings of the Planet Uranus
18. Avery, Macleod, and McCarty Determine That DNA Carries Hereditary Information
19. Baade Corrects an Error in the Cepheid Luminosity Scale
20. Baekeland Invents Bakelite
21. Bardeen, Cooper, and Schrieffer Explain Superconductivity
22. Barghoorn and Coworkers Find Amino Acids in 3-Billion-Year-Old Rocks
23. Barghoorn and Tyler Discover 2-Billion-Year-Old Microfossils
24. Barkla Discovers the Characteristic X Rays of the Elements
25. Barnard Performs the First Human Heart Transplant
26. Bateson and Punnett Observe Gene Linkage
27. Baulieu Develops RU-486, a Pill That Induces Abortion
28. Bayliss and Starling Discover Secretin and Establish the Role of Hormones
29. Becquerel Wins the Nobel Prize for the Discovery of Natural Radioactivity
30. Bednorz and Müller Discover a High-Temperature Superconductor
31. Beebe and Barton Set a Diving Record in a Bathysphere
32. Behring Discovers the Diphtheria Antitoxin
33. Bell Discovers Pulsars, the Key to Neutron Stars
34. Bell Telephone Scientists Develop the Photovoltaic Cell
35. Benedict Publishes Patterns of Culture
36. Berg, Gilbert, and Sanger Develop Techniques for Genetic Engineering
37. Berger Develops the Electroencephalogram (EEG)
38. Bevis Describes Amniocentesis as a Method for Disclosing Fetal Genetic Traits
39. Bingham Discovers an Inca City in the Peruvian Jungle
40. Birdseye Develops Freezing as a Way of Preserving Foods
41. Birth Control Pills Are Tested in Puerto Rico
42. Bjerknes Discovers Fronts in Atmospheric Circulation
43. Blalock Performs the First “Blue Baby” Operation
44. Blériot Makes the First Airplane Flight Across the English Channel
45. Boas Publishes The Mind of Primitive Man
46. Bohr Writes a Trilogy on Atomic and Molecular Structure
47. Booth Invents the Vacuum Cleaner
48. Boule Reconstructs the First Neanderthal Skeleton
49. The Bourbaki Group Publishes Éléments de mathématique
50. Boyd Defines Human Races by Blood Groups