Subcategories - Scientists

  1. Carothers Patents Nylon
  2. Carson Publishes Silent Spring
  3. Carter Discovers the Tomb of Tutankhamen
  4. The Cassette for Recording and Playing Back Sound Is Introduced
  5. Cassinelli and Associates Discover R136a, the Most Massive Star Known
  6. Cech Demonstrates That RNA Can Act as an Enzyme
  7. Chadwick Discovers the Neutron
  8. Chandrasekhar Calculates the Upper Limit of a White Dwarf Star’s Mass
  9. Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
  10. Chapman Determines the Lunar Atmospheric Tide at Moderate Latitudes
  11. Charles Darwin
  12. Charles-Édouard Guillaume
  13. Cherenkov Discovers the Cherenkov Effect
  14. The Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor Explodes
  15. Christiaan Huygens
  16. Claude Bernard
  17. Clewell Corrects Hydrocephalus by Surgery on a Fetus
  18. Clyde William Tombaugh
  19. Cohen and Boyer Develop Recombinant DNA Technology
  20. Colin Maclaurin
  21. Columbia’s Second Flight Proves the Practicality of the Space Shuttle
  22. Compact Disc Players Are Introduced
  23. The Completion of Boulder Dam Creates Lake Mead, the World’s Largest Reservoir
  24. Compton Discovers the Wavelength Change of Scattered X Rays
  25. Comte de Buffon
  26. Conrad Gesner
  27. Construction Begins on the Empire State Building
  28. Construction Begins on the Panama Canal
  29. Construction of the World’s Largest Telescope Begins in Hawaii
  30. Controversy Arises over Estrogen and Heart Attacks
  31. Copernicus Publishes Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies
  32. Corning Glass Works Trademarks Pyrex and Offers Pyrex Cookware for Commercial Sale
  33. A Corroded Mechanism Is Recognized as an Ancient Astronomical Computer
  34. Cottrell Invents the Electronstat Precipitation Process
  35. Cousteau and Gagnan Develop the Aqualung
  36. Ctesibius of Alexandria
  37. Daffos Uses Blood Taken Through the Umbilical Cord to Diagnose Fetal Disease
  38. Dart Discovers the First Recognized Australopithecine Fossil
  39. Darwin Publishes On the Origin of Species
  40. Davis Constructs a Solar Neutrino Detector
  41. De Broglie Introduces the Theory of Wave-Particle Duality
  42. De Vaucouleurs Identifies the Local Supercluster of Galaxies
  43. Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents and New Life-Forms Are Discovered
  44. Denis Papin
  45. DeVries Implants the First Jarvik-7 Artificial Heart
  46. Direct Transoceanic Dialing Begins
  47. Discoveries of Archimedes
  48. Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev
  49. DNA Tests Indicate That Jefferson Fathered Slave’s Child
  50. Doell and Dalrymple Discover the Magnetic Reversals of Earth’s Poles