Subcategories - Scientists

  1. Avery, Macleod, and McCarty Determine That DNA Carries Hereditary Information
  2. Avicenna
  3. Avicenna Writes His Canon of Medicine
  4. Baade Corrects an Error in the Cepheid Luminosity Scale
  5. Baekeland Invents Bakelite
  6. Bardeen, Cooper, and Schrieffer Explain Superconductivity
  7. Barghoorn and Coworkers Find Amino Acids in 3-Billion-Year-Old Rocks
  8. Barghoorn and Tyler Discover 2-Billion-Year-Old Microfossils
  9. Barkla Discovers the Characteristic X Rays of the Elements
  10. Barnard Performs the First Human Heart Transplant
  11. Baron Florey
  12. Bateson and Punnett Observe Gene Linkage
  13. Baulieu Develops RU-486, a Pill That Induces Abortion
  14. The Becquerel Family
  15. Becquerel Wins the Nobel Prize for the Discovery of Natural Radioactivity
  16. Bednorz and Müller Discover a High-Temperature Superconductor
  17. Beebe and Barton Set a Diving Record in a Bathysphere
  18. Bell Discovers Pulsars, the Key to Neutron Stars
  19. Bell Telephone Scientists Develop the Photovoltaic Cell
  20. Benedict Publishes Patterns of Culture
  21. Benjamin Banneker
  22. Berg, Gilbert, and Sanger Develop Techniques for Genetic Engineering
  23. Berger Develops the Electroencephalogram (EEG)
  24. Bernhard Voldemar Schmidt
  25. The Bernoulli Family
  26. Bevis Describes Amniocentesis as a Method for Disclosing Fetal Genetic Traits
  27. Bingham Discovers an Inca City in the Peruvian Jungle
  28. Birdseye Develops Freezing as a Way of Preserving Foods
  29. Birth Control Pills Are Tested in Puerto Rico
  30. Bjerknes Discovers Fronts in Atmospheric Circulation
  31. Blaise Pascal
  32. Blalock Performs the First “Blue Baby” Operation
  33. Blériot Makes the First Airplane Flight Across the English Channel
  34. Boas Publishes The Mind of Primitive Man
  35. Bohr Writes a Trilogy on Atomic and Molecular Structure
  36. Boule Reconstructs the First Neanderthal Skeleton
  37. The Bourbaki Group Publishes Éléments de mathématique
  38. Boyd Defines Human Races by Blood Groups
  39. Brandenberger Invents Cellophane
  40. The British Antarctic Survey Confirms the First Known Hole in the Ozone Layer
  41. Brown Gives Birth to the First “Test-Tube” Baby
  42. Bubble Memory Devices Are Created for Use in Computers
  43. Burton Introduces Thermal Cracking for Refining Petroleum
  44. Bush Builds the First Differential Analyzer
  45. Cai Lun Invents Paper
  46. Calmette and Guérin Develop the Tuberculosis Vaccine BCG
  47. Calvin Wins the Nobel Prize for His Work on Photosynthesis
  48. Carl Friedrich Gauss
  49. Carl Sagan
  50. Carlson Invents Xerography