None of these discoveries were neatly rounded off bits of knowledge.

The sound discoveries of this quixotic genius were so diluted by those of fantasy that the prize was never awarded to him.

Theories of the behavior pattern of population masses were compared to scientific discoveries concerning the motion-pattern of gaseous masses.

He also developed his own highly unusual theories of physics, according to which such concepts as " penetrability ", " suction and pressure " and " zig-zag-and-swirl " were discoveries on par with Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

In this way they laid claim to new discoveries, before their results were ready for publication.

These were followed by certain discoveries made in the S. plain Messara by F. Halbherr.

Building on the founding discoveries and theories in the history of quantum mechanics, the first theoretical calculations in chemistry were those of Walter Heitler and Fritz London in 1927.

Tischendorf's Eastern journeys were rich enough in other discoveries to merit the highest praise.

These discoveries were promptly recognized.

Although Brewster's own discoveries were important, they were not his only service to science.

The discoveries of Paul Broca were made during the same period of time as the German Neurologist Carl Wernicke, who was also studying brains of aphasiacs post-mortem and identified the region now known as Wernicke's area.

These were the key discoveries that made all non-live or non live-on-videotape narrative motion pictures and television possible — that shots ( in this case whole scenes since each shot is a complete scene ) can be photographed at widely different locations over a period of time ( hours, days or even months ) and combined into a narrative whole.

He, Watson, and Maurice Wilkins were jointly awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine " for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material ".

He became known for his early predictions about the properties of the electrical particles trapped around the earth, which were partly verified by later discoveries in satellite experiments.

The realization that we live in a galaxy, and that there were, in fact, many other galaxies, parallels discoveries that were made about the Milky Way and other nebulae in the night sky.

Today, the name Coriolis has become strongly associated with meteorology, but all major discoveries about the general circulation and the relation between the pressure and wind fields were made without knowledge about Gaspard Gustave Coriolis.

Other salt dome mounds were quickly drilled, resulting in discoveries at Sour Lake ( 1902 ), Batson ( 1904 ) and Humble ( 1905 ).

Production was relatively small, however, until huge discoveries were made on Alaska's remote North Slope.

All of these discoveries were eagerly covered by the world's press, but most of their representatives were kept in their hotels ; only H. V. Morton was allowed on the scene, and his vivid descriptions helped to cement Carter's reputation with the British public.

The Robert Koch Prize and Medal were created to honour microbiologists who make groundbreaking discoveries or who contribute to global health in a unique way.

Although the results were not conclusive, and Hershey and Chase were cautious in their interpretation, previous, contemporaneous and subsequent discoveries all served to prove that DNA is the hereditary material.

At least three times, discoveries of the element 93 were falsely reported, as bohemium and ausonium in 1934, and then sequanium in 1939.

In 1835, the New York Sun newspaper wrote a series of satiric articles that came to be known as the Great Moon Hoax, with statements falsely attributed to Herschel about his supposed discoveries of animals living on the Moon, including batlike winged humanoids.

Various foreign scientific discoveries and inventions ( such as the Wright Brothers ' airplane ) were attributed to Russians in post-war Soviet propaganda.

Further development in physical chemistry may be attributed to discoveries in nuclear chemistry, especially in isotope separation ( before and during World War II ), more recent discoveries in astrochemistry, as well as the development of calculation algorithms in field of " additive physicochemical properties " ( practically all of physicochemical properties, as: boiling point, critical point, surface tension, vapor pressure etc.

There is a body of evidence that suggests that the existence of the archipelago was known by early travellers ; they were first indicated on a Venetian chart attributed to the brothers Domenico and Francesco Pizzigano dating from 1367. Although the Canary Islands had been inhabited by a primitive population ( the Guanches ), human beings had never been known to set foot in the Madeira archipelago or the Savage Islands before the Portuguese discoveries and expansion.

Thales is also thought to be the earliest known man in history to whom specific mathematical discoveries have been attributed.

Pythagoras established an order called the Pythagoreans, which held knowledge and property in common and hence all of the discoveries by individual Pythagoreans were attributed to the order.

Santa Maria's discovery was attributed to Gonçalo Velho Cabral in 1432 ( rather than the pilot Silves ), since discoveries were not " recognized officially " until they declared so by the Portuguese Crown, who registered them in Cabral's name, as commander of the voyage ( he had already commanded two voyages of exploration in 1431-1432 ).

Although much undiscovered land would have been traversed, no journal was kept so no discoveries were attributed to the men.

When Spanish medieval pottery was first studied in the 19th century, there was awareness of the Valencian centres but very little of the Andalucian ones, and there has been a steady re-attribution of types of pottery formerly attributed to Manises to Malaga and the south, which was still continuing in the 1980s, following archaeological discoveries in Malaga, and scientific analysis of the clays used.

AMC is attributed as the site where David S. Sheridan perfected the modern-day disposable catheter, among other major discoveries and innovations.

Proceeding to England, he was introduced to Sir Isaac Newton, who found in him one of the earliest defenders of his discoveries.

Reflecting the fundamental importance and applicability of MRI in medicine, Paul Lauterbur of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Sir Peter Mansfield of the University of Nottingham were awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their " discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging ".

At the 2011 Chelsea Flower Show, an exhibition garden celebrated the historic link between naturalist Sir Joseph Banks and the botanical discoveries of flora and fauna on his journey through South America, Tahiti, New Zealand and eventually Australia on Captain Cook's ship Endeavour.

Scholars in the 19th and 20th centuries had relied upon Herodotus's account, but Sir Henry Layard's discoveries in the royal archives at Nineveh and Calah have enabled the study of new source material that is several centuries earlier than Herodotus's history.

New scientific discoveries found by Sir Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and many others were increasingly added to the school curriculum and studied by an increasingly widening student body.

Dart's closest ally was Robert Broom whose discoveries of further Australopithecines ( as well as Wilfrid Le Gros Clark's support ) eventually vindicated Dart, so much so that in 1947 Sir Arthur Keith said "... Dart was right, and I was wrong ".

Bass was an enthusiastic naturalist and botanist, and he forwarded some of his botanical discoveries to Sir Joseph Banks in London.

At the request of the Governor of New South Wales, Sir George Gipps, he made a geological and mineralogical survey of the Gippsland region in present-day eastern Victoria, where he made many discoveries.

This discovery was shown on the Muscovy Company's map ( 1625 ; but based on discoveries made in and prior to 1622 ), with the island labeled as Sir Thomas Smyth's Iland.

George Herbert Hitchings ( April 18, 1905 – February 27, 1998 ) was an American doctor who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Sir James Black and Gertrude Elion " for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment ," Hitchings specifically for his work on chemotherapy.

Lauterbur and Sir Peter Mansfield were awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries concerning MRI.

Admiral Sir Francis Leopold McClintock or Francis Leopold M ' Clintock KCB, FRS ( 8 July 1819 – 17 November 1907 ) was an Irish explorer in the British Royal Navy who is known for his discoveries in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

In 2001 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Leland Hartwell and Sir Paul Nurse for their discoveries regarding cell cycle regulation by cyclin and cyclin-dependent kinases.

At the beginning of the 20th century European explorers such as Sven Hedin, Albert von Le Coq and Sir Aurel Stein all recounted their discoveries of desiccated bodies in their search for antiquities in Central Asia.

The discoveries of the archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos, Crete, around 1900 tended to confirm Kretschmer's views.

* Sir James W. Black, Visiting Professor, a Scottish doctor and pharmacologist who invented Propranolol, synthesized Cimetidine and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1988 for these discoveries.