Following his discovery of Pluto, Tombaugh earned bachelor's and master's degrees in astronomy from the University of Kansas in 1936 and 1938.

The CMB's serendipitous discovery in 1964 by American radio astronomers Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson was the culmination of work initiated in the 1940s, and earned them the 1978 Nobel Prize.

This discovery led to the quantum revolution in physics and earned Einstein the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921.

Barbara McClintock's discovery of these jumping genes early in her career earned her a Nobel prize in 1983.

During experiments in which the complex was reconstituted in test tubes, Altman and his group discovered that the RNA component, in isolation, was sufficient for the observed catalytic activity of the enzyme, indicating that the RNA itself had catalytic properties, which was the discovery that earned him the Nobel prize.

Compton earned the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery.

* Photos and details of the discovery of the site where York earned the Medal of Honor, Discovered 21 October 2006 by the Sergeant York Discovery Expedition.

Magnetic Springs earned its name after the discovery of mineral waters used for healing processes.

Recent notable additions include riboswitches and miRNA, the discovery of the RNAi mechanism associated with the latter earned Craig C. Mello and Andrew Fire the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

In honour of Che-wech-i-kan's discovery, he earned the name Coal Tyee, meaning Great Coal Chief and McKay Point was named for Joseph McKay because of all the work he did for the island.

He earned worldwide fame for his discovery of Pithecanthropus erectus ( later redesignated Homo erectus ), or ' Java Man '.

Chivington earned high praise for his decisive stroke at Johnson's Ranch, even though his discovery of the Confederate supply train was accidental.

This discovery earned the duo the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics.

This discovery earned Kirkwood an international reputation among astronomers ; he was dubbed " the American Kepler " by Sears Cook Walker, who claimed that Kirkwood's Law proved the widely held Solar Nebula Theory.

This discovery earned him the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1927.

After impressing during pre-season, Boswell was signed by D. C. United as a discovery player and earned a starting spot in the club's defense after Bryan Namoff had to miss the beginning of the season due to injury.

Her performance earned rave reviews from the New York Times, Time Out New York and Variety, which wrote: " Mosley's voice is a serious discovery, with remarkable phrasing and range.

Their discovery of the system and analysis of it earned them the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics " for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation.

The valuable discovery, which could be dated back to more than 6, 400 years ago, had pushed forward the history of Chinese civilization for over 1, 400 years, and therefore earned itself an international reputation of “ the First Dragon of China ”.

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

and General Motors and Du Pont were to be ordered to terminate any agreement that provided for the purchase by General Motors of any specified percentage of its requirements of any Du Pont manufactured product, or for the grant of exclusive patent rights, or for a grant by General Motors to Du Pont of a preferential right to make or sell any chemical discovery of General Motors, or for the maintenance of any joint commercial enterprise by the two companies.

To find a place for them in their theory of knowledge would require them to revise the theory radically, and yet that theory was what they regarded as their most important discovery.

A year and a day of this idyll is described for the reader, one in which not only discovery of a new world of personality is charted, but self-discovery as well.

Mrs. Monmouth thought of him as her discovery, and she paid two to three hundred dollars for a painting.

It required a repudiation of some Aristotelian principles for the sciences and the arts to free themselves for the discovery of modern scientific laws and empirical methods.

J. J. Thomson created a technique for separating atom types through his work on ionized gases, which subsequently led to the discovery of stable isotopes.

The explanation for these different isotopes awaited the discovery of the neutron, a neutral-charged particle with a mass similar to the proton, by the physicist James Chadwick in 1932.

Shortly after Thomson's discovery, Hantaro Nagaoka, a Japanese physicist, predicted a different model for electronic structure.

" Eleanor Audeley ", wife of Sir John Davies, is said to have been brought before the High Commission in 1634 for extravagances, stimulated by the discovery that her name could be transposed to " Reveale, O Daniel ", and to have been laughed out of court by another anagram submitted by Sir John Lambe, the dean of the Arches, " Dame Eleanor Davies ", " Never soe mad a ladie ".

Since the first discovery in 1884, fossils of more than thirty individuals have been recovered, providing scientists with a more detailed knowledge of Albertosaurus anatomy than is available for most other tyrannosaurids.

The discovery of such a powerful antibiotic was unprecedented, and the development of penicillin led to renewed interest in the search for antibiotic compounds with similar efficacy and safety.

Florey credited Dubos with pioneering the approach of deliberately and systematically searching for antibacterial compounds, which had led to the discovery of gramicidin and had revived Florey's research in penicillin.

Bohr, Mottelson and Rainwater were jointly awarded the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physics " for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection ".

Since the later discovery of the electron, an easier to remember, and more durably correct technically although historically false, etymology has been suggested: anode, from the Greek anodos, ' way up ', ' the way ( up ) out of the cell ( or other device ) for electrons '.

Work in automated discovery of shortest axiomatic bases for logic systems.

* Dolph Ulrich Purdue, Work on automated discovery of shortest axiomatic bases for systems.

The discovery on the island of a number of gold ornaments belonging to the last period of Mycenaean art suggests that Mycenaean culture held its own in Aegina for some generations after the Dorian conquest of Argos and Lacedaemon.

Aberration should not be confused with stellar parallax, although it was an initially fruitless search for parallax that first led to its discovery.

At the time, there were media reports about the discovery of two bombs, one at Manila airport and another at the venue for the leaders ' meeting ".

Kearton and Ulyate had started the day together while Jones followed the dogs, and Means and Loveless had taken another route, and now, with the discovery of the fresh trail still unknown to him, Ulyate reined in, in the shadow of the Reef and pointed.

He obtained enough to enable him to forecast the discovery of written characters, till then not suspected in Aegean civilization.

Tombaugh continued searching for some years after the discovery of Pluto, and the lack of further discoveries left him satisfied that no other object of a comparable apparent magnitude existed near the ecliptic.

Hume made a philosophical discovery that opened up to him "... a new Scene of Thought ," which inspired him "... to throw up every other Pleasure or Business to apply entirely to it.

Around this time, the news of the discovery of the New World had reached him, and he decided to enroll himself in the armada of Pedrarias Dávila.

Exploitation of this discovery enabled him to invent the first electrical generator in 1831, in which he converted the mechanical energy of a rotating copper disc to electrical energy.

MacNeill was briefly convinced to go along with some sort of action when Mac Diarmada revealed to him that a shipment of German arms was about to land in County Kerry, planned by the IRB in conjunction with Roger Casement ; he was certain that the authorities ' discovery of such a shipment would inevitably lead to suppression of the Volunteers, thus the Volunteers were justified in taking defensive action ( including the originally planned manoeuvres ).

It is something of a mystery why popular belief should have firmly credited him with a discovery which in fact was made by others.

Section 1 of the French law of 1791 stated, " All new discoveries are the property of the author ; to assure the inventor the property and temporary enjoyment of his discovery, there shall be delivered to him a patent for five, ten or fifteen years.

His five seasons in Newfoundland produced the first large-scale and accurate maps of the island's coasts ; they also gave Cook his mastery of practical surveying, achieved under often adverse conditions, and brought him to the attention of the Admiralty and Royal Society at a crucial moment both in his career and in the direction of British overseas discovery.

Jean's discovery of the psychic affair results in a confrontation between her and Emma, though ultimately Jean realizes that her marriage to Scott has run its course and that Emma truly loves him.

Euler later suffered a cataract in his good left eye, rendering him almost totally blind a few weeks after its discovery in 1766.

When Trotsky arrived in New York in January 1917, Bukharin was the first to greet him ( as Trotsky's wife recalled, " with a bear hug and immediately began to tell them about a public library which stayed open late at night and which he proposed to show us at once " dragging the tired Trotskys across town " to admire his great discovery ").

The discovery of Owain's Great Seal and his letters to the French in the Bibliothèque Nationale helped revise historical images of him as a purely local leader.

Paul Auster, for example, has translated Surrealist poetry and said the Surrealists were " a real discovery " for him.

Fleeing from those who sought to steal this discovery, Plunder took his eldest son Kevin with him for a second trip into the Savage Land.

This resulted in the discovery of an inner ear infection that disqualified him from flight status.

The traditional view, since the discovery of the portfolio in the mid-19th century, is that Villard was an itinerant architect / mason / builder, but there is no evidence of him ever working as an architect or in any other identifiable profession.

Dr. Reed often cited Finlay's papers in his own articles and gave him credit for the discovery in his personal correspondence.

His discovery was significant because it led to the invitation for him to tell his story as a Barbary captive, which later was published as The Narrative of Robert Adams.

But by the help of a learned Jew in Lincoln he found out the true nature of the discovery which had dawned on him.

Although Dirac did not at first fully appreciate what his own equation was telling him, his resolute faith in the logic of mathematics as a means to physical reasoning, his explanation of spin as a consequence of the union of quantum mechanics and relativity, and the eventual discovery of the positron, represents one of the great triumphs of theoretical physics, fully on a par with the work of Newton, Maxwell, and Einstein before him.