Rayleigh and Ramsay received the 1904 Nobel Prizes in Physics and in Chemistry, respectively, for their discovery of the noble gases ; in the words of J. E. Cederblom, then president of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, " the discovery of an entirely new group of elements, of which no single representative had been known with any certainty, is something utterly unique in the history of chemistry, being intrinsically an advance in science of peculiar significance ".

The " discovery " of Beowulf in a single manuscript, first transcribed in 1818, came under the impetus of Romantic nationalism, after the manuscript had lain as an ignored curiosity in scholars ' collections for two centuries.

Despite the fact that the ancient Jewish historian Josephus, as well as other sources, refers to the crucifixion of thousands of people by the Romans, there is only a single archaeological discovery of a crucified body dating back to the Roman Empire around the time of Jesus.

A new possibility for the inspiration of the unicorn came in 2008 with the discovery of a roe deer in Italy with a single horn.

By scanning the enormous content of the Internet, some computers " know " literally every single piece of public information ( every scientific discovery, every book and movie, every public statement, etc.

The single most important event in Luling's history was the discovery of oil by Edgar B. Davis.

It is rare for only a single Portuguese man o ' war to be found ; the discovery of one usually indicates the presence of many, as they are usually congregated by currents and winds into groups of thousands.

* A tongue-in-cheek French adventure comic series, Lanfeust of Troy, has also come up with a few characteristics similar to some from the World of Xanth, such as: humans possessing a single magical talents ranging from benign to powerful, jungle medieval / fantasy land with weird and extensive fauna, a young villager with an unknown-yet-powerful talent bound to become the hero, an arch-enemy wanting to conquer and rule the world, a quest for the source of magic ending up in the discovery of a fabulous creature, hero's love interest shifting from a beautiful and vain girl to a more complete type of women, humorous play on words on many names and titles, and so on.

A chance discovery in Moscow in 1777, recovered the two hymns that open the collection, the fragmentary To Dionysus and To Demeter ( complete save some lacunose lines ), in a single fifteenth century manuscript.

Originally interpreted as a member of Multituberculata, an extinct group of small, rodent-like mammals, on the basis of a single brachydont ( low-crowned ) molar, it was recognized as related to the hypsodont ( high-crowned ) Sudamericidae after the discovery of additional material in the early 1990s.

Series of articles were included focusing on the history and varied uses of specific products such as a single metal, gem, food crop, or agricultural product, or an archaeological discovery.

Ostrom's description of Deinonychus in 1969 has been described as the most important single discovery of dinosaur paleontology in the mid-20th century.

On December 23, 2003, Veneman announced the discovery of a single cow with Bovine spongiform encephalopathy ( BSE ), or mad cow disease, in Washington State.

During the fingerprint discovery process, not a single fingerprint was found in the room, none from Mr. and Mrs. Lindbergh, none from the baby, and none from Betty Gow.

Such parallelism can be especially advantageous for resource discovery in an ad-hoc Wireless network because a randomized skip list can be made robust to the loss of any single node.

Janov writes that his professional life changed in a single day in 1967 with the discovery of what he calls Primal Pain.

“ The method of a science is of greater significance by far than any single discovery, however amazing the later may be .” This was in direct contrast to the English traditional economist who believed that the principles of a science were only exposed long after they had performed their duties.

With the discovery of the special theory of relativity, the concepts of energy density, momentum density, and stress were unified into the concept of the stress-energy tensor, and energy and momentum were likewise unified into a single concept, the energy-momentum vector.

" He ends with the remark " the construction of an aerial vehicle ... which could carry even a single man from place-to-place at pleasure requires the discovery of some new metal or some new force.

" In early 2009, the Royal Society published an article detailing the discovery " that three families with greatly differing morphologies, Mirapinnidae ( tapetails ), Megalomycteridae ( bignose fishes ) and Cetomimidae ( whalefishes ), are larvae, males and females, respectively, of a single family Cetomimidae.

Since the 2001 discovery of a single individual in Burma, at least nine separate sites have been identified in the limestone outcrops of the Dawna and Karen Hills outside the Thanlwin, Ataran, and Gyaing Rivers of Kayin and Mon States.

While still a graduate student he discovered that single bonds in hydrocarbons do not rotate, an important discovery upsetting the conventional wisdom and affecting the thermodynamic properties of hydrocarbons.

* E. C. Stoner publishes a paper pointing out that for a given value of the principal quantum number ( n ), the number of energy levels of a single electron in the alkali metal spectra in an external magnetic field, where all degenerate energy levels are separated, is equal to the number of electrons in the closed shell of the rare gases for the same value of n. This leads to discovery of the Pauli exclusion principle.

The discovery of gold in Australia caused the establishment of relatively small Chinatowns in cities there, and similar migrations of Chinese resulted in tiny settlements termed " Chinatowns " being established in New Zealand and South Africa.

The emphasis laid upon landscape painting in the Song period was grounded in Chinese philosophy ; Taoism stressed that humans were but tiny specks amongst vast and greater cosmos, while Neo-Confucianist writers often pursued the discovery of patterns and principles that they believed caused all social and natural phenomena.

However, due to the relative rarity of that isotope, this process lasts only a tiny fraction of the star's lifetime, and hence most brown dwarfs would have ceased fusion long before their discovery.

The discovery of coal beneath the fields of East Durham during the 19th century, transformed the tiny hamlet of Morton into the thriving township of Murton.

His discovery that massive differences in forecast could derive from tiny differences in initial data led to him coining the terms strange attractor and butterfly effect, core concepts in chaos theory.

Powell has already established opportunity, and eventually method through discovery of a tiny fragment of gelatin in the body.

James Mielke of 1UP. com similarly enjoyed the " near-constant sense of discovery " and the tiny details included by Skip with earning Happy Points and Moolah.

The ascription to Albinoni rests upon Giazotto's purported discovery of a tiny manuscript fragment ( consisting of a few opening measures of the melody line and basso continuo portion ) from a slow second movement of an otherwise unknown Albinoni trio sonata.

When this discovery was followed up in 1870, on the neighbouring Santorin ( Thera ), by representatives of the French School at Athens, much pottery of a class now known immediately to precede the typical late Aegean ware, and many stone and metal objects, were found.

While it has been known since Jane Goodall's 1960s discovery that modern chimpanzees use tools, research published in 2007 indicates that chimpanzee stone tool use dates to at least 4, 300 years ago.

Evidence of the early human occupation of Algeria is demonstrated by the discovery of 1. 8 million year old Oldowan stone tools found at Ain Hanech in 1992.

The discovery was reported in Courrier de l ' Égypte, the official newspaper of the French expedition, in September: the anonymous reporter expressed a hope that the stone might one day be the key to deciphering hieroglyphs.

He also noticed that these characters resembled the equivalent ones in the Demotic script, and went on to note as many as 80 similarities between the hieroglyphic and demotic texts on the stone, an important discovery because the two scripts were previously thought to be entirely different from one another.

However, the presence of man in the Lower Paleolithic is attested by the discovery of stone tools characteristic of Acheulean such as hand axes reported by Théodore Monod at the tip of Fann in the peninsula of Cap-Vert in 1938, or cleavers found in the south-east .< ref > Abdoulaye Camara et Bertrand Duboscq, La préhistoire dans le Sud-Est du Sénégal, Actes du 2 < sup > e </ sup > Colloque de Kédougou, 18 – 22 fév.

On 18 December 2011, geologists from University of Leicester and the National Museum of Wales announced the discovery of the exact source of the rock used to create Stonehenge's first stone circle.

After the discovery and excavation of these monuments and associated stone slabs by Russian archaeologists in the wider area surrounding the Orkhon Valley between 1889 and 1893, it became established that the language on the inscriptions was the Old Turkic language written using the Orkhon script, which has also been referred to as " Turkic runes " or " runiform " due to a superficial similarity to the Germanic runic alphabets.

The memorial stone, now moved inside the church, has foxgloves and Witheringia solanaceae ( see below ) carved upon it to commemorate his discovery and his wider contribution to botany.

The name Ukon vaaja was also used of Neolithic stone tools, which were often taken into use as magical objects for use in ritual upon discovery.

When this discovery was followed up in 1870, on the neighbouring Santorini ( Thera ), by representatives of the French School at Athens, much pottery of a class now known immediately to precede the typical late Aegean ware, and many stone and metal objects, were found.

An archaeological discovery in 2010 in Blombos Cave, South Africa, places the use of pressure flaking by early humans to make stone tools back to 73, 000 BCE, 55, 000 years earlier than previously accepted.

Petrospheres or " stone balls " have been found in souterrains and, as possible symbols of power within prehistoric society, this discovery suggest a use other than basic storage of food and resources.

In August 2012 archaeologists from Tel Aviv University announced the discovery of a circular stone seal approximately 15 millimetres in diameter.

Written in the first person, it depicts an experiment which, for a moment, seems to be the discovery of the philosophers ' stone.

Historically the discovery of empirical relationships has been important as a stepping stone to the discovery of theoretical relationships.

The largest polished gem from the stone is named Cullinan I or the Great Star of Africa, and at was the largest polished diamond in the world until the 1985 discovery of the Golden Jubilee Diamond,, also from the Premier Mine.

The Twentieth was among the legions involved with the construction of Hadrian's Wall, and the discovery of stone altars commemorating their work in Caledonia suggests that they had some role in building the Antonine Wall.

Excavation by Lao and Japanese archaeologists in the intervening years has supported this interpretation with the discovery of human remains, burial goods and ceramics around the stone jars.

Keynsham Clock TowerEvidence of occupation dates back to prehistoric times, and the town site is scattered with Roman remains, such as the Roman villas at Somerdale which were discovered during the construction of the factory in 1922, and included the discovery of two stone coffins, a villa with nine intact panels of mosaic flooring at Durley Hill and a burial site between Keynsham and Saltford.

The 1880s date of discovery is important to those who believe that the stone was inscribed by a lost tribe of Israel.

This is evidenced from the discovery of several stone inscriptions in Old Malay, notably the Kedukan Bukit Inscription and Talang Tuwo inscription.

Tony Keulemans later wrote Beyond the grave, which tells the story of a remarkable discovery of a painting John Gerrard had made of his own grave stone.