In 1821, while working in the village of Les Baux-de-Provence, in southern France, he discovered the mineral bauxite, named for the place of its discovery.

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.

Significant results were produced by Croatian mathematician Danilo Blanuša, who discovered two snarks in the 1940s, now known as Blanuša snarks ; prior to Blanuša's discovery, the only known snark was the Petersen graph ( Weisstein ).

The final discovery was by Claude Shannon in the 1940s who recognized and proved the theoretical significance of the one-time pad system.

Philosophers of science began to pay increasing attention to developments in biology, from the rise of the Modern synthesis in the 1930s and 1940s to the discovery of the structure of Deoxyribonucleic acid ( DNA ) in 1953 to more recent advances in genetic engineering.

Although X-rays have been observed emanating from the Sun since the 1940s, the discovery in 1962 of the first cosmic X-ray source was a surprise.

Before the discovery of tetracycline and chloramphenicol during the latter 1940s, as many as 30 percent of persons infected with R. rickettsii died.

The City of Alice was known for its large cattle industry until the discovery of oil and petroleum beneath Alice in the 1940s which caused a slight population boom.

During the Great Depression the population declined as the price of oil fell, and as workers moved away to work in newly-discovered fields in East Texas and elsewhere ; however, a secondary boom occurred in the 1940s with the discovery of the nearby Benedum Oil Field.

Highway improvement, the Magnolia Pipeline Company gas line, and the establishment of a railroad terminal caused growth during the 1920s, and the discovery of oil in parts of Wood County and construction of a T & P railroad shop spurred the economy during the 1940s.

Carrier Arboretum is located at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, U. S .. Groundbreaking took place in April 1985 under direction of Dr. Norlyn Bodkin who is credited the first scientific botanical discovery along the Eastern Seaboard of Virginia since the 1940s, Trillium: Shenandoah Wake Robin, presently found at the arboretum.

With the discovery of oil in the area came roads that were built and improved from the 1920s to the 1940s.

The discovery of new oil fields to the south, west and north of Dammam in the 1940s and 1950s, which now account for a quarter of the world's proven oil reserves, triggered a building boom.

In the 1940s, with the discovery of a clay that required a lower firing temperature, the pottery began producing flower pots.

Her feminist version of witchcraft followed a few decades after the founding ( or discovery ) of Wicca by Gerald Gardner in the 1940s.

In the 1930s, the " Latin invasion " that had begun with the tango took off again when American jazz, dance music, and popular song were revolutionized by the " discovery " of other music forms of the Caribbean, Central and South America, a process that was triggered by a significant influx of migrants to the United States from Cuba, Puerto Rico and other Caribbean islands in the 1940s.

Philosophers of science then began paying increasing attention to biology, from the rise of Neodarwinism in the 1930s and 1940s to the discovery of the structure of DNA in 1953 to more recent advances in genetic engineering.

Groundbreaking for the arboretum took place April, 1985, under direction of Dr. Norlyn Bodkin, who is credited the first scientific botanical discovery along the Eastern Seaboard of Virginia since the 1940s, Trillium: Shenandoah Wake Robin, presently found at the arboretum.

The Spanish Empire claimed the islands by discovery in the early 16th century, but never settled them, and subsequent years saw the English, Dutch, French, Spanish, and Danish all jostling for control of the region, which became a notorious haunt for pirates.

The Connor family were central to many storylines during 2007 — the accidental death of a Polish worker at Underworld due to overworking, Michelle's discovery that her brothers Paul and Liam were the cause of her husband's death, Paul's use of an escort service, his kidnapping of Leanne and his subsequent death.

The first published discovery to receive subsequent confirmation was made in 1988 by the Canadian astronomers Bruce Campbell, G. A. H. Walker, and Stephenson Yang.

Matilda ’ s discovery of the Countess and her subsequent informing others of the Countess's presence destroys the Count's secret.

Greater freedom for Roman Catholics to worship as they chose seemed unlikely in 1604, but the discovery of such a wide-ranging conspiracy, the capture of those involved, and the subsequent trials, led Parliament to consider introducing new anti-Catholic legislation.

His time in the institution and subsequent discovery of his Tree represent purgatory and heaven.

Leeuwenhoek's discovery, along with subsequent observations by Spallanzani and Pasteur, ended the long-held belief that life spontaneously appeared from non-living substances during the process of spoilage.

PDE10A is almost exclusively expressed in the striatum and subsequent increase in cAMP and cGMP after PDE10A inhibition ( e. g. by papaverine ) is " a novel therapeutic avenue in the discovery of antipsychotics ".

For the first isolation of a restriction enzyme, HindII, in 1970, and the subsequent discovery and characterization of numerous restriction endonucleases, the 1978 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Daniel Nathans, Werner Arber, and Hamilton O. Smith.

Unlike the Rosetta Stone, their hieroglyphic inscriptions were relatively intact, and though the inscriptions on the Rosetta Stone had been deciphered long before the discovery of the other copies of the decree, subsequent Egyptologists including Wallis Budge used these other inscriptions to further refine the actual hieroglyphs that must have been used in the lost portions of the hieroglyphic register on the Rosetta Stone.

However, the subsequent discovery of the Kuiper belt, and in particular of the object, which is larger than Pluto yet does not fit Bode's law, have further discredited the formula.

Lassell did not name his own discovery, although he suggested names a few years after his subsequent discovery of an eighth moon of Saturn ( Hyperion ).

The novel features scenes and events including the discovery of a near-dead alien in the desert, who clearly says in English, " I'm sorry, but there is bad news ," and this alien's subsequent interrogation and autopsy ; the discovery of an artificial geological formation and its subsequent nuclear destruction by a desperate military ; and the Earth's eventual destruction by the mutual annihilation of a piece of neutronium and a piece of antineutronium dropped into Earth's core.

Bell's theorem was inspired by Bell's discovery of the work of David Bohm and his subsequent wondering if the obvious non-locality of the theory could be eliminated.

The discovery of the gene for Canavan disease, and subsequent events, generated considerable controversy.

A series of experiments conducted between 1850 and 1870 by the German researchers Rudolf Virchow, Rudolf Leuckart and Friedrich Albert von Zenker, which involved feeding infected meat to a dog and performing the subsequent necropsy, led to the discovery of the life cycle of Trichinella.

These activities came to light when the discovery process of the subsequent lawsuit uncovered emails from senior Microsoft executives that showed this time bomb plant was part of a concerted program to drive DRI out of the PC operating systems business.

The subsequent discovery of natural gas on West 3rd Street in 1888 boosted the town ’ s growth even further as several additional industries chose to locate there.

In 1686, the discovery of limestone in nearby Oreland drew settlers to Whitemarsh, as did subsequent discoveries of Limestone in the township.

This heritage tourism event celebrates the discovery of gold by the Custer expedition in nearby French Creek and the subsequent founding of the town.

President Grant sponsored two federally funded scientific discovery projects ; the Polaris Expedition, America's first large scale attempt to reach the North Pole, and the Hayden Geological Survey into the Yellowstone, that led to the establishment of Yellowstone National Park.

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.

With the advent of Z39. 50: 1992, the termination of support for the free WAIS from Thinking Machines and the establishment of WAIS Inc as a commercial venture, the U. S. National Science Foundation funded CNIDR to create a clearinghouse of information related to Internet search and discovery systems and to promote open source and standards.

His major scientific achievements were the establishment of the physics of vacuums, the discovery of an experimental method for clearly demonstrating electrostatic repulsion, and his advocacy of the reality of " action at a distance " and of " absolute space ".

The Piltdown man hoax succeeded so well because, at the time of its discovery, the scientific establishment believed that the large modern brain preceded the modern omnivorous diet, and the forgery provided exactly that evidence.

The discovery of copper and tin led to the establishment of several small scale subsistence mining operations.

The first development in the Eastborough area began in 1929, but the discovery of oil in the area postponed its establishment until the middle of the 1930s.

After the Spindletop gusher discovery of 1901 and the establishment of the Sun Oil terminal near Nederland, the town became a residential community for the workers of the nearby oil terminals.

With the establishment of new trade routes following the discovery of the New World ( 16th century ) and the outbreak and consequences of the Thirty Years ' War ( 1618 – 48 ), the city began to decline gradually.

Records of the discovery of arms caches in the monasteries of Chang ' an during government raids in AD 446 suggests that Chinese monks practiced martial arts prior to the establishment of the Shaolin Monastery in 497.

The oil discovery led to petrochemical industry development and also the establishment of industries that strongly depended on oil.

# The discovery of GRB 050709, which was the first short / hard GRB to be found with an optical counterpart, leading to a firm establishment of the cosmological origin of this subclass of GRBs.

Hempel would try to negate the fear generated within the Irish political establishment by the discovery of Plan Kathleen.

Mayer was aware of the importance of his discovery, but his inability to express himself scientifically led to degrading speculation and resistance from the scientific establishment.

" I recall the early scepticism with which this discovery was received by the astronomers of the ' establishment ' when I first gave an account of ( Hambardzumyan's ) paper at the colloquium at the Yerkes Observatory in late 1950.

Bircotes was founded in the 1920s, with the discovery of coal during the First World War and the establishment of Harworth Colliery, to provide homes for miners.

Anton Chekhov, visiting the town on his journey to Sakhalin in 1890, noted its rapid depopulation, although this trend was slowed somewhat in the late 1890s by the discovery of gold and establishment of salmon fisheries.

The discovery of gold deposits on the Middle Fork in 1893 led to a gold rush in 1898 with the establishment of trading posts and mining camps, including Bettles, on the upper river.

* Algebra and Trigonometry: Numerous Iranians were directly responsible for the establishment of Algebra, the advancement of Medicine and Chemistry, and the discovery of Trigonometry.

Ludwig Leichhardt was the first European to pass through the Clermont area in 1845, but it was the discovery of gold in 1861 that was responsible for the establishment of the town.

Even though his discovery caused an enthusiastic stir in the press, it was not widely accepted by his senior colleagues, including both Mechnikov and Pasteur, nor by European official medical establishment in France, Germany and Russia.

However, in recent years, after the discovery of oil and establishment of Jubail Industrial City, most of Qatifi's people are working in oil, industry, public services, education and health care sectors.

This discovery led to a geological examination of the area by a government geologist and the establishment of underground workings.