The existence of the electroweak interactions was experimentally established in two stages, the first being the discovery of neutral currents in neutrino scattering by the Gargamelle collaboration in 1973, and the second in 1983 by the UA1 and the UA2 collaborations that involved the discovery of the W and Z gauge bosons in proton – antiproton collisions at the converted Super Proton Synchrotron.

* In his short story The Harbor Master, by Robert W. Chambers, the discovery and attempted recovery of the last known pair of Great Auks is central to the plot ( which also involves a proto-Lovecraftian element of suspense ).

Johann August Sutter ( February 15, 1803 – June 18, 1880 ) was a Swiss pioneer of California known for his association with the California Gold Rush by the discovery of gold by James W. Marshall and the mill making team at Sutter's Mill, and for establishing Sutter's Fort in the area that would eventually become Sacramento, the state's capital.

Among those drilling at Spindletop was W. Scott Heywood, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, who in 1901 made the first oil discovery in nearby Jeff Davis Parish in southwestern Louisiana.

Total Solar Irradiance upon Earth ( TSI ) was earlier measured by satellite to be roughly 1. 366 kilowatts per square meter ( kW / m² ), but most recently NASA cites TSI as " 1361 W / m² as compared to ~ 1366 W / m² from earlier observations et al., 2005 ", based on regular readings from NASA's Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment ( SORCE ) satellite, active since 2003, noting that this " discovery is critical in examining the energy budget of the planet Earth and isolating the climate change due to human activities.

Carlo Rubbia Knight Grand Cross ( born on 31 March 1934 ) is an Italian particle physicist and inventor who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 with Simon van der Meer for work leading to the discovery of the W and Z particles at CERN.

In 1984 Carlo Rubbia and Simon van der Meer were awarded the Nobel Prize " for their decisive contributions to the large project, which led to the discovery of the field particles W and Z, communicators of weak interaction "

There were 2 teams at CERN that were working simultaneously on the discovery of the W boson and Z boson, the another team at CERN known as UA2 had also detected the W boson at the same time and the Z boson three weeks prior to UA1 team.

In commemoration of Orcutt ’ s initial discovery, paleontologists named the La Brea Coyote in W. W. Orcutt ’ s honor, Canis Orcutti.

* James W. Marshall ( 1810 – 85 ), sawmill operator, whose 1848 discovery of gold in the American River in California set the stage for the California Gold Rush.

Mike Johnson, a petroleum geologist in Denver, Colorado, is recognized as responsible for the discovery ( Johnson, M. S., 2011, Discovery of Parshall Field, North Dakota, in, The Bakken – Three Forks Petroleum System in the Williston Basin, edited by John W. Robinson, Julie A. LeFever, Stephanie B. Gaswirth, Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists ( www. rmag. org ).

" An editor's enthusiasm is soon chilled by the discovery that Isidore's book is really a mosaic of pieces borrowed from previous writers, sacred and profane, often their ' ipsa verba ' without alteration ," W. M. Lindsay noted in 1911, having recently edited Isidore for the Clarendon Press, with the further observation, however, that a portion of the texts quoted have otherwise been lost: the Prata of Suetonius can only be reconstructed from Isidore's excerpts.

On June 11 of that year police were called to J. W. Parker's coal yard in Todmorden after the discovery of a body, subsequently identified as 56-year-old Zigmund Adamski from Tingley, near Wakefield.

Notable discoveries made by bubble chamber include the discovery of weak neutral currents at Gargamelle in 1973, which establish the soundness of the electroweak theory and paved the way to the discovery of the W and Z bosons in 1983 ( at the UA1 and UA2 experiments ).

* R. W. Wood Prize, recognizes an outstanding discovery, scientific or technological achievement or invention.

The term was popularized in the 1960s by Dr. David W. Smith of the University of Washington Medical School, one of the researchers who became known in 1973 for the discovery of Fetal alcohol syndrome.

The discovery of the long-term deterioration in the terms of trade for underdeveloped countries must be attributed to Hans W. Singer.

The true reason, however, appears to have been the new government's discovery that in 1932, O ' Duffy's was one of the voices urging W. T. Cosgrave to resort to a military coup rather than to turn over power to the incoming Fianna Fáil administration.

Together with Jack W. Szostak, Greider and Blackburn were awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery.

In commemoration of Orcutt's initial discovery, paleontologists named the La Brea coyote ( Canis orcutti ) in W. W. Orcutt's honor.

* House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski is a work of fiction revolving around the discovery of a manuscript critiquing a documentary called The Navidson Record and its effects on both its author and editor.

In 1992, the IUPAC-IUPAP Transfermium Working Group ( TWG ) assessed the claims of discovery and concluded that only the Dubna work from 1966 correctly detected and assigned decays to Z = 102 nuclei at the time.

The discovery of the W and Z bosons themselves had to wait for the construction of a particle accelerator powerful enough to produce them.

Delays in the project led to competitive evaluation against a proposal for a much larger machine, eventually called the Superconducting Supercollider, a proton-proton system aimed at 20, 000 + 20, 000 GeV ; while developments in Europe at CERN, including discovery of the W and Z bosons, appeared to make ISABELLE redundant.

He was the driving force in the discovery of the cold heavy ion fusion and the discovery of the elements bohrium ( Bh Z = 107 ), hassium ( Hs Z = 108 ), meitnerium ( Mt Z = 109 ), darmstadtium ( Ds Z = 110 ), roentgenium ( Rg Z = 111 ) and copernicium ( foermerly eka-mercury or ununbium ) ( Uub Z = 112 ).

The discovery of the weak gauge bosons through the 1980s, and the verification of their properties through the 1990s is considered to be an age of consolidation in particle physics.

The W and Z bosons had been theoretically predicted some years earlier, and their experimental discovery was considered a significant success for CERN.

The discovery of the W and Z bosons by this experiment and the UA2 experiment in 1983 led to the Nobel Prize for physics being awarded to Carlo Rubbia and Simon van der Meer in 1984.

From 1981 to 1984, the SPS operated as a hadron ( more precisely, proton – antiproton ) collider ( as such it was called SpS ), when its beams provided the data for the UA1 and UA2 experiments, which resulted in the discovery of the W and Z bosons.

* 1983: The discovery of W and Z bosons in the UA1 and UA2 experiments.

* Pais, Abraham ; Inward Bound-Of Matter & Forces in the Physical World, Oxford University Press ( 1986 ) 0-19-851997-4 Written by a former Einstein assistant at Princeton, this is a beautiful detailed history of modern fundamental physics, from 1895 ( discovery of X-rays ) to 1983 ( discovery of vectors bosons at C. E. R. N.

Henrietta's feeling of identity with Sara Sullam was crowned by her discovery of the coincidence that Sara's epitaph in the Jewish cemetery in Venice referred to her as `` the Sulamite ''.

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.

Just as I was about to enlarge upon my discovery of the underside of the leaf of love, memory, displeased at being asked to yield its unsavory secrets, dashed ahead of me, calling back over its shoulder: `` Skip it.

This complacency was blown to bits by the relativity of Einstein, the revelation of the complex anatomy of the atom and the discovery of the expanding universe.

He was stirred by the announcement of Volta's discovery of chemical electricity and he immediately applied the voltaic pile to experiments with acids and alkalis.

Esmarch was among those who witnessed Oersted's first demonstration of his discovery.

In this connection, it might be noted that the theory of games was a mathematical discovery long before its uses in political science were exploited.

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.

And an additional factor was helping to make women more sexually self-assertive -- the comparatively recent discovery of the true depths of female desire and response.

His chief discovery was important -- the Great North ( later, the Hudson ) River -- but it produced no northwest passage.

The discovery during the Second World War that guar gum was similar to imported locust gum increased its cultivation in western Asia and initiated it in the United States.

The discovery that movies are a form of fiction was made in the early years of this century and it was made chiefly by two men, a French magician, Georges Melies, and an American employee of Edison, Edwin S. Porter.

This discovery of Melies was vastly more important than his sometimes dazzling, magician's tricks produced on film.

This reviewer read the book when it was first brought out in England with a sense of discovery and excitement.

The Norse discovery was documented in the 13th century Icelandic Sagas and was corroborated by recent L ' Anse aux Meadows archeological evidence.

An early pioneer of radio astronomy was Grote Reber, an amateur astronomer who constructed the first purpose built radio telescope in the late 1930s to follow up on the discovery of radio wavelength emissions from space by Karl Jansky.

The discovery was kept secret and only released to the public in November 1945.

The discovery of americium and curium in 1944 was closely related to the Manhattan Project ; the results were confidential and declassified only in 1945.

Thomson theorized that multiple electrons revolved in orbit-like rings within a positively charged jelly-like substance, and between the electron's discovery and 1909, this " plum pudding model " was the most widely accepted explanation of atomic structure.

In the end, this was solved by the discovery of modern quantum mechanics and the Pauli Exclusion Principle.

The discovery of CP violation helped to shed light on this problem by showing that this symmetry, originally thought to be perfect, was only approximate.

The discovery was made public at a recent meeting of the Brazilian Geophysical Society in Rio de Janeiro.

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.