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Sunday, December 16, 2007

Scientific Innovations

Logarithms: John Napier (1550-1617)

The decimal point: John Napier (1550-1617)

The reflecting telescope: James Gregory (1638-1675)

The concept of Latent Heat: Joseph Black (1728-1799)

The pyroscope, atmometer and
aethrioscope scientific instruments: Sir John Leslie (1766-1832)

Identifying the nucleus in living cells: Robert Browen (1773-1858)

Hypnosis: James Braid (1795-1860)

Colloid chemistry: Thomas Graham (1805-1869)

The Kelvin scale of temperature: William Thompson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907)

Devising the diagramatic system of representing
chemical bonds: Alexander Crum Brown (1838-1922)

Criminal fingerprinting: Henry Faulds (1843-1930)

The noble gases: Sir William Ramsay (1852-1916)

Pioneering work on nutrition and poverty: John Boyd Orr (1880-1971)

The ultrasound scanner: Ian Donald (1910-1987)

Ferrocene synthetic substances: Peter Ludwig Pauson in 1955

The MRI body scanner: John Mallard in 1980

The first cloned mammal: The Roslin Institute research centre in 1996

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