ARPANET was an early packet-switching network and the first network to implement the protocol suite TCP/IP. Both technologies became the technical foundation of the Internet.
ARPANET is first deployed via UCLA, SRI, UCSB, and The University of Utah Read more
The team that achieved it was led by a British scientist named James Tuck. After the success of Scylla-1, Los Alamos went on to build multiple pinch machines over the next few years.
Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, scientists in several countries conducted extensive research into experimental chemotherapeutic, and psychotherapeutic uses of psychedelic drugs.
Abram Hoffer, Humphrey Osmond, and others pioneer the field of psychedlic therapy Read more
Streptomycin is now on the World Health Organization’s List of Essential Medicines. The World Health Organization classifies it as critically important for human medicine.
In collaboration with a thoracic surgeon, Gustaf Lindskog, they injected the chemical mustine into a patient with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The patient, a Polish immigrant to Connecticut known in literature only as JD, received his first injections on August 27, 1942 at 10 a.m. The doctors observed a dramatic reduction in the patient’s tumor masses.
Florey’s discoveries, along with the discoveries of Alexander Fleming and Ernst Chain, are estimated to have saved over 200 million lives, and he is consequently regarded by the Australian scientific and medical community as one of its greatest figures.
Howard Florey conducts the first-ever clinical trials of penicillin Read more
Within a year, people suffering from diabetes were being treated with insulin for a disease that had been considered fatal.
Frederick Banting and Charles Best successfully isolate insulin for the first time Read more
At that time, the source of stellar energy was a complete mystery; Eddington correctly speculated that the source was fusion of hydrogen into helium, liberating enormous energy according to Einstein’s equation E = mc2.
Frank Shuman was an American inventor, engineer, and solar energy pioneer known for his work on solar engines. Shuman built the world’s first solar thermal power station in Maadi, Egypt in 1913, using used semi circle shaped troughs to power a 60-70 horsepower engine that pumped 6,000 gallons of water per minute from the Nile River to adjacent cotton fields.
Frank Shuman builds the world’s first solar thermal power plant in Egypt Read more
Baldwin went on to pursue her career in academia and science by teaching at the California School of Mechanical Arts, a vocational school in San Francisco where she founded the Physics Department.
Caroline Willard Baldwin becomes the first American woman to receive a PhD in science Read more
