These must not be inventions, but a discovery. Please give a date, the name of the discovery and the discovering individual or group. Please back up your statement with an argument.
2007-09-17 06:37:02 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Basha C - that's an invention not a discovery.
2007-09-17 06:42:07 · update #1
Penicillin - discovered in 1928 but not put into wide use until the 1940's. Has saved millions of lives that would have been lost to simple infections.
2007-09-17 06:42:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Ants Travel In Groups
2007-09-17 14:13:16 · answer #2 · answered by Bobby Mac 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Define the difference between a discovery and an invention.
I would say practical solid state physics but that is invention of the transister and microcomputer.
2007-09-17 13:49:24 · answer #3 · answered by Mike1942f 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Lots of good possibilities above. I would also submit the figuring out of DNA and the subsequent mapping of the human genome. The future potential for contributions to health as a result are fantastic!
2007-09-17 14:06:13 · answer #4 · answered by aboukir200 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Penicillin
2007-09-17 13:49:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Discovery of penicillin by Sir Alexander Flemming in 1928 made it possible to cure many diseases that had long plagued man.
2007-09-17 13:46:15 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Quantum Theory by Dr. Max Planck.
2007-09-17 14:39:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
D.N.A. Over the next twenty years related research will put an end to many diseases and extend life spans by an unprecedented degree.
2007-09-17 14:13:51 · answer #8 · answered by Lew 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nuclear fission.
1939, Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann, Germany.
2007-09-17 13:42:02 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
That 9/11 wasn't an inside job, like Liberals who hate Bush keep spewing.
2007-09-17 13:53:11 · answer #10 · answered by xenypoo 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋