List Of Famous Discoveries

Anthropology

• Historical relatedness of languages
• Extinct human ancestry
• Culture and tool use among Chimpanzees

Archeology

• Sutton Hoo
• Troy
• Viking settlement in Vinland
• Cache of royal correspondence at Amarna
• Indus Valley Civilization
• Mycenae
• Hittite civilization
• The Rosetta Stone
• Terracotta army at the tomb of Qin Shi Huang
• Ur
• Minoan civilization

Astronomy/Cosmology

• The discovery of the curvature of the Earth
• Heliocentrism (Earth and the planets revolves around the Sun)
• Moons around Jupiter
• Universe beyond our galaxy
• Expansion of the universe
• Cosmic microwave background radiation

Biology

• Circulation of blood through the body is driven by the pumping of the heart
• Former existence of extinct species
• Mendel's laws of genetics
• Discovery of evidence for evolution.
• Discovery of the structure and function of DNA

Chemistry

• Periodicity of the Elements

Geography/Geology

• Great age of the Earth
• Continental drift

Physics

• Gravity
• Electromagnetism
• Diffraction provides evidence for the wave theory of light
• Radioactivity
• Electron
• Photon
• The Michaelson-Morley experiment demonstrates that light is not carried by Aether
• The demonstration of time dilation as a real physical phenomenon

See also

• List of famous experiments
• Obsolete scientific theories.

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