Five greatest achievements of 20^th -21^st century science?

1. Photoelectric effect, special and general relativity

2. Red Shift – an expanding universe

3. Cyclotron – Large hadron collider in CERN

4. Genetic code – DNA/RNA–Human Genome Project

5. Space – Apollo moon landing – Mar’s rover – Hubble telescope

People associated with

1 Einstein & Bohr

2 Hubble

3 Lawrence & Fermi

4 Watson & Crick

19^th century

Thermodynamics

Natural Selection

Electromagnetic Spectrum --X-rays – radio --radiation

Periodic table of atomic element

Electron detected

18^th

binomial classification of plants & animals (Linnaeus)

geological time-scale

transit of Venus (Captain Cook)

Uranus observed (Herschel & Herschel)

Optics (Newton)

17^th

Telescope (Ganileo, Newton & Hooke)

Microscope (Hooke and Van Leywenhoek)

Calculus (Newton & Leibniz)

Gravitational attraction ( Newton

Planetary motion (Kepler’s three laws)

16^th

Analytical geometry ( Oresme before Descartes )

Circumnavigation 1521-23 (Magellan & de Cano)

Heliocentric universe (Copernicus)

Latitude and longitude

Pocket watch in Germany

15^th

perspective (Alberti & Brunelleschi) principles of in art

Chinese (Ming) accurately calculated solar year = 365.25 days

Printing press: (Books & Bibles) printing with movable type

Compass & Algebra (from China and Turkestan)

Hindu & Arabic numerals applied to Euclid’s geometry & trigonometry (Puerbach)