Scientific discoveries: where and when -- Seeing the invisible : Antonie van Leeuwenhoek -- A cure for a killer disease : Louis Pasteur -- Discovering penicillin : Alexander Fleming -- The fight against disease : Gertrude Elion -- Mapping the body : William Harvey -- The secret of life : Francis Crick and James Watson -- Laws of the universe : Isaac Newton -- Experiments in space and time : Albert Einstein -- Investigating radioactivity : Marie Curie -- The periodic table : Dmitri Mendeleev -- The power of electricity : Michael Faraday -- Naming the natural world : Carl Linnaeus -- The theory of evolution : Charles Darwin -- Unmasking dinosaurs : Richard Owen -- Drifting continents : Alfred Wegener -- Defining our solar system : Nicolaus Copernicus -- Looking into space : Galileo Galilei -- Discovering galaxies : Edwin Hubble -- The big bang : Georges Lemaître -- Glossary.
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