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From approximately 1850 to the present a series of breakthroughs in the fields of physics, biology, engineering, chemistry, and medicine have revolutionized scientific thinking. The work of Charles Darwin profoundly challenged Victorian religious and scientific beliefs that to this day spark heated debates; Sigmund Freud founded modern psychoanalysis; Albert Einstein articulated a series of theories that broadened our knowledge of the physical universe; Alexander Fleming identified penicillin. Exploration of space expanded human understanding of the nature of the universe; Francis Crick and James Watson cracked the DNA code, Scientific breakthroughs as a category is not an event, development, or an era. It is a series of development that may each have led to significant change.

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Related Turning Points:  Related Topics:
  • Charles Darwin - Theory of Evolution
     
  • Albert Einstein -Theory of Relativity
     
  • Alexander Flemming - Discovery of Penicillin
     
  • Space Exploration - Sputnik and Walk on the Moon
     
  • James Watson and Francis Crick - Decoded DNA
     
  • Research to end epidemic disease

 

 

 

 

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