100 Greatest Discoveries (2004)
Bill Nye walks viewers through various areas of science to show how far they've come through their beginnings until modern times.
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Episodes
- 1 1. Evolution2004-12-08 · 45mTen milestones that have helped to tell life's story: Walter Alvarez's asteroid theory of dinosaur extinction, the first identification of dinosaur fossils Stanley Miller's simula
- 2 2. Earth Sciences2004-12-15 · 45mTwelve landmark steps to understanding the Earth's structure: Richard Oldham's theory of a liquid core, Inge Lehmann's conclusion that the core is solid iron, Alfred Wegener's prem
- 3 3. Physics2004-12-22 · 45mThirteen discoveries that help explain why matter and energy behave as they do: Galileo's law of falling bodies, Isaac Newton's conclusions of universal gravity, Newton's laws of m
- 4 4. Medicine2005-01-05 · 45mThirteen achievements in medicine: Andreas Vesalius's anatomical charts, William Harvey's breakthrough on blood circulation, Karl Landsteiner's identification of blood groups, the
- 5 5. Astronomy2005-01-12 · 45mThirteen crucial benchmarks in the history of what may be the oldest science: Ancient awareness that the planets move, Copernican cosmology, Johannes Kepler's laws of planetary mot
- 6 6. Chemistry2005-01-19 · 45mThirteen building blocks in a science that may be the foundation of the modern world: Joseph Priestly and Antoine Lavoisier's discovery of oxygen, John Dalton's atomic theory, Avog
- 7 7. Biology2005-01-26 · 45mThirteen breakthroughs in the science of living things: Anton van Leeuwenhoek's discovery of micro-organisms, Robert Brown's identification of cell nuclei, Carl Woese's Archaea cl
- 8 8. Genetics2005-02-02 · 45mThirteen vital contributions to a field tht is now a cornerstone of the life sciences: Gregor Mendel's rules of heredity, Thomas Hunt Morgan's detection of chromosomal gene locati
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