University of Chicago
Top University of Chicago Discoveries: Concept of Human Capital Theodore Schultz and Gary Becker Law and Economics: Formulated the fundamental theorem about transactions costs and property rights...
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Top University of Colorado Discoveries: Discovery that the genetic messenger ribonucleic acid (RNA) can act like an enzyme and trigger catalytic reactions; with applications for novel therapeutics....
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Oliver Smithies’ gene-targeting technique, first tried in 1985 at Wisconsin-Madison but developed to its potential here at UNC Michael Knowles, John Gatzy, and Richard Boucher’s discovery that...
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A history of important accomplishments in neutrino physics, going back to the 1970s and culminating with the award of the Nobel Prize to Raymond Davis, Jr. (Physics & Astronomy) last year (2002)....
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In late 1998, a UW-Madison group led by James Thomson was the first to isolate and culture human embryonic stem cells, master undifferentiated cells that arise at the earliest stages of development and...
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One of the leading American sociologists of the 20th century, Robert K. Merton was a theorist who believed deeply in formulating questions in a way that they could be empirically tested – theories of...
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Robert K. Merton (1936) was responsible for many other sociological ideas captured in phrases that became widely used in ordinary conversation. A further example is the now famous Law of...
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Merton is also responsible for the modern usage of the term “anomie.” Drawing upon the 19th century work of the great French sociologist, Émile Durkheim, Merton applied the idea of anomie to the...
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Vanderbilt University
Some significant discoveries from the list: Fetal Surgery Drs.Joseph Bruner and Noel Tulipan were determined to find a way to do surgery sooner when the baby had a better chance ofrecovery,even...
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