Penicillin
The discovery of penicillin is attributed to Scottish scientist and Nobel laureate Alexander Fleming in 1928.
Quoted from Wiki
Uranium
Uranium was discovered in 1789 by Martin Klaproth, a German chemist, who isolated an oxide of uranium while analyzing pitchblende samples from the Joachimsal silver mines in the former Kingdom of Bohemia located in the present day Czech Republic.
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GOLDThe first piece of gold was noticed by James Marshall early on the morning of January 24, 1848.(In Coloma,California)
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Insulin
Sir Frederick Banting, the Canadian chemist, was one of the twentieth century's most celebrated medical heroes. His discovery of insulin, made with his assistant Charles Best and other colleagues, was one of the most important medical breakthroughs of the century. Since its discovery, insulin has saved or transformed the lives of millions of people with diabetes.Quoted from collectionscanadaCortisone
Edward Calvin Kendall was awarded the 1950 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (together with fellow Mayo reseacher Philip S. Hench and Swiss reseaarcher Tadeus Reichstein) for the discovery of adrenal cortex hormones (including cortisone), their structures, and functions.
Quoted from inventors.about
Australia
The first ship and crew to chart part of the Australian coast (the west coast of Cape York Peninsular in Queensland) and meet with Aboriginal people was the Duyfken, in 1606, captained by Dutchman Willem Janszoon.Quoted from Schoolatoz
ElectricityThe term 'electricity' is derived from a term used by William Gilbert in 1600 to describe static electricity. The discovery that lightning is electrical was made byBenjamin Franklin in 1759.Qouted From UCSBScienceline
