Modern Science Timeline

1538	Andreas Vesalius	Human Anatomy
1543	Copernicus	Planets revolve around the earth
1581-1621	Galilei Galileo	All objects fall at same speed
1609	Johannes Kepler	Elliptical orbits of planets; Laws of planetary motion
1628	William Harvey	Circulation of blood
1637	Rene Descartes	Coordinate system of geomentry
1665-1704	Isaac Newton	Law of universal gravitation; Laws of motion
1665	Robert Hooke	Discovery of plant cell
1674	A van Leeuwenhoek	Discovery of micro-organisms
1735	Carl Linnaeus	System of classifying and naming plants and animal
1771	Joseph Priestly	Discovery of oxygen; Description of photosynthesis
1779	Jan Ingenhousz	Description of photosynthesis
1777-1789	Antoine Lavoisier	Law of conservation of matter; System for naming chemicals
1808	John Dalton	Atomic theory
1811	Amedeo Avogardo	Molecules are made of atoms
1820	Hans Christian Oersted	Connection between electricity and megenatism
1831	Michale Faraday	Producing electricity by magnetic induction
1847	Hermann Helmholtz	Law of conservation of energy
1859	Charles Darwin	Theory of natural selection to expain evolution
1860s	Louis Pasteur	Germ theory of disease
1866	Gregor Mendel	Law of heridity
1869	Dmitry Mendeleyev	Periodic table of elements
1860-1870s	James Clerk Maxwell	Electromagnetic light; Equation for electromagnetism
1888	Heinrich Hertz	Radio Waves
1890-1900s	Marie & Pierre Curie	Radioactivity
1900	Max Planck	Quantum theory
1902	Teisserenc de Bort	Atmospheric layers
1902	Karl Landsteiner	Blood groups
1905-1920	Albert Einstein	Theories of relativity; Photoelectric effect; e=m.c.c
1911	Victor Hess	Discovery of cosmic radiation
1913	Niels Bohr	Structure of the atom
1924-1929	Edwin Hubble	Expanding universe
1928	Alexander Fleming	Penicillin
1953	J. Watson and F. Crick	Double-helix structure of DNA