Discoveries Category
Cave diving
British cave divers are among the top practitioners and rescuers…
“Doctor Livingstone, I presume?”
In the mid-1800s, central Africa held much mystery for Europeans,…
Charles Darwin
Shropshire-born Charles Darwin (1809-82) had just graduated from Cambridge when…
DNA fingerprinting
In 1984, Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys (1950-) realised that each…
Ultrasound scanning
Ian Donald, CBE (1910-87) was born in Cornwall and, although…
Wallace’s Realms
Alfred Russel Wallace, OM FRS (1823-1913) was born in Monmouthshire…
Michael Faraday
London-born Michael Faraday (1791-1867) is regarded as one of the…
Morphic resonance
In 1973 Dr Rupert Sheldrake (1942-) began investigating how plants…
The Higgs boson
Professor Peter Ware Higgs was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1929…
Electrolysis
On 2nd May 1800, William Nicholson (1753-1815) from London and…
The Maunder Minimum
Annie Russell Maunder (1868-1947) and her husband Edward Walter Maunder…
Sir Walter Raleigh
Born in Devon, Sir Walter Raleigh (1552/4-1618) seemed to be…