Year | Invention / Discovery | Inventor / Discoverer | Author Name | Country |
1960 | Birth Control Pill | Gregory Pincus, John Rock, and Min-Chueh Chang | USA | |
1957 | Sodium-Cooled Nuclear Reactor | Sodium-Cooled Core Reactor | U.S. Government Scientists | USA |
1957 | Artificial Satellite | Research Team | Soviet Union | |
1958 | Telecommunications Satellite |
Satellites for the Telecommunications Industry
Group of Scientists
USA
1959
Integrated Circuit
Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce
USA
1960
Laser
Laser
Charles H. Townes, Arthur L. Schawlow, and Gordon Gould
USA
1960
Synthesis of Chlorophyll
Chlorophyll Synthesis
Robert Burns Woodward
USA
1962
Light Emitting Diode (LED)
Optoelectronic Diode
Nick Holonyak
USA
1964 | Liquid Crystal Display |
| George Helmeier | USA |
1965 | Holography | Laser Holography | Denis Gabor | Belgium |
1966 | Artificial Heart (Left Ventricle) | Artificial Heart | Michael Ellis DeBakey | USA |
1967 | Heart Transplant in Humans | Heart Transplant for Humans | Christiaan Neethling Barnard | South Africa |
1963-1969 | Development of Numerous Particle Detectors |
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Georges Charpak
Country: France
Year: 1970
Achievement: First complete synthesis of a gene
Har Gobind Khorana
Country: USA
Year: 1970
Achievement: First complete synthesis of a gene
Ted Hoff
Country: USA
Year: 1971
Achievement: Microprocessor
Raymond Damadian
Country: USA
Year: 1971
Achievement: Magnetic resonance imaging
J. S. Kilby and J. D. Merryman
Country: USA
Year: 1972
Achievement: Pocket calculator
Year: 1973
Achievement: Synthesis of cryptates
Jean-Marie Lehn
France
1974
Recombinant DNA (genetic engineering)
Recombined DNA
Research Group
1974
Smart Card
Computer Card
Roland Moreno
1975
Fiber Optics
Bell Laboratories
1975
Hepatitis B Vaccine
Philippe Maupas
1976
Supercomputer
Supercomputer
J. H. Van Tassel and Seymour Cray
USA
1978
Synthesis of Insulin Genes
Insulin Gene Synthesis
Roberto Crea, Tadaaki Hirose, Adam Kraszewski, and Keiichi Ikatura
USA
1978
Gene Transplantation Between Mammals
Gene Grafting of Mammals
Paul Berg, Richard Mulligan, and Bruce Howard
USA
1978
Jarvik-7 Artificial Heart
Jarvik-7 Artificial Heart
Robert K. Jarvik
USA
1979
Cash Register
Money Recording Machine
James Ritty
1979
Compact Disk
CD Disc
Joop Sinjou and Toshi Tata Doi
Hà Lan, Nhật
1979
Correction of genetic anomalies in mouse cells (recombinant DNA and micromanipulation techniques)
Repairing abnormalities in mouse DNA
W. French Anderson and colleagues
USA
1979
In vivo culture of T lymphocytes
T cell transplantation in vivo
Saint-Louis Hospital team (Paris)
France
1981
Space Shuttle
Spacecraft
NASA engineers
USA
1985
Vaccine against leishmaniasis
Leishmaniasis vaccination (sand fly disease)
L. Monjour
1986
High-temperature superconductors
High-Temperature Superconductors
J. Georg Bednorz and Karl A. Müller
Germany, Switzerland
1987
Vaccine Against Schistosomiasis
Vaccine for Schistosomiasis (blood-dwelling fluke)
A. Capron
1988
RU486 Abortion Pill
RU486 Abortion Drug
Étienne-Émile Beaulieu
1989
COBE (Cosmic Background Explorer)
COBE (Cosmic Background Explorer)
George Smoot and Team
1993
Implementation of the Keck Telescope in Hawaii (the largest telescope in the world)
Using the Keck Telescope in Hawaii (the largest telescope)
Researchers from the California Institute of Technology
1994
Evidence of the Existence of the Top Quark
Proof of the Existence of the Top Quark
Researchers at Fermilab
