Scientific discoveries: where and when
Seeing the invisible : Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
A cure for a killer disease : Louis Pasteur
Discovering penicillin : Alexander Fleming
The fight against disease : Gertrude Elion
Mapping the body : William Harvey
The secret of life : Francis Crick and James Watson
Laws of the universe : Isaac Newton
Experiments in space and time : Albert Einstein
Investigating radioactivity : Marie Curie
The periodic table : Dmitri Mendeleev
The power of electricity : Michael Faraday
Naming the natural world : Carl Linnaeus
The theory of evolution : Charles Darwin
Unmasking dinosaurs : Richard Owen
Drifting continents : Alfred Wegener
Defining our solar system : Nicolaus Copernicus
Looking into space : Galileo Galilei
Discovering galaxies : Edwin Hubble
The big bang : Georges Lemaître