50s+to+Current+History

The Evolution of the Atom Modle
 * __ [|1964] - [|Murray Gell-Mann] and [|George Zweig] : postulate [|quarks] leading to the [|standard model]  __
 * __ [|1964] - [|Arno Penzias] and [|Robert Woodrow Wilson] : detection of [|CMBR] providing experimental evidence for the [|Big Bang]  __
 * __ [|1965] - [|Leonard Hayflick] : normal cells divide only a certain number of times: the [|Hayflick limit] __
 * __ [|1984] - [|Kary Mullis] invents the [|polymerase chain reaction], a key discovery in [|molecular biology]  __
 * __ [|1995] - [|Michel Mayor] and [|Didier Queloz] definitively observe the first [|extrasolar planet] around a [|main sequence star]  __
 * __ [|1997] - [|Roslin Institute] : [|Dolly the sheep] was cloned. __
 * __ [|1997] - [|CDF] and [|DØ] experiments at [|Fermilab] : [|Top quark] . ____. __
 * __ [|2001] - The first draft of the [|human genome] is completed. __


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Synthesized 6 transuranium elements and suggested a change in the layout of the periodic table. by glen seaborg in 1951