Science in 100 key breakthroughs

1.Counting

2.Geometry

3.Curvature of the Earth

4.Astrometry

5.Algebra

6.Aviation

7.Scientific method

8.Heliocentric solar system

9.Human anatomy

10.Kepler's laws

11.Astronomical telescope

12.Calculus

13.Newton's Principia

14.Linnaean taxonomy

15.Kinetic theory

16.Principle of least action

17.Galaxies

18.Bayes's theorem

19.Combustion

20.Photosynthesis

21.Deep time

22.Conservation laws

23.Vaccination

24.Electricity

25.Wave theory of light

26.Atomic theory

27.Molecules

28.Navier-Stokes equations

29.Greenhouse effect

30.Ice ages

31.Cell theory

32.Anaesthetics

33.Second law of thermodynamics

34.Foucault's pendulum

35.Natural selection

36.Spectroscopy

37.Maxwell's equations

38.Germ theory

39.Mendel's laws of inheritance

40.Antiseptics

41.Periodic table

42.Out of Africa

43.Nervous system

44.X-rays

45.Radioactivity

46.Vitamins

47.Viruses

48.Rocket science

49.Photons

50.Special relativity

51.Earth's core

52.Radiometric dating

53.The Burgess Shale

54.Superconductors

55.Continental drift

56.General relativity

57.Insulin

58.Wave-particle duality

59.Schrodiger's equation

60.Penicillin

61.Game theory

62.Hubble's law

63.Big Bang theory

64.Antimatter

65.Dark matter

66.Ecology

67.Radar

68.Computers

69.Splitting the atom

70.Black holes

71.DNA carries genes

72.Semiconductor electronics

73.Information theory

74.Quantum electrodynamics

75.The double helix

76.Miller-Urey experiment

77.Transplant surgery

78.Lasers

79.Parallel universes

80.Chaos theory

81.Quasars

82.Higgs boson

83.Cognitive psychology

84.String theory

85.Genetic engineering

86.Hawking radiation

87.Death of the dinosaurs

88.Scanning tunnelling microscope

89.Quantum entanglement

90.Fullerenes

91.Gene therapy

92.Functional MRI scanners

93.Evidence-based medicine

94.Extrasolar planets

95.Fermat's last theorem

96.Cloning

97.Deep Blue beats Kasparov

98.Human genome

99.Large Hadron Collider

100.Synthetic life.