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Scientists have transformed the way we think and live throughout the centuries.What are the most important scientific discoveries of all time? In no particular order, we present the top 100 in eight different categories.Firstly we bring you the 100 Greatest Discoveries in the Astronomy where Copernicus first theorized that the Sun was the center of our solar system, but it took the work of Johannes Kepler to prove it.Learn why the universe is expanding and meet modern astronomers who gauge the likelihood of life “out there.”

Joesph Priestley initiated the study of chemistry in 1770 with the discovery of oxygen. From there, witness the development of plastics and a familiar table that has confounded high school chemistry students for generations.Detailing the history of what may be the oldest science, this program explores 13 of its crucial benchmarks: ancient awareness that the planets move; Copernican cosmology; Johannes Kepler’s laws of planetary motion; Galileo’s discovery of Jupiter’s moons; Edmund Halley’s comet prediction; William and Carolyn Herschel’s galactic mapping; Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity; Edwin Hubble’s proof that the universe is expanding; Karl Jansky’s discovery of galactic radio waves; Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson’s detection of the cosmic microwave background; observations of gamma ray bursts; the discovery of extrasolar planets; and the “big rip” theory. A Discovery Channel Production.

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