20 Great Discoveries in 500 Words Each
By Nietsnie Trebla
Length1h 18m
About this audiobook
Ever wanted to uncover history’s greatest scientific and technological discoveries—without wading through dense textbooks? This book distills the most groundbreaking breakthroughs into clear, concise, and engaging reads.
Audiobook details
GenreScience and Nature
Length1 hr 18 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 3, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
13The Big Bang Theory: Georges Lemaître's Cosmic Revelation
2Quick Introduction
14The Discovery of the Americas
3The Discovery of Gravity (Isaac Newton)
15Vaccination: Edward Jenner's Pioneering Work
4The Structure of DNA (Watson and Crick)
16The Periodic Table of Elements (Dmitri Mendeleev)
5Penicillin: The Accidental Discovery of Alexander Fleming
17The Expansion of the Universe (Edwin Hubble)
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6The Germ Theory of Disease: The Pioneering Work of Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch
18The Discovery of Insulin (Frederick Banting and Charles Best)
7The Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection (Charles Darwin)
19Quantum Mechanics: The Revolution of the Subatomic World
8Electricity: The Spark of Innovation
20The Discovery of Neptune
9The Heliocentric Model of the Solar System: Copernicus and Galileo
21Plate Tectonics: The Continental Drift Theory of Alfred Wegener
10Radioactivity: The Pioneering Work of Marie Curie
22The Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
11The Discovery of Oxygen
23Thank you for reading!
12The Theory of Relativity (Albert Einstein)
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