Scientific Discovery

Recently, there is this big hoo ha debate whether Singapore's investment into the bio --- any thing under the sun -- gical is successful or not?

Here is a list of ground breaking scientific discoveries that rocked the world. We are hoping to see if there is any earth shattering discovery on the way from Singapore. Meanwhile, any wobble probably comes from earthquake from Indonesia, or Malaysian newspaper claiming land reclamation causes flood.

Copernicus, Kepler, Galilio - Earth is not the centre of Universe.
Newton- Uniting the Heaven ( by that he meant stars and planets) and Earth with his Law of Motions - Principia.
Einstein - Relating Energy & Matter by the famous . This leads to the manufactoring of nuclear weapons - Lise Mertner, Otto Frish, Enrico Fermi.

Lavoisier - Mystery of burning (combustion) - total mass after reaction is exactly the same as before the reaction. People used to think that after burning something, it disappear and becomes ashes. I suppose some people still thinks that is true.
Rutherford - subatomic particles
Marie Curie, Pierre Curie, Becqeurel - Radioactivity. ( Think they die of cancer)

Charles Lyell - Principle of Geology and age of the earth.
Alfed Wegener - Theory of Plate Tectonic and Continent Drift . Many many many years ago, the America and Europes are joined, so are Australia and Asia

Charles Darwin - Origin of Species, natural selection, theory of evolution, survival of fittest ....
Gregor Mendel - Genes
Louis Pasteur - Germs and Microorganisms and relate them to diseases. ( We now know that some are actually good for our body - e.g. those stuff in Yakult and Vitagen)