Discovery and invention facts
Who found or invented it, and when. 650 facts.
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Pillars of Creation to John Charles Duncan, in 1920.
Source: Wikipedia: Pillars of Creation (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q573260 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of axiom of choice to Ernst Zermelo, in 1904.
Source: Wikipedia: Axiom of choice (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q179692 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of triode to Lee de Forest and Robert von Lieben, in 1906.
Source: Wikipedia: Triode (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q176129 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of merge sort to John von Neumann, in 1945.
Source: Wikipedia: Merge sort (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q189057 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of King's Gambit to Luis Ramírez de Lucena, in 1497.
Source: Wikipedia: King's Gambit (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q194506 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Russell's paradox to Bertrand Russell and Ernst Zermelo, in 1901.
Source: Wikipedia: Russell's paradox (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q33401 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of NGC 8 to Otto Struve and Otto Wilhelm von Struve, in 1865.
Source: Wikipedia: NGC 8 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q33546 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Godwin's law to Mike Godwin, in 1990.
Source: Wikipedia: Godwin's law (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q154619 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Flame Nebula to William Herschel, in 1786.
Source: Wikipedia: Flame Nebula (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q490342 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Minkowski spacetime to Hermann Minkowski, in 1908.
Source: Wikipedia: Minkowski spacetime (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q464794 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Quetzalcoatlus to Douglas A. Lawson, in 1971.
Source: Wikipedia: Quetzalcoatlus (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q131205 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Euler–Mascheroni constant to Leonhard Euler, in 1734.
Source: Wikipedia: Euler's constant (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q273023 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Saturn Nebula to William Herschel, in 1782.
Source: Wikipedia: Saturn Nebula (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q15831 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Ball's Pyramid to Henry Lidgbird Ball, in 1788.
Source: Wikipedia: Ball's Pyramid (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q152872 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of comparative advantage to David Ricardo, in 1817.
Source: Wikipedia: Comparative advantage (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q215551 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of equals sign to Robert Recorde, in 1557.
Source: Wikipedia: Equals sign (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q214796 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Réaumur scale to René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, in 1731.
Source: Wikipedia: Réaumur scale (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q223061 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of neuro-linguistic programming to John Grinder and Richard Bandler, in 1976.
Source: Wikipedia: Neuro-linguistic programming (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q202745 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator to Isabel Briggs Myers and Katherine Cook Briggs, in 1944.
Source: Wikipedia: Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q897939 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Sagittarius Star Cloud to Charles Messier, in 1764.
Source: Wikipedia: Small Sagittarius Star Cloud (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q13618 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Klein bottle to Felix Klein, in 1882.
Source: Wikipedia: Klein bottle (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q23638 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Leyden jar to Ewald Georg von Kleist, in 1745.
Source: Wikipedia: Leyden jar (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q23645 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of methenamine to Alexander Butlerov, in 1859.
Source: Wikipedia: Hexamethylenetetramine (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q71969 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of poly(methyl methacrylate) to Walter Bauer, in 1928.
Source: Wikipedia: Poly(methyl methacrylate) (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q146123 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of classical conditioning to Ivan Pavlov, in 1897.
Source: Wikipedia: Classical conditioning (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q212737 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Robinson Crusoe Island to Juan Fernández, in 1574.
Source: Wikipedia: Robinson Crusoe Island (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q329422 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of autoclave to Charles Chamberland, in 1879.
Source: Wikipedia: Autoclave (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q188223 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Wollemia nobilis to David Noble, in 1994.
Source: Wikipedia: Wollemia nobilis (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q190510 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Compton scattering to Arthur Holly Compton, in 1922.
Source: Wikipedia: Compton scattering (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q25424022 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of M-theory to Edward Witten, in 1995.
Source: Wikipedia: M-theory (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q232184 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Messier 40 to Charles Messier, in 1764.
Source: Wikipedia: Winnecke 4 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q13886 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Messier 25 to Jean-Philippe de Cheseaux, in 1745.
Source: Wikipedia: Messier 25 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q13623 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of law of definite proportions to Joseph Proust, in 1794.
Source: Wikipedia: Law of definite proportions (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q327158 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of North America Nebula to William Herschel, in 1786.
Source: Wikipedia: North America Nebula (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q265515 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Barnard's galaxy to Edward Emerson Barnard, in 1884.
Source: Wikipedia: NGC 6822 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q622789 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of ethnobotany to John William Harshberger, in 1895.
Source: Wikipedia: Ethnobotany (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q841408 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Worcestershire sauce to John Wheeley Lea and William Henry Perrins, in 1830.
Source: Wikipedia: Worcestershire sauce (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q842618 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of measuring cylinder to Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau, in 1784.
Source: Wikipedia: Graduated cylinder (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q213452 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of fine-structure constant to Arnold Sommerfeld, in 1918.
Source: Wikipedia: Fine-structure constant (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q5997 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of inner core to Inge Lehmann, in 1936.
Source: Wikipedia: Earth's inner core (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q394352 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of bolometer to Samuel Langley, in 1878.
Source: Wikipedia: Bolometer (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q852212 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Plesiosaurus to Mary Anning, in 1823.
Source: Wikipedia: Plesiosaurus (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q857081 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Lake Bangweulu to David Livingstone, in 1868.
Source: Wikipedia: Lake Bangweulu (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q673169 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Rett syndrome to Andreas Rett, in 1966.
Source: Wikipedia: Rett syndrome (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q917357 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Virgo Supercluster to Gérard de Vaucouleurs, in 1953.
Source: Wikipedia: Virgo Supercluster (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q175760 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of tomb of Tutankhamun to Howard Carter, in 1922.
Source: Wikipedia: Tomb of Tutankhamun (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q835309 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Bathurst Island to William Edward Parry, in 1819.
Source: Wikipedia: Bathurst Island (Nunavut) (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q217369 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of NGC 32 to Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt, in 1861.
Source: Wikipedia: NGC 32 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q43756 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Moruroa to Philip Carteret, in 1767.
Source: Wikipedia: Moruroa (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q318446 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Bessemer process to Henry Bessemer, in 1855.
Source: Wikipedia: Bessemer process (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q334055 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of CRISPR to Yoshizumi Ishino, in 1987.
Source: Wikipedia: CRISPR (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q412563 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Virgo Cluster to Charles Messier, in 1781.
Source: Wikipedia: Virgo Cluster (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q271818 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of California Nebula to Edward Emerson Barnard, in 1885.
Source: Wikipedia: California Nebula (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q494019 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Tesla coil to Nikola Tesla, in 1891.
Source: Wikipedia: Tesla coil (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q622424 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of NGC 63 to Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, in 1865.
Source: Wikipedia: NGC 63 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q745040 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Tyndall effect to John Tyndall, in 1860.
Source: Wikipedia: Tyndall effect (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q244040 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Meissner effect to Robert Ochsenfeld and Walther Meissner, in 1933.
Source: Wikipedia: Meissner effect (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q220620 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of factitious disorder imposed on self to Richard Asher, in 1951.
Source: Wikipedia: Factitious disorder imposed on self (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q642598 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Antennae Galaxies to William Herschel, in 1785.
Source: Wikipedia: Antennae Galaxies (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q725595 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Olbers's paradox to Thomas Digges, in 1600.
Source: Wikipedia: Olbers' paradox (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q33558 (CC0)