The Greatest Scientific Discoveries of All Time

DNA Double Helix Structure by James Watson and Francis Crick

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Discovery of Penicillin by Alexander Fleming

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Theory of Gravity by Isaac Newton

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Model of the Solar System

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Black hole by John Michell

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