It has been 100 years since McCall opened it's doors to students. Alot has changed in our world since then. Important scientific discoveries over the last 100 years:
- 1912 - Alfred Wegener: Continental drift
- 1912 - Max von Laue : x-ray diffraction
- 1913 - Henry Moseley: defined atomic number
- 1913 - Niels Bohr: Model of the atom
- 1915 - Albert Einstein: theory of general relativity - also David Hilbert
- 1915 - Karl Schwarzschild: discovery of the Schwarzschild radius leading to the identification of black holes
- 1918 - Emmy Noether: Noether's theorem - conditions under which the conservation laws are valid
- 1924 - Wolfgang Pauli: quantum Pauli exclusion principle
- 1925 - Erwin Schrödinger: Schrödinger equation (Quantum mechanics)
- 1927 - Werner Heisenberg: Uncertainty principle (Quantum mechanics)
- 1927 - Georges Lemaître: Theory of the Big Bang
- 1928 - Paul Dirac: Dirac equation (Quantum mechanics)
- 1929 - Edwin Hubble: Hubble's law of the expanding universe
- 1929 - Lars Onsager's reciprocal relations: also called Fourth law of thermodynamics
- 1934 - Clive McCay: Calorie Restriction extends the maximum lifespan of another species Calorie_restriction#Research_history
- 1943 - Oswald Avery proves that DNA is the genetic material of the chromosome
- 1947 - William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain invent the first transistor
- 1948 - Claude Elwood Shannon: 'A mathematical theory of communication' a seminal paper in Information theory.
- 1948 - Richard Feynman, Julian Schwinger, Sin-Itiro Tomonaga and Freeman Dyson: Quantum electrodynamics
- 1951 - George Otto Gey propagates first cancer cell line, HeLa
- 1953 - Crick and Watson: helical structure of DNA, basis for molecular biology
- 1964 - Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig: postulate quarks leading to the standard model
- 1964 - Arno Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson: detection of CMBR providing experimental evidence for the Big Bang
- 1965 - Leonard Hayflick: normal cells divide only a certain number of times: the Hayflick limit
- 1967 - Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish discover first pulsar
- 1984 - Kary Mullis invents the polymerase chain reaction, a key discovery in molecular biology
- 1995 - Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz definitively observe the first extrasolar planet around a main sequence star
- 1997 - Roslin Institute: Dolly the sheep was cloned.
- 1997 - CDF and DØ experiments at Fermilab: Top quark.
