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  • Hertz's work on electromagnetism started as many arguments as it settled.

    • Dominique Pestre
    Millennium Essay
  • Victor Hensen realized that in the sea the very small feed the very large.

    • Victor Smetacek
    Millennium Essay
  • The peaking of the population growth rate deserves wider recognition.

    • Vaclav Smil
    Millennium Essay
  • The theory that settlement would bring rain turned to dust — like the fields.

    • Daniel J. Kevles
    Millennium Essay
  • Targeting civilians, not using atomic weapons, was the moral watershed.

    • Kurt Gottfried
    Millennium Essay
  • The genetic code and Francis Crick shared a memorable birthday party.

    • John Cairns
    Millennium Essay
  • The techniques of perspective have achieved invisibility through omnipresence. Filippo Brunelleschi's Florentine peep-show captured the world in two dimensions and made reality virtual.

    • Martin Kemp
    Millennium Essay
  • Scientific good practice — disinterested, communal, universal — is not ‘blobby’ idealism, but a social framework to which researchers must conform if they are to prosper. Now, this contract with society is up for renegotiation.

    • John Ziman
    Millennium Essay
  • The existence, or otherwise, of atoms was hotly debated for several centuries. In the early 1800s, Eilhardt Mitscherlich's descriptions of crystal structures enraged some, but struck a decisive blow for the 'atomist' cause.

    • Robert W. Cahn
    Millennium Essay
  • The idea that viruses might cause tumours inadvertently led to the discovery of cellular growth genes that can promote cancer formation — but usually in the absence of viruses. This success rapidly outgrew the original idea.

    • George Klein
    Millennium Essay