Ten revelations widely considered to be the most influential in science:
-Isaac Newton's laws of motion
-Robert Hooke's discovery of cells, coupled with Anton van Leeuwenhoek's discovery of protozoa
-Alexander Fleming's detection and isolation of penicillin
-Ignaz Semmelweiss's germ theory
-Gregor Mendel's laws of heredity
-Nicolaus Copernicus's conception of a heliocentric solar system
-Dmitri Mendeleev's Periodic Table
-Einstein's equation E=mc2, followed by his General Theory of Relativity
-Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection
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