Word: breakthrough
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...breakthrough came in what both Hubel and Wiesel say was an accident. The cells of the monkey's visual cortex failed to "recognize" white dots on the screen, but reacted regularly while the researchers were changing slides. "It wasn't the dot at all, but the edge of the glass" on moving slides, Hubel says...
...quest to regain the technology of explosives. Tantalized by the legendary ability of man before the flash to build "boats in the air and picters on the wind," Goodparley determines to recreate the power that created these mysteries; when he meets Riddley, he thinks he has found the first breakthrough: the ingredients of gunpowder...
...Professor of Neurobiology, shared the award with Dr. Roger W. Sperry, a professor at the California Institute of Technology. During nearly 20 years of collaboration, Hubel and Wiesel discovered the method by which the retina transmits information to the brain. The Nobel Assembly cited the scientists' work as a "breakthrough in research into the ability of the brain to interpret the code of the impulse message from the eyes...
...most exciting commercial application of the battery would be the electric car, MacDiarmid said, adding that it could be "the technological breakthrough the industry needs...
...rock singer, she resumed voice lessons and began singing in local piano bars. When the couple returned to New York City, she worked in cabarets and clubs, evolving her tough-as-nails performing style. In 1978 two executives from Los Angeles-based Chrysalis Records signed her; Heartbreaker was her breakthrough single, followed the next year by her smash Hit Me with Your Best Shot. The days of living on rice and beans were over...