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Word: britishism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...British mathematician and cryptographer Alan Turing helps build an electronic computer, the Colossus, that will be used by the Allies to crack German codes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Century of Science | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...After analyzing decades of temperature readings, British engineer George Callendar describes what is later known as the greenhouse effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Century of Science | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...British archaeologist Howard Carter opens the tomb of Tutankhamun, a little-known pharaoh who died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Century of Science | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...British physician Douglas Bevis describes amniocentesis, a prenatal test for genetic abnormalities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Century of Science | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...British chemist Rosalind Franklin's X-ray photographs of DNA show that the molecule has a helical structure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Century of Science | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

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