Word: britishism
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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...
...After analyzing decades of temperature readings, British engineer George Callendar describes what is later known as the greenhouse effect...
...British archaeologist Howard Carter opens the tomb of Tutankhamun, a little-known pharaoh who died...
...British physician Douglas Bevis describes amniocentesis, a prenatal test for genetic abnormalities...
...British chemist Rosalind Franklin's X-ray photographs of DNA show that the molecule has a helical structure...