What do you think was the most important scientific discovery in the past 50 years?

Question

I think it was DNA. Was there anything MORE important than DNA discovered in the past 50 years?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Spaceship and satelite.Because without these 2 things you wouldn't know anything besides the Earth

Answer 3

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Answer 4

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Answer 5

Both DNA and the human genome are very good answers. I'd also suggest the integrated circuit chip. Consider how computers have been totally integrated into science, discovery, the workplace, the home, and even human social interactions, and that much of our present scientific discoveries would have been impossible without computers.

Answer 6

The increased understanding of DNA is a really good choice Denie.  It's a very important development.  It has been used to convict many criminals and set many other innocent men free.  That's one immediate application I think we can all appreciate, but I don't think we've seen the end of what it will do for us.

It's hard to select just one thing from the past 50 years.  I would think the development of medicine would rank up there.  The development of computers has also had quite an obvious impact on us all.

Answer 7

I agree that DNA was a major (perhaps the major discovery) in science. However, the link below lets you know this was done more than 50 years ago. True Watson, Crick, and Wilkins didn't win the Nobel Prize for their work until 1962 which fits in the 50 year limit.

I think the greatest accomplishment was the complete mapping of the human genome (link below). We still have no idea what the ultimate implications (good or bad) of that would be but it is the stepping stone to possible cures, treatments, and prevention on scales that mankind has never seen before.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

I think the most important discovery of the past 50 years is the race of Hobbits they discovered and had in National Geographic.

Answer 10

IC chips.  Computers have changed more than anything else.

Answer 11

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Answer 12

Well, if you are asking about discoveries (rather than inventions) made after 1957, that eliminates a lot of things like DNA and computers.

My nominations are RNA, plate techtonics and the cosmic background radiation.

Answer 13

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