In the postwar decades, scientists working there pioneered a stunning list of breakthroughs, from advances in high-speed photography to the development of the physics behind microwaves.
West cites a long list of breakthroughs to illustrate this historical pattern, from the discovery of the steam engine to the invention of the Internet.
Modern antiretroviral drugs to treat HIV/AIDS could be added to that list of breakthroughs, because they too have improved countless lives in the poor world.
He says that after reading the Times story he sat down and wrote out a list of breakthroughs directly attributable to the advances in genomics, among them providing new understanding of age-related macular degeneration, Crohn's disease and the role of autophagy, and Parkinson's disease and the central role of alpha-synuclein aggregates; and the development of a recent drug for lupus.
The Chinese media, like the American press, used this summit as a chance to reminisce on the short list of past breakthrough meetings between the two countries — Richard Nixon's historic visit to China in 1972, for example, and Deng Xiaoping's goodwill visit to the United States in 1979.
The list of technological breakthroughs is short.
Priya Ganapati over at Wired posted a top ten list of tech breakthroughs in 2008 including flexible displays, Michael Phelps swimming pants, and memristor.
Finally, we've prepared our own list of career-related breakthroughs of the year in science, what we--the editors of Science's Next Wave--believe are the most important developments in scientific careers over the last twelve months.
Entertainment Weekly ranked him among its 2005 "Summer MVPs", a cover story list of ten entertainers with outstanding breakthrough performances.
The first direct detections of exoplanets topped the list of this year's runners-up for Breakthrough of the Year.
