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1900

-- Walter Reed traces yellow fever to the mosquito Aedes aegypti

* Max Planck, the father of quantum physics, discovers that radiation is absorbed and emitted only at certain energies

-- Paul Villard discovers gamma rays

-- Arthur Evans unearths a Bronze Age Minoan palace at Knossos, Crete *

-- Hugo de Vries, Carl Correns, and Erich Tschermak von Seysenegg rediscover Gregor Mendel's 1865 laws of heredity

1901

-- Karl Landsteiner identifies human blood groups A, B, and O

-- Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio ...