Nobel Prize-winning discoveries
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About this puzzle
Nobel Prizes trail their discoveries by years or sometimes decades, so this puzzle ranks the moment the science happened rather than the moment Stockholm called. That gap is the whole difficulty: the technology you associate with a modern hospital or a modern lab may rest on a discovery much older than the prize that honored it. Ranking by discovery year means separating the breakthrough from its eventual usefulness.
Ranked earliest discovery to latest discovery · year the discovery was made
What's in this puzzle
Listed alphabetically, without their values - the answer order stays hidden until you play.
- Carbon-14 dating
- Color photography
- Fiber optic cable
- Holograms
- MRI
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