Heliocentrism

Évariste Galois died in a duel at 20, the night after writing the foundations of group theory in a single letter

Évariste Galois died in a duel at 20, the night after writing the foundations of group theory in a single letter

Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla developed alternating current and over 300 patents

Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem

Andrew Wiles spent seven years working in secret to prove Fermat's Last Theorem

Newton's laws of motion

Isaac Newton's Principia introduced three laws of motion and universal gravitation

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar calculated the mass limit for white dwarfs at age 19 on a boat to England

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar calculated the mass limit for white dwarfs at age 19 on a boat to England

Black hole

Stephen Hawking predicted black holes radiate energy and slowly evaporate — Hawking radiation