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Pioneering primatologist Jane Goodall rose to fame thanks to her observations of chimpanzee communities located in this African country.
What is Tanzania?
This founding member of the Brick Police Department is the current president of the OCVTS School Board
Working independently, English polymath Robert Hooke and Dutch scientist Anton van Leeuwenhoek invented this important instrument within the same decade.
What is the microscope?
The popularity of fictional stories involving this London-based detective led directly to the widespread use of Forensic Science.
Who is Sherlock Holmes?
Perhaps new Jersey's most famous inventor, Thomas Edison created the first electric lightbulb by running a current through a thin filament of this metal.
What is tungsten?
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to a team of three scientists who created a framework of these particles, separated by long organic chains.
What are metal ions?
Hanger 1, the former site of PAA, was also once home to this infamous flying machine.
What is the Hindenburg?
The nucleus of atoms was discovered through a series of experiments by Ernest Rutherford, for who the experiments and the model of the atoms that came out of them were named, Hans Geiger (of counter fame), and this Englishman.
Who is Ernest Marsden?
This field of Forensic Science, often used in conjunction with DNA analysis, involves the analysis of bodily fluids.
What is serology?
The first nearly complete dinosaur skeleton discovered in America was found in a marl pit in this Camden County borough in 1858.
What is Haddonfield?
The early onset rate of this disease, which is the second leading cause of death in the United States, has risen by 79% over the past 30 years.
What is Cancer?
ALPS was founded as a full time academy in this year.
What is 2015?
The first one of these was created by the Arabic polymath Ibn al Haytham, who is sometimes considered the world's first true scientist, mainly for his contributions to our understanding of vision and light.
What is a camera?
These microscopic ridges are left on a fired bullet by the spiral rifling on the inside of most firearms, which causes the bullet to spin.
What are striations?
In what might have been literally the biggest scientific discover ever, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson used the Holmdel Horn Antenna to discover this "afterglow" of the Big Bang.
What is the cosmic microwave background?
Scientists at CalTech recently broke records by building the largest ever quantum computer, which operated with 6,100 of these, created by keeping atoms in a state of superposition coherency.
What are qubits?
The Brick, Jackson, and Waretown Centers were all first opened in this year.
What is 1972?
Published in 1881, "The Formation of Vegetable Moulds Through the Action of Worms, with Observations on their Habits" is the last published book by this biologist, who was also an expert on Barnacles.
Who is Charles Darwin?
Of the three major patterns seen in human fingerprints, this type is the most common, making up approximately 60% of prints.
What are loops?
Opened in March of 2025, this museum's executive director is Dr. Kenneth Lacovara, who famously discovered two of the largest sauropod dinosaurs known to science.
What is the Edelman Fossil Park & Museum?
Genetic testing has recently confirmed that this species of Butterfly, last seen in 1941, was the first species of American insect whose extinction was directly cause by humans.
What is the Xerces Blue Butterfly?
This was the first ever program ever offered by OCVTS, starting in 1959.
What is licensed practical nursing?
A quarry in this Swedish village was the site of the discovery of no less than 9 of the 91 naturally occurring chemical elements.
What is Ytterby?
This type of evidence is not visible to the unaided eye, but can be revealed through the use of alternative lighting (such as UV), powders, or chemicals.
What is latent evidence?
One of the world's most important antibiotics, often used to treat tuberculosis, was discovered at Rutgers university by Albert Schatz.
What is streptomycin?