Einstein's Theory of Relativity and 20th Century Science

The scientific legacy of the 20th century gave proof of the revolutionary changes in many areas of the sciences, in particular, physics, biology, astronomy, chemistry, neurosciences, and earth and environmental ______.

20th Century Science generated entirely novel insights in all areas of research, often thanks to the introduction of novel ______ methods.

Twentieth century cosmology greatly improved our knowledge of the place that man and his planet occupy in the ______.

Questions now arise on the origin and overall, its history and its ______.

The epistemological and methodological questions as well as the interdisciplinary aspects become ever more important in scientific ______.

The 'wonder' that Plato and Aristotle put at the origin of thought, today extends to ______ itself.

Einstein's formulation of the theory of relativity in 1905 included the unifying concept of energy related to mass and the speed of light: E = ______

In the 20th century, the development of the semi-conductor (transistor) led to great advances in ______ technology

The year 1953 was an important landmark for biology with the description by Crick and Watson of the structure of ______, the carrier of genetic information

Modern physics in the 20th century grew into a primary discipline contributing to all today’s basic natural sciences: astronomy, ______, and biology

It took a hundred years since Clausius's time for it to be fully recognized that all biological processes have also to obey the laws of ______

In the second half of the 20th century, several branches of science continued to make great progress in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, ______, and astronomy

Physics has enabled us to understand the basic components of ______ and we are well on the way to an ever more consistent and unitary understanding of the entire structure of natural reality

The latest developments in ______ are also particularly surprising: they further confirm the great unity of physics

The 20th century has seen medicine find a cure for many ______ diseases and the beginning of organ transplants

From progress in computational logic to the chemistry of ______, scientific research has broadened our knowledge

Biology too, with the discovery of DNA and the development of genetics, allows us to penetrate the fundamental processes of ______

Information technology and the digital processing of information have transformed our lifestyle and our way of communicating in the space of very few ______