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Here are the Top 10 science anniversaries of 2022

Insulin to treat diabetes, the slide rule and the birthdays of Gregor Mendel and Louis Pasteur make the list

By Tom Siegfried

Contributing Correspondent

- More than 2 years ago

image of a slide rule

In 1622, priest and part-time mathematician William Oughtred invented the slide rule.

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Even though it’s only even odds that 2022 will turn out to be less of a disaster than 2021 (or 2020), at least 2022 is the best recent year for compiling a Top 10 list of science anniversaries.