Scientific discoverings By JaviC 1543 Heliocentric model (Copernicus). 1609 Laws of planetary motion (Kepler). 1687 Newton’s laws of motion & gravity (Isaac Newton). 1820 Electromagnetism discovered (Hans Christian Ørsted & André-Marie Ampère). 1861 Germ theory of disease (Louis Pasteur). 1869 Periodic Table created (Dmitri Mendeleev). 1880 Radio waves proven (Heinrich Hertz). 1905 Theory of Relativity (Einstein). 1928 Discovery of Penicillin (Alexander Fleming). 1950 DNA structure identified (Watson & Crick). 1966 First human on the Moon (Apollo 11). 2012 Higgs boson particle confirmed. 2020 First COVID-19 vaccines developed rapidly using mRNA technology.