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1984 Supreme Court declares illegally obtained evidence may be admitted at trial if it could be proved that it would have been discovered legally
1953 "Pitdown Man," discovered in 1912 proved to be a hoax 1924 Benoit Mandelbrot, Warsaw Poland, mathematician, proved Zipf's law 1906 U.S. inventor Lee de Forest patents "Audion," a 3-diode amplification valve which proved a pioneering development in radio and broadcasting 1870 Cardiff Giant (supposed petrified human) proved to be gypsum 1868 Frank Dyson, proved Einstein right about light bent by gravity 1851 Walter Reed, U.S. Army Surgeon, proved mosquitoes transmit yellow fever 1819 Jean-Bernard-Leon Foucault, physicist, pendulum proved Earth rotates |
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