Nineteen European nations forbade human cloning; however, the UK and Germany refused to sign the agreement.
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Dr. John J. Livingood reported the first synthetic production of a natural form of radium.
Dmitri Mendeleev presented the first periodic table.
Two scientists from the University of California Radiation Laboratory discovered carbon-14, a new isotope of carbon.
The idea of the Big Bang Theory being the creation of the universe was supported by scientists.
The first draft of the human genome was published in Nature Magazine.
