Whats the best science?

just before lunchtime on Monday, the 20th of February 2006 by Chad

The Science Blogs is taking a poll about the best science of all time. Head on over and take a vote. Here are the options, you can get better descriptions on the site. Myself? That’d be disproving aether.

# Galileo Galilei: ~1610: Discovery of the moons of Jupiter, and measurements of the acceleration of falling objects.
# Ole Roemer ~1675: Measurement of the speed of light by timing the eclipses of Io.
# Isaac Newton ~1700: Dispersion of light and measurements of circulating fluids.
# Henry Cavendish, ~1797: Measurement of the gravitational constant G.
# Michael Faraday ~1831: Discovery of electromagnetic induction.
# Michelson and Morley ~1887: Disproving the existence of the luminiferous aether.
# Heinrich Hertz ~1888: Creation and detection of electromagnetic waves.
# Ernest Rutherford ~1909: Discovery of the nucleus of the atom.
# Edwin Hubble ~1929: Determination of the distance to galaxies, and measurement of the expansion of the universe.
# Rudolf MÃ¶ssbauer ~1957: Discovery of the MÃ¶ssbauer Effect and gamma-ray spectroscopy.
# Alain Aspect ~1981: Experimental tests of Bell’s Inequality.