Shmi answers What are some examples from history where a scientific theory predicted a significant experimental observation in advance?

[Shmi]

Here is 4 off the top of my head:

Graphene

Higgs

Young’s double-slit experiment

Ion channels

[gwern]

More biology examples: https://​​www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/​​pmc/​​articles/​​PMC3681688/​​

[Kenny]

I remember reading about Higgs in the news a couple of year ago. It was a very fascinating discovery.