Fritz Haber – Bread from Air, Poison from Science
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20th Century
Episodes on Curie, Haber, Heisenberg, and Pauling examine twentieth-century advances in physics and chemistry alongside their medical, industrial, and ethical consequences.
Thomas Hunt Morgan – The Fly Room and the Chromosome Map
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Barbara McClintock – The Cornfield and the Jumping Gene
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Alexander Fleming – Accident, Mold, and the First Antibiotic
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Frederick Banting & Charles Best – Stealing Fire for Diabetics
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Jonas Salk – The Vaccine and the Public Good
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Santiago Ramón y Cajal – The Forest of Neurons
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Wilder Penfield – Sparks on the Cortex
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Albert Einstein – The Relativity of Genius
Albert Einstein is one of those rare names that transcends science and enters everyday language. To call someone “an Einstein” is to call them a genius. His wild hair and twinkling eyes became a…