Thoreau the scientist – how environmental research informed ‘Walden’ and later works

Thoreau’s work as a pioneering physical scientist is almost invisible in popular culture, according to a geologist and ...
Austin American-Statesman

Texan salutes grandfather, Polish scientist who discovered key to high tech

A slender thread of memory connects a Texas Hill Country man to a discovery that transformed modern technology. In 1916, Fred Schmidt’s grandfather, Jan Czochralski (1885-1953), a largely self-taught ...
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Baby monitors, satellites and the moon: Telling history of Jersey Shore's Black scientists

Tyrone Laws is speaking to educators, students and community members about the innovations that came from Black scientists, including his neighbors in what once was South Belmar, now Lake Como. They ...
The Scientist

A History of HeLa Cells: How the Immortal Cells Advanced Biomedical Science

In an amazing twist of fate, the aggressive cervical cancer tumor that killed Henrietta Lacks, a 31-year old African American mother, became an essential tool that helped the biomedical field flourish ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Richard Somerville on the long history of climate change science

There are some scientists whose contributions to the stores of human knowledge are so well-known that they have become household names. I don’t think it’s going too far out on a limb to say that ...