Episode 29 - Percy Lavon Julian
You may have never heard of him, but African-American chemist Percy Lavon Julian is the guy you should thank for your hormonal birth control. And life is just better when nerds name things!
17 Jul 201739min
Episode 28 - Mary Agnes Chase
Mary Agnes Chase struggled to begin her career in botany, so when she finally made the big time, she turned around to help other women and minorities succeed in the field.
5 Jul 201741min
Episode 27 - Carl Linnaeus
Botanist Carl Linnaeus had a noble goal: to create a new standardized system of naming all living creatures on the planet. But he was only human, after all, and couldn't resist immortalizing his enemi...
19 Jun 201743min
Episode 26 - Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead traveled the world to study and compare different cultures, in a quest to find out which parts of us are driven by nature and which by culture.
5 Jun 201752min
Episode 25 - Richard Feynman
Richard Feynman was a brilliant theoretical physicist who won a Nobel Prize and inspired his younger sister to a career in STEM -- but is he worthy of hero worship?
1 Mai 201752min
Episode 24 - Sálim Ali
"Birdman of India" Sálim Ali spent nearly 80 years observing and documenting bird species in India, yet he still considered his research a drop in the bucket.
17 Apr 201750min
Episode 23 - Barbara McClintock
Cytogeneticist Barbara McClintock proved chromosomal crossover in meiosis long before anyone in her field understood it.
3 Apr 201744min
