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John Leslie
How John Leslie measured radiant heat and produced artificial ice with an air pump.
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Freeman Dyson
How Freeman Dyson connected Feynman and Schwinger, then imagined technologies far beyond his time.
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Marcus Oliphant
How Marcus Oliphant discovered tritium, demonstrated fusion and helped build wartime radar.
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Yunqing Tang
How Yunqing Tang connected arithmetic geometry, modular forms and hidden denominator growth.
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Lê Quang Nẫm
How Lê Quang Nẫm advanced Monge–Ampère equations, geometric analysis and the calculus of variations.
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Vera Rubin
How Vera Rubin used galaxy rotation to uncover overwhelming evidence for dark matter.
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Sophie Morel
How Sophie Morel used geometry and representation theory to advance the Langlands program.
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Frank Merle
How Frank Merle revealed the hidden structure of blow-up in nonlinear waves and dispersive equations.
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Gérard Laumon
How Gérard Laumon connected sheaves, Fourier transforms and arithmetic geometry.
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Katherine Johnson
How Katherine Johnson calculated the trajectories that carried astronauts into orbit and to the Moon.
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Boaz Klartag
How Boaz Klartag revealed geometric laws that emerge when dimensions become enormous.
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Pavle Savić
How Pavle Savić and Irène Joliot-Curie uncovered the strange products of uranium bombardment.
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Arlie Petters
How Arlie Petters built a rigorous mathematical theory of gravitational lensing.
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Hugh Everett III
How Hugh Everett removed wave-function collapse and proposed a universe that never stops branching.
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Yitang Zhang
How Yitang Zhang proved bounded gaps between primes after years outside mathematical recognition.
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Robert Hooke
How Robert Hooke discovered cells, formulated elasticity and rebuilt experimental science.
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Gabriel Cramer
How Gabriel Cramer connected equations, determinants and algebraic curves in Enlightenment Europe.
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Arnold Sommerfeld
How Arnold Sommerfeld refined atomic theory and trained the physicists who created quantum mechanics.
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Gabriele Veneziano
How Gabriele Veneziano's particle formula opened an entirely new picture of nature.
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Ludwig Boltzmann
How Ludwig Boltzmann used atoms and statistics to explain heat, entropy and the hidden order of nature.
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Michael Faraday
How Michael Faraday's experiments transformed science and powered the modern world.
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Vikram Sarabhai
How Vikram Sarabhai transformed an ambitious dream into one of the world's greatest space programs.
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Chike Obi
How Chike Obi became Africa's first internationally acclaimed research mathematician.
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Ernst Stueckelberg
How Ernst Stueckelberg anticipated some of the greatest breakthroughs in modern theoretical physics.
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Henry Briggs
How Henry Briggs transformed logarithms into the world's greatest computational tool.
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Hendrik Casimir
How Hendrik Casimir discovered the mysterious force hidden inside empty space.
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Gilles Personne de Roberval
How Gilles Personne de Roberval quietly transformed mathematics long before history remembered his discoveries.
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Jost Bürgi
How Jost Bürgi revolutionized mathematical calculation while quietly changing the course of astronomy.
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Nikola Tesla
How Nikola Tesla's revolutionary inventions transformed civilization and changed the course of history.
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Nikolai Lobachevsky
How Nikolai Lobachevsky created a new geometry that forever changed mathematics and physics.
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János Bolyai
How János Bolyai created a new geometry and forever changed mathematics.
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Srinivasa Ramanujan
How Srinivasa Ramanujan transformed mathematics through pure intuition.
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Évariste Galois
How Évariste Galois solved a centuries-old problem before dying at just twenty years old.
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Niels Abel
How Niels Abel transformed mathematics before dying at only twenty-six.
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Rosalind Franklin
How Rosalind Franklin's meticulous science changed biology forever, despite history overlooking her contribution.
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Sofya Kovalevskaya
How Sofya Kovalevskaya overcame impossible barriers to change mathematics forever.
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Sophie Germain
How Sophie Germain overcame impossible barriers to transform mathematics.
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Lise Meitner
How Lise Meitner uncovered nuclear fission yet watched history overlook her achievement.
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Georg Cantor
How Georg Cantor shattered mathematics by proving infinity comes in different sizes.