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Discover the elements, reactions and breakthroughs that revealed how matter behaves and transforms.
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A reaction once dismissed as impossible revealed how lifeless chemistry can keep time, form waves and organize itself.
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How a search for the secret of glowing jellyfish produced one of the most powerful tools in modern biology.
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Biography
How John Goodenough created the cathode that made rechargeable lithium-ion batteries practical.
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How Otto Hahn's radiochemical evidence revealed nuclear fission and changed world history.
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How Irène Joliot-Curie synthesized radioactive elements and transformed nuclear medicine.
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How Lars Onsager discovered hidden reciprocal laws governing heat, diffusion and chemical change.
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How Robert Boyle used air pumps, measurement and skepticism to transform the study of matter.
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How Dmitri Mendeleev uncovered the hidden order of chemistry through the Periodic Table.
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How Marie Curie discovered the invisible force that transformed the modern world.
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How Richard Ernst transformed NMR and made modern molecular structure analysis possible.