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Women Scientists Whose Contributions Were Recognised Late
Women Scientists Whose Contributions Were Recognised Late
by curious_compiler  • 
3 in common: Lise Meitner, Chien-Shiung Wu and 1 more
The history of science is full of women whose discoveries were credited to others, ignored or only properly acknowledged decades later. This list, in rough order of when the work was done, gives...
People
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Scientists Whose Notebooks Reveal How Discovery Happens
Scientists Whose Notebooks Reveal How Discovery Happens
by curious_compiler  • 
3 in common: Alexander Fleming, Rosalind Franklin and 1 more
Finished papers make discovery look tidy. Notebooks show the guesses, dead ends, crossings-out and conversations behind it. This list gathers scientists whose surviving notebooks, diaries and...
People
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People Whose Lives Make a Good Starting Point for Biography Readers
People Whose Lives Make a Good Starting Point for Biography Readers
by curious_compiler  • 
2 in common: Vera Rubin and Marie Curie
A good first biography gives you a person to follow and a wider world to explore. These lives offer routes into science, art, public life and business through specific, researched books. The...
People
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People Who Returned to Formal Education as Adults
People Who Returned to Formal Education as Adults
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: George Washington Carver
Leaving school early, dropping out or putting a degree on hold is not always the end of the story. These people went back to formal education as adults, sometimes decades later: a rock guitarist...
People
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Scientists Whose Careers Crossed Disciplinary Boundaries
Scientists Whose Careers Crossed Disciplinary Boundaries
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Rosalind Franklin
Some of the biggest advances in science came from people who walked into a field they were not trained in, carrying tools and questions from another: physicists who turned to genes, a...
People
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People Who Helped Others Achieve Their Best Work
People Who Helped Others Achieve Their Best Work
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Vera Rubin
A biography often follows the name on the cover, the stage or the discovery. These profiles follow another thread: the editor who asks a better question, the teacher who develops a skill, the...
People
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Scientists Who Helped Build New Research Institutions
Scientists Who Helped Build New Research Institutions
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Marie Curie
Laboratories, observatories and institutes do not appear by themselves. Someone has to raise the money, persuade governments, hire people and design a place where others can do their best work...
People
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People Who Changed How We Measure the World
People Who Changed How We Measure the World
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Marie Curie
A measurement becomes useful when other people can compare it, repeat it or understand its uncertainty. These are my choices across observation, practical standards and statistics: people who...
People
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People Who Made Collaboration Their Greatest Strength
People Who Made Collaboration Their Greatest Strength
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Marie Curie
Biographies love a lone genius, but many of the most influential careers were built in pairs and small teams. This list follows scientists, inventors, designers, writers, composers, filmmakers...
People
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US Presidential Elections That Realigned American Politics
US Presidential Elections That Realigned American Politics
by curious_compiler  • 
More from curious_compiler
Most presidential elections change who sits in the White House. A few change who votes for whom, and that new arrangement then holds for decades. These are the elections that did the second thing...
History
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Iconic Motorcycles Celebrated for Their Design
Iconic Motorcycles Celebrated for Their Design
by curious_compiler  • 
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These are the motorcycles people reach for when they talk about form. The test for a place was influence: a shape or layout that was widely recognized, copied by rivals or carried forward for...
Vehicles
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In Our Time Episodes to Start With
In Our Time Episodes to Start With
by curious_compiler  • 
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In Our Time is BBC Radio 4's weekly discussion program: one subject, three academic guests and about 45 minutes of conversation. Melvyn Bragg presented it from its first broadcast in October 1998...
Education
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Researchers Who Made Long-Term Observation Their Life's Work
Researchers Who Made Long-Term Observation Their Life's Work
by curious_compiler  • 
On a similar theme
Some discoveries only appear after decades of patient watching: a cycle in sunspots, a rising line of carbon dioxide, a chimpanzee family's changing fortunes. This list follows researchers who...
People
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People Who Combined Scientific and Artistic Careers
People Who Combined Scientific and Artistic Careers
by curious_compiler  • 
On a similar theme
A few people have done serious work in both a laboratory and a studio, judged by two sets of peers who rarely talk to each other. This list, roughly in date order, includes painters who invented...
People
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Researchers Who Built Essential Scientific Tools
Researchers Who Built Essential Scientific Tools
by curious_compiler  • 
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Many of science's biggest leaps came from someone building a better way to look, measure or copy, and then everyone else using it. This list follows the people behind instruments and methods that...
People
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People Who Changed How Science Records and Shares Knowledge
People Who Changed How Science Records and Shares Knowledge
by curious_compiler  • 
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Discoveries only matter once other people can find, check and build on them. This list follows the people behind the systems that make that possible: the first scientific journal, a naming scheme...
People
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Famous Murals Around the World
Famous Murals Around the World
by curious_compiler  • 
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A photo tour of the world's great painted walls, from a Roman villa near Pompeii to a stretch of the Berlin Wall painted in 1990. Each photo shows the mural itself, whole or in its defining...
Arts & Design
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