physics
The ones who rewrote the equations and signed their name as a worm.
The Man Who Saw With His Ears
What does geometry sound like when you can only hear it described?
The Second Television
Paul Dirac's colleagues measured his speech in a unit they invented: one word per hour.
The Woman Who Warmed the World
She discovered that carbon dioxide traps heat in 1856, and then history erased her name for 154 years.
The Woman Who Discovered Climate Change from Her Seat
She discovered the greenhouse effect in 1856, then sat in the audience while a man read her paper aloud because women weren't allowed to present their own work.
The Man Who Listened to Plants Die
In 1895, a scientist invented radio components he refused to patent, then built a machine that recorded the exact moment a plant died.
The Worm Who Rewrote Physics
The four equations that power every phone on Earth were written by a man who lived on granite blocks and signed his letters W.O.R.M.