Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud (1856 to 1939) was an Austrian neurologist who founded psychoanalysis, a revolutionary and controversial approach to understanding the…
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Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin (1920 to 1958) was a British scientist whose work was crucial to discovering the structure of DNA, the molecule of heredity. Long…
The Human Genome Project
The Human Genome Project was a landmark international effort to map all of the genetic information in a human being. Completed in 2003 after more…
Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall (born 1934) is a British primatologist whose groundbreaking study of wild chimpanzees transformed our understanding of animals and of…
Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan (1934 to 1996) was an American astronomer and science communicator who did more than almost anyone to bring the wonder of the cosmos to…
Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking (1942 to 2018) was a British theoretical physicist who became one of the most famous scientists of his time, renowned for his work on…
Aristotle
Aristotle (384 to 322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher and scientist whose work shaped Western thought for two thousand years. He wrote on an…
Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei (1564 to 1642) was an Italian astronomer, physicist, and engineer, often called the father of modern science. By insisting on…
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin (1809 to 1882) was an English naturalist whose theory of evolution by natural selection transformed our understanding of life. He…
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton (1642 to 1727) was an English mathematician and physicist, widely regarded as one of the greatest scientists who ever lived. His…
International Space Station
The International Space Station, or ISS, is a large spacecraft in orbit around the Earth that serves as a home and laboratory for astronauts. The…
Katherine Johnson
Katherine Johnson was an American mathematician whose precise calculations of orbital mechanics were critical to the success of the United States'…
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance whose range across art and science has made his name a byword for genius. Born in…
The Atom
The atom is the basic building block of ordinary matter, the smallest unit of a chemical element that retains its properties. Everything you can see…
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla was an inventor and electrical engineer best known for his pioneering contributions to the alternating current electrical system that…
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein was a German born theoretical physicist widely regarded as one of the greatest scientists of all time. Born in 1879 in Ulm, he…
Marie Curie
Marie Curie was a Polish born physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity, a term she coined. Born Maria Skłodowska in…
Electricity
Electricity is the flow and presence of electric charge, one of the fundamental forces of nature and the power source of the modern world. From the…