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James Cook: Voyages That Changed the Map of the World
Cover image: Le Petit Atlas Maritime, 1764, by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin., public domainA Restless Boy from YorkshireSelf-Education and the Making of a NavigatorFrom War Hero...
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Marie Curie: Science, Sacrifice, and the Cost of Discovery
Marie Curie: Early Life in Russian-Occupied PolandEducation and the Dream of ScienceThe Secret University and Political ActivismMarie Curie at the SorbonneMarie Curie marriage with...
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History
The Wright Brothers: The Story Behind the First Powered Flight
Cover image: John T. Daniels, public domainOtto Lilienthal and the Dream of Human FlightWho Were the Wright Brothers?Early Life and Entrepreneurial SpiritThe Bicycle Shop...
Physics
Discovery of the neutron: How did James Chadwick prove his theory?
Cover image: Inductiveload, public domainThe State of Atomic Physics Before the NeutronDiscovery of radioactivityThe gold foil experiment and the discovery of the atomic nucleusDiscovery...
Physics
The Stern-Gerlach Experiment: How a Simple Test Revealed the Electron Spin
Cover image: Marcin Białek, licensed under CC BY 3.0.The Stern-Gerlach Experiment: Setup and PredictionsExperimental Results: Two Beams Instead of ThreeUhlenbeck and Goudsmit: The Path to...
Chemistry
Mendeleev and Gallium: How Theory Predicted the Unknown
Cover image: Foobar, licensed under CC BY 3.0.The Discovery of Gallium by Paul Emile Lecoq de BoisbaudranThe chemical element with atomic number 31 was officially...
History
Henry Ford: The first moving assembly line
Cover image: SnapMeUp, licensed under CC BY 4.0.One warm rainy night in June, in the year 1896, Clara Ford heard a terrible hammering noise from...
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Marie Curie: Science, Sacrifice, and the Cost of Discovery
Marie Curie: Early Life in Russian-Occupied PolandEducation and the Dream of ScienceThe Secret University and Political ActivismMarie Curie at the SorbonneMarie Curie marriage with...
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Vasco da Gama: The First Sea Route to India
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Cover image: Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, public domainVasco da Gama Early Life and EducationThe First Voyage to India (1497–1499)Preparation and Departure from LisbonCrossing the Atlantic...
James Cook: Voyages That Changed the Map of the World
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Cover image: Le Petit Atlas Maritime, 1764, by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin., public domainA Restless Boy from YorkshireSelf-Education and the Making of a NavigatorFrom War Hero...
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