How Jabir Ibn Hayyan became the Father of Modern Chemistry
Jabir ibn Hayyan recognised that experiments were important to science and transformed the spiritual practice of alchemy into what would now be known as modern chemistry.
Ignaz Semmelweis: The Hungarian Doctor beaten to death for promoting Handwashing
Ignaz Semmelweis struggled for years to promote his... ground-breaking handwashing policies but was beaten to death in 1865. He was just 47.
A History of the Atomic Theory: From Democritus to Schrödinger
For the next 2000 years, the world depended on the theories of Democritus and Aristotle, until John Dalton came up with the Modern Atomic Theory in 1808.