Srinivasa Ramanujan, a self-taught Indian mathematician, is renowned for his extraordinary contributions to number theory. Here’s a fascinating account of his journey: Ramanujan was born in 1887 in Erode, India. Growing up,…
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Kekulé’s dream
August Kekulé, a German organic chemist, is famous for his work on the structure of benzene. Here’s how he arrived at it: Kekulé was struggling to understand the structure of benzene, a…
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Is it crazy enough?
I have heard a true story, as told by Freeman Dyson… A few months ago, Werner Heisenberg and Wolfgang Pauli believed that they had made an essential step forward in the direction…
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How Joseph Fourier discovered the greenhouse effect
That’s Maths: French physicist’s study of heat conduction led him to analyse why Earth was so warm. Joseph Fourier’s idea that the Earth’s atmosphere acts like an insulator is the first formulation…
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Louis Pasteur: A short story
This short story is quite interesting to all the people. Enjoy reading this story. Mary had just returned from school. She was thirsty. “Mary, you can have a cup of milk,” called her…
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Thomas Edison and the light bulb
Let there be Light! Historians agree that Thomas Edison was not the inventor of the electric light bulb, but he did produce the first commercially viable one. Earlier, light bulbs were experimented…
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Men of mettle
Russian physicist and future Nobel Prize winner, Pyotr Kapitsa, when he was young, was on exchange in the Rutherford laboratory (in Chilton, Oxfordshire, UK). After the term was over, he wanted to…
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The man with big ears, and big dreams that took India to the moon
Aug 11, 2019: On August 12, 1919, a baby boy was born in the home of Ahmedabad’s leading textile mill-owner; his siblings looked at him and declared he had big ears, “just…
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Lithium-ion battery inventor introduces new glass electrolyte technology for fast-charging, noncombustible batteries
2017: At the age of 57, John B. Goodenough invented the lithium battery which powers all our smart phones, tablets and laptops – as well as electric cars. 37 years later at…
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Darwin’s black box
A black box is a whimsical term used in science to describe something whose inner workings are mysterious, either because they cannot be seen or because they’re just incomprehensible. Charles Darwin’s black box was the cell.…