Fritz Haber: Nobel Chemist Who Fed Billions and Pioneered Gas Warfare
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Fritz Haber may be the ultimate human paradox. The German chemist who learned to pull nitrogen f...
1 Loka 21min
Frederick Cook: Polar Explorer, Fake Summit, and Fraud
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Dr. Frederick Cook saved the life of Roald Amundsen and discovered a real Arctic island, yet he ...
1 Loka 21min
Frank Sinatra: Hoboken Grit, Comeback, and the Danger Behind the Voice
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Frank Sinatra entered the world as a 13.5-pound baby whose forceps delivery left scars on his fa...
1 Loka 22min
Fela Kuti: Afrobeat, the Kalakuta Republic, and Defiance
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1977, a battered Fela Kuti carried his mother's coffin to the gates of Nigeria's military rul...
1 Loka 23min
Ibn al-Haytham: Father of Optics and Pioneer of the Scientific Method
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Summoned to dam the Nile by the volatile Fatimid caliph al-Hakim, the engineer Ibn al-Haytham re...
1 Loka 24min
Enrico Fermi: Neutrinos, Fission, and the First Nuclear Reactor
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1923, a young Enrico Fermi joked that whoever figured out how to release the energy in E=mc² ...
1 Loka 24min
Rocky Marciano: How an Undersized Heavyweight Went 49-0
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Rocky Marciano first laced up gloves in the army to get out of kitchen duty, and his real dream ...
1 Loka 20min
Diocletian: The Roman Emperor Who Walked Away to Grow Cabbages
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!What kind of ruler gains absolute power over the Roman world and then gives it up to tend a vege...
1 Loka 26min
