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Cast of scientist characters 1750-1900:
Air to Breathe — Benjamin Franklin / Luigi Galvani (and his wife) / Antoine Lavoisier (and his wife) / Gottfried Leibniz / Isaac Newton / Joseph Priestley // What the Battery Did for Rocks — Jacob Berzelius / Humphry Davy / Michael Faraday / Hans Christian Ørsted / Alessandro Volta // Rowan and the Poets — Carl Friedrich Gauss / William Rowan Hamilton // The Difference Family Makes — Charles Darwin / James Clerk Maxwell / Gregor Mendel / Louis Pasteur / P.G. Tait / William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) / Charles Wheatstone // Women of Stars and Higher Degrees — Maria Mitchell / Ellen Swallow (married name Richards, and her husband) / Mary Watson Whitney // Pride, Towering and Electric — using Sir William Thomson as its throughline (hat tip to his dad) / Thomas Edison / George FitzGerald / Joseph Fourier / Oliver Heaviside (and his brother Arthur) / Heinrich Hertz / Oliver Lodge / Albert Michelson / Edward Morley / Charles Steinmetz / Nikola Tesla // Finding Hidden Noble Neon — Emily Aston / Robert Bunsen / Gustav Kirchhoff / Norman Lockyer / Dimitri Mendeleev / William Ramsay / John Strutt (Lord Rayleigh) // Einstein Finds Light in Charge of Time — Albert Einstein / Hendrik Lorentz // A Social Scientist Shows People How to See People — W.E.B. Du Bois (for social science until 1910) / Thomas Hunt Morgan / Gustav von Schmoller (for social science) / special mention for social workers Jane Addams and Julia Lathrop of Hull House
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Once, when my daughter wasn’t much older, tucked in but desperate for a stay on bedtime, she asked “Dad, I was wondering if you could tell me how gravity works?” So I set her easel with the chalkboard next to the bed and gave her a little bedtime lecture on gravity. https://t.co/RdcL3WM7OF
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