FLASHCARDS! The Power of Diversity

Today’s three flash­cards look at three sci­en­tists whose work fun­da­men­tal­ly changed their fields. They worked in dif­fer­ent dis­ci­plines, lived in dif­fer­ent eras, and faced dif­fer­ent obsta­cles. What con­nects them is not sym­bol­ism or rep­re­sen­ta­tion. What con­nects them is that their dif­fer­ences expand­ed what sci­ence was able to see and solve. Sci­en­tif­ic progress rarely arrives because a com­mu­ni­ty agrees. It arrives because

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