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
I loved to spend time in the library at JPL, going through the old newsletter called Lab Oratory. It was there that I came across a small article about a subculture sci-fi author who worked in computing.