History of Science & Medicine
The people and breakthroughs behind modern medicine and science.
Marie Curie
She won two Nobel Prizes in two different sciences, drove X-ray machines to the front lines, and did it all in an era that barely let women into the lab.
Hippocrates
The most famous doctor in history may be as much a symbol as a person, and the oath with his name on it probably is not his.
Alexander Fleming and Penicillin
A messy lab, a summer vacation and a stray mold spore gave medicine its first mass-produced antibiotic, though it took other people to make it work.