Alfred Nobel (October 21, 1833 – December 10, 1896) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, and philanthropist best known for inventing dynamite and for establishing the Nobel Prizes. His contributions to science and his dedication to promoting peace and humanitarian causes have had a profound impact on the world. Nobel is credited with inventing dynamite in 1867, which was a safer and more stable explosive compared to the nitroglycerin that was commonly used at the time. Dynamite had a wide ...
Aug 12, 2023•22 min•Season 1Ep. 16
The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur Wright, were American aviation pioneers who are credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful airplane. Their historic achievements in aviation marked a significant turning point in the history of transportation and technology. Orville Wright (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and Wilbur Wright (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912) were born in Dayton, Ohio. They shared a strong interest in mechanics and aviation from a young age. ...
Aug 10, 2023•23 min•Season 1Ep. 15
"Guilielmo Marconi," was an Italian inventor and electrical engineer known for his pioneering work in the field of wireless telecommunication. Marconi is often credited with the development of the radio and the establishment of the first transatlantic wireless communication. Born on April 25, 1874, in Bologna, Italy, Marconi came from a wealthy family and was encouraged in his interest in science and engineering. He conducted experiments with radio waves and wireless transmission, leading to his...
Aug 08, 2023•28 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Chief rocket engineer of the Third Reich and one of the fathers of the U.S. space program, Wernher von Braun is a source of consistent fascination. Glorified as a visionary and vilified as a war criminal, he was a man of profound moral complexities, whose intelligence and charisma were coupled with an enormous and, some would say, blinding ambition. This podcast delivers a meticulously researched and authoritative portrait of the creator of the V-2 rocket and his times, detailing how he was a ma...
Jun 22, 2022•33 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Vikram Sarabhai, the renaissance man of Indian science, visualized the impossible and often made it happen. Founder of India's space programme, Vikram dreamed of communication satellites that would educate people at a time when even a modest rocket programme seemed daring; of huge agricultural complexes serviced by atomic power and desalinated sea water. He envisioned research technology that would free Indian industry from foreign dependence, and of a world-class management college that would t...
May 17, 2022•20 min•Season 1Ep. 12
In terms of practical accomplishments helping to better the lives of people today, Madame Marie Curie far exceeds the achievements of any other modern or scientific person. Anybody who is in a hospital that uses an X-Ray machine is using technology developed by Marie Curie. Any cancer patient who is undergoing radiation treatment to prolong life is using a procedure discovered by Marie Curie. Anybody who turns on a light bulb in their house is likely using power from a nuclear power plant based ...
Apr 18, 2022•26 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Nicolaus Copernicus (19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance-era mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe, in all likelihood independently of Aristarchus of Samos, who had formulated such a model some eighteen centuries earlier.The publication of Copernicus' model in his book 'On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres', just before his death in 1543, was a major event in the history of ...
Apr 02, 2022•22 min•Season 1Ep. 10
"If they had seen what we see, they would have judged as we judge." - Galileo GalileiIn every age there are courageous people who break with tradition to explore new ideas and challenge accepted truths. Galileo Galilei was just such a man-a genius-and the first to turn the telescope to the skies to map the heavens. In doing so, he offered objective evidence that the earth was not the fixed center of the universe but that it and all the other planets revolved around the sun. Galileo kept careful ...
Mar 18, 2022•20 min•Season 1Ep. 9
The complete works of antiquity's great geometer appear here in this podcast. Remarkable for his range of thought and his mastery of treatment, Archimedes addressed such topics as the famous problems of the ratio of the areas of a cylinder and an inscribed sphere; the measurement of a circle; the properties of conoids, spheroids, and spirals; and the quadrature of the parabola. पुरातन काळातील उत्कृष्ट भूमापकाची संपूर्ण कामे या पॉडकास्टमध्ये आपणास एक येतील. त्यांच्या उच्च विचारांची श्रेणी आणि त्य...
Mar 07, 2022•28 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Louis Pasteur, a French biologist, microbiologist, and chemist, had made some remarkable discoveries in the field of science. He was the first scientist to create vaccines for fowl cholera; anthrax, a major livestock disease, and rabies. Pasteur was a French chemist and microbiologist born in Dole. He is remembered for his remarkable breakthroughs in the causes and preventions of disease. His discoveries reduced mortality from puerperal fever, and he created the first vaccine for rabies. His exp...
Feb 25, 2022•25 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Edison is sometimes regarded as someone who loved arguing with other inventors who were going in different directions from him, yet his tenacity and dedication to his own work were what made so many of his inventions workable.No matter which way you look at Edison, from failed businessman, renowned inventor, distant father to his children, or to an argumentative scientist, there is one thing everyone can agree on; Thomas Edison was pure genius. After all, in his world, nothing less would do.Begi...
Feb 08, 2022•33 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Johannes Gutenberg wasn't just an inventor. He was also a goldsmith, printer and publisher.One of the most puzzling lapses in accounts of the rise of the West following the decline of the Roman Empire is the casual way historians have dealt with Gutenberg's invention of printing. The cultural achievements that followed the fifteenth century, when the West moved from relative backwardness to remarkable, robust cultural achievement, would have been impossible without Gutenberg's gift and its subse...
Jan 28, 2022•19 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone. Bell's father, grandfather and brother had all been associated with work on elocution and speech and both his mother and wife were deaf, profoundly influencing Bell's life's work. His research on hearing and speech further led him to experiment with hearing devices which eventually culminated in Bell being awarded the first U. S. patent for the telep...
Jan 05, 2022•31 min•Season 1Ep. 4
In 1913, a young unschooled Indian clerk wrote a letter to G H Hardy, begging the preeminent English mathematician's opinion on several ideas he had about numbers. Realizing the letter was the work of a genius, Hardy arranged for Srinivasa Ramanujan to come to England. Thus began one of the most improbable and productive collaborations ever chronicled. Devout Hindu Ramanujan, "the Prince of Intuition," tested his brilliant theories alongside the sophisticated and eccentric Hardy, "the Apostle of...
Dec 21, 2021•25 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Jagadish Chandra Bose at a relatively young age, established himself among the ranks of European scientists during the heyday of colonial rule in India. He was one of those great Indian scientists who helped to introduce western science into India. A physicist, a plant electrophysiologist and one of the first few biophysicists in the world, Sir J C Bose was easily 60 years ahead of his time and much of his research that was ignored during his lifetime is now entering the mainstream. As the inven...
Dec 10, 2021•28 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Sir C.V. Raman was one of the rare Indians who excelled in a field which was in his time unexplored – Physics. He deserved the honour that India gave him by proclaiming him as the Bharat Ratna. A true Indian at heart; he made his country proud by relentlessly pursuing a belief that he had – that light scatters and changes in wavelength when it traverses a transparent material. This phenomena earned the name of Raman scattering and the result of the Raman effect. The Raman effect led to further r...
Dec 10, 2021•19 min•Season 1Ep. 1
