The People Behind The Curtain: The Lives And Works Of Great Scientists.

"I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something"

-- Richard P. Feynman

Time Magazine's 1961 "Men of the Year"
 featuring  15  U.S. scientists.

The reason why I think that science is so inaccessible to us is that scientists are, well, as far as the public thinks, tight asses. They seem so caught up in their work that everything else is just a distraction... and heaven forbid if you don't know as much as they do. There is anger, hateful emails, and enough scoffing in science that if someone had enough patience write down the emotional back-and-forths then hire a team of actors to read the lines you would end up with a pretty convincing soap-opera. Better yet, I'd like to think of the scientific community as a much more intelligent but equally as rude YouTube comment section. 

However, these scientists are people like us. They have human brains that can reason out very human things. There is nothing super about them. Everything that scientists have come to know, with a little work, we can comprehend as well . That is just what I intend to do.

 I figure that the best way to understand concepts that shape discoveries today is to understand the people who worked on these concepts, the pillars of science, the founding fathers. I want to tag along with them and stand next to the lab table as they make their careers. I would like to write about their eureka moments and what led them down that path.  This series will be about those who made everything possible. 

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This will take a lot of work, so I expect to make these infrequently, because I want to do these people justice.