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Leading intellectuals in the fields of history, philosophy and science35 Who Made a Difference: D. A. Henderson
Eradicating one of history's deadliest diseases was just the beginning
November 01, 2005 |
By Robin Marantz Henig
35 Who Made a Difference: Wes Jackson
In Kansas, a plant geneticist sows the seeds of sustainable agriculture
November 01, 2005 |
By Craig Canine
35 Who Made a Difference: Robert Langridge
His quest to peer into the essence of life no longer seems so strange
November 01, 2005 |
By Terence Monmaney
35 Who Made a Difference: Richard Leakey
The leader of the Hominid Gang asks what he can do for his continent
November 01, 2005 |
By Virginia Morell
35 Who Made a Difference: Mark Lehner
He took the blue-collar approach to the great monuments of Egypt
November 01, 2005 |
By Alexander Stille
35 Who Made a Difference: Jane Mt. Pleasant
Iroquois tradition plus Western science equals a more sustainable future
November 01, 2005 |
By Gary Paul Nabhan
35 Who Made a Difference: Clyde Roper
He's spent his life chasing a sea monster that's never been taken alive
November 01, 2005 |
By Richard Ellis
35 Who Made a Difference: Edward O. Wilson
Vindicated for his controversial sociobiology? Yes. Satisfied? Not yet
November 01, 2005 |
By Robert Wright
35 Who Made a Difference: Tim Berners-Lee
First he wrote the code for the World Wide Web. Then he gave it away
November 01, 2005 |
By Tom Standage
The Year Of Albert Einstein
His dizzying discoveries in 1905 would forever change our understanding of the universe. Amid all the centennial hoopla, the trick is to separate the man from the math
June 2005 |
By Richard Panek
The Stubborn Scientist Who Unraveled A Mystery of the Night
Fifty years ago, Eugene Aserinksy discovered rapid eye movement and changed the way we think about sleep and dreaming
October 2003 |
By Chip Brown
Kon Artist?
Though evidence against his theory grew, Kon-Tiki sailor Thor Heyerdahl never steered from his course
July 2002 |
By Richard Conniff
Wittgenstein's Ghost
When two philosophers nearly came to blows, they defined a debate that rages a half century later
April 2002 |
By Paul Trachtman
I Was a Teenage Shaker
In Sprigg's 25-year career as a scholar of American Shaker culture, she has written ten books, organized a major exhibition on Shaker design and served as curator of collections at the Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
April 2001 |
By Smithsonian magazine
Master of the Deep
Before Smithsonian scientists do underwater research, Michael Lang makes them seaworthy.
March 2001 |
By Michael Kernan
The Bone Collectors
A pair of biologists on Cumberland Island save the remains of dead sea critters for others to study
February 2001 |
By T. Edward Nickens
Portraits of Her People
Historian, photographer and Macarthur "genius," Deborah Willis documents the black experience
December 2000 |
By Michael Kernan
A Wizard's Scribe
Before the phonograph and lightbulb, the electric pen helped spell the future for Thomas Edison
August 1998 |
By Bruce Watson
What a difference the Difference Engine made: from Charles Babbage's calculator emerged today's computer
The incredible world of computers was born some 150 years ago, with a clunky machine dreamed up by a calculating genius named Charles Babbage
February 1996 |
By Edwards Park
