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Einstein
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Curie


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Rutherford


Look for episodes starring these scientists in the future!

Archimedes
Aristotle Galileo
Newton
Faraday
du Chatelet
Gamow Hawking
Darwin
Watson & Crick
Feynman
Pythagoras
Lorenz (1903-1989)
Austrian ethologist
Lawrence
Greene
Randall
Yalow
Meitner
Delbruck
Pauling
Carson
Copernicus/Kepler
Mendel
Mendeleyev
Wieman
Michelson 
Bohr 
Maxwell and his demon
Cornell
 
By his ingenuity and narrative skills, Gamow is able to transform the puzzling and obscure mysteries of physics into magical and enthralling stories. It was Mr. Tompkins who made the new physics vivid and real for me as a child and I am sure that he will continue to do the same for a great many others.


~Roger Penrose, winner of the Albert Einstein Medal