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Science History
Smallpox: A Nightmare That (Probably) Won’t Return
The disease that killed hundreds of millions of people in the 20th century alone and apparently destroyed whole civilizations in the new world.
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Science History
The greatest scientist
Over 150 years from Marie Curie’s birth, the radioactivity pioneer is still the only person to ever win two Nobel Prizes for different scientific fields
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Science History
The Man, Electricity, and the USA
The scientist and founding father: Benjamin Franklin's 313th birthday
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Science History
The Physicist Who Bridged Size Differences
Yoseph Imry, a mesoscopic physics pioneer, has passed away
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Science History
The Chemist Who Arose from the Ashes
Marking 31 years since the death of Primo Levi, an Auschwitz survivor who became one of the most prominent Holocaust writers
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Science History
The First Israeli Computer
We take pride in being “the startup nation”. It all began with the WEIZAC computer at the Weizmann Institute of Science
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Science History
On this Day: The Maritime Bridge to India
147 years to the inauguration of the Suez Canal, probably the largest and most important engineering project of the 19th century
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Science History
The Brilliant Rocket Scientist to Come Before His Time
134 years since the birth of Robert Goddard, the father of rocket science, who was never really taken seriously
