March 2026

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Helpful Iconoclasts: Hippasus of Metapontum (irrationals), Copernicus, Vesalius (Anatomy), Galileo, Newton, Lavoisier (chemistry), Darwin, Semmelweis (handwashing), Snow (cholera), Pasteur, Mendel (genetics), Maxwell (EM waves), Boltzmann (statistical thermodaynamics), Tesla, Einstein, Wegener (continental drift), Goddard (rocketry), Shannon (information theory), Mitchell (ATP chemiosmosis), McClintock (transposon genetics), Mullis (PCR), Shechtman (quasicrystals), Dillehay (Clovis not first), Jenkins (Clovis not first), Marshall (ulcers), Venter (human genome), and Musk.