I just finished watching the first season of the AMC television series Breaking Bad. The series chronicles the life of a high school chemistry teacher Walter White who learns that he has terminal lung cancer and who then turns to the production and sale of methamphetamine to hopefully create an inheritance for his teenage son [...]

Tags: American Scientists, Periodic Table

As the Nineteenth Century drew to a close scientists puzzled over the nature of light.  the Scotch scientist, James Clerk Maxwell established that light was an electromagnetic wave that , and waves need a medium in which to propagate. If one tosses a stone into a pond, the water ripples out in waves from the [...]

Tags: American Scientists, History of Science