Each episode page carries a synopsis, the structures of every compound discussed, and the complete bibliography behind the script.
Perhaps the first great experimental chemist. Priestley’s careful work uncovered oxygen and carbon dioxide — and foreshadowed ecology.
Newton’s apple, Galileo’s whisper, Franklin’s kite — and the myth of Wöhler’s urea synthesis as the origin story of organic chemistry.
The famous dream, re-examined — and the last remark of Kekulé’s that chemists should not overlook.
Pasteur separates enantiomers, van ’t Hoff and Le Bel give carbon a shape, and Kolbe loses his temper.
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