Wallace is recognised alongside Darwin as the co-discover of natural selection, the mechanism that makes evolution possible. Wallace was eventually to reject his own discovery in relation to the evolution ... Read more

At the age of twenty-four Kurt Gödel published two academic papers which overturned two thousand years of assumptions in the world of mathematical logic, ended the aspirations of a generation ... Read more

When James Murphy asked Albert Einstein to write an introduction to a book containing Max Planck’s essays in 1932, Einstein initially refused, stating that it would not be fitting for ... Read more

For the man who went to a chapel and consulted with God before accepting the role, the Human Genome Project was more than a scientific endeavour. For Francis Collins, the ... Read more

“I obtain incredible peace and joy from my prayer. Compared to others, I receive a thousand times more fulfilment from my prayer” James Jeans, quoted in M.W. KhanOne May evening ... Read more

“Science is beautiful. It deserves to be loved for itself, as it is a reflection of God’s creative thought.” – Lemaitre’s address on returning to Louvain University after receiving the ... Read more

On May the 29th 1919 groups of locals gathered on the island of Principe in the Bight of Benin off the West African coast glancing towards the darkening sky, as ... Read more

Donald Knuth gained numerous epithets, among them “the world’s greatest computer scientist”, the “father of algorithm analysis”, and “the yoda of silicon valley.” His major work, the multi-volume Art of ... Read more