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H. Bentley Glass was at one time one of the most famous scientists in the nation. His life was a journey that began with missionary parents and a Texas education. Glass traveled the world, wrote ...

An 8,000-acre nature preserve in the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta — one of the most biodiverse places on Earth — will be named for one of Alabama’s most famous scientists: E.O. Wilson. The Nature ...

There’s a strange irony in the history of the atomic bomb: the most famous scientist on Earth, the man whose equation unlocked the very possibility of nuclear energy, wanted absolutely nothing to do ...

Albert Einstein’s journey to becoming the most famous scientist in history was far more difficult than most people realize. For nearly a decade after graduation, no university would hire him — not ...