He stashed a mother scorpion and her babies in a matchbox on the mantelpiece. His brother reached for a cigarette and found the family. A species of kestrel was down to four birds in the wild when Gerald Durrell decided to care about it. There are now around a thousand. The champion of small uglies.

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Happy birthday to Wilhem Röntgen (1845-1923), the German physicist who discovered x-rays and earned the Nobel Prize for physics in 1901. I’ve depicted him in this thermochromic portrait at work, studying this mysterious, newly discovered, invisible form of light, based on a photograph of him in his lab, using a Crookes tube to produce x-rays. The form of the print mimics the nature of his discovery - 🧵
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🎥 Mary Somerville: The first person to be called a scientist

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Born on a prison cell floor. Twice widowed by forty. Built a warship larger than Ottoman law allowed, then bribed the inspector to call it a merchant vessel. Laskarina Bouboulina spent nearly her entire fortune on a war she started herself — the woman who didn't wait for permission.

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