Each episode page carries a synopsis, the structures of every compound discussed, pictures of each chemist with a link to their Wikipedia entry, and the complete bibliography behind the script.
An introduction to the podcast series.
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.