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America 250: The Breakthroughs That Built American Science — Part 1 (EP 46)
Hosted by Lester Nare and Krishna Choudhary, this episode is part one of our July 4th America 250 special: a celebration of the scientific, technological, institutional, and cultural innovations that helped shape the United States into one of the most important scientific nations in human history.
For America’s 250th anniversary, we built an interactive timeline of the discoveries, inventions, institutions, and funding systems that enabled American science to grow from Benjamin Franklin’s experiments with electricity into the age of NASA, DARPA, Bell Labs, nuclear physics, molecular biology…
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