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S1E18 Doctor who drank Bacteria, Cured Himself & Won Nobel
Imagine it is 1982, and a young physician is standing in a microbiology lab, staring at a Petri dish he nearly threw away. After more than 30 failed attempts to culture a mysterious bacterium, he is…
S1E17 Meet the Youngest & First Woman Dean of MIT
Imagine two black holes merging 1.3 billion years ago, releasing more energy in a single second than 4,000 suns release in their entire lifetimes. In 2015, the impossibly faint tremors of that…
S1E16 This Harvard Physicist is called next “Einstein”
In 2009, a sixteen-year-old girl flew solo in a single-engine plane she had built herself from 15,000 rivets and an engine she assembled outside her bedroom. Today, that same spirit of "audacious…
S1E15 Fred Ramsdell: Winner of Nobel in Medicine 2025
In the late 1990s, inside a lab in Washington, a small tragedy unfolded daily in a strain of "scurfy" mice whose immune systems were waging a relentless, fatal campaign against their own bodies.…
S1E14 Meet World's Smartest Physicist Alive
In the quiet woods of Princeton, New Jersey, there is a sanctuary where the ordinary rules of the world seem suspended. Here, at the Institute for Advanced Study, a tall man with hazy eyes walks the…
S1E13 John Martinis: Winner of Nobel 2025 in Physics
On an October morning in 2025, the telephone rang in the Santa Barbara home of John Clarke. On the line was the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences with news that would stun the physics world: Clarke,…
S1E12 He won the Nobel at just 33, then left Physics
This is the story of a man whose career seems to cleave in two. On one side is the Nobel-winning prodigy who revealed the "Josephson effect," a cornerstone of quantum reality. On the other hand is…
S1E12 Hannah Cairo: Fast Rising Star of Math World
In the world of higher mathematics, progress usually moves in inches, built upon decades of shared certainty. But on February 10, 2025, a 17-year-old student named Hannah Cairo published a paper that…
S1E11 Man who Solved World’s Toughest Math Problem, then Disappeared
In 1904, Henri Poincaré posed a riddle about the very fabric of our universe that would taunt mathematicians for a century. For decades, brilliant thinkers failed to solve it, and by 2000, a $1…
S1E10 How a Rebel Kid took Math World by Storm
Primes are the ultimate enigma of the universe, simple to define but stubbornly chaotic in their behavior. To most, they seem scattered randomly across the number line, but James Maynard has spent…
S1E9 Denied Funding, Promotions, She still won Nobel Prize
In late 2020, as a deadly virus swept the globe, the world pinned its hopes on a new class of vaccines that arrived in record time. While the headlines were filled with corporate names and political…
S1E8 Poet who won Most Prestigious Prize in Math
Most mathematicians are identified as prodigies by the time they can walk, but June Huh was different. A high school dropout who dreamed of becoming a poet, Huh didn't discover his calling until his…
S1E7 Michel Devoret: Winner Nobel 2025 in Physics
In 1985, a team of physicists in a Berkeley basement watched a tiny superconducting chip do the impossible: it performed a "quantum leap" that should have been restricted to the world of individual…
S1E6 From Refugee to Nobel Prize Winner
Imagine a material so porous that a single gram—the weight of a paperclip—could cover several football fields if unfolded. Now imagine using that material to pull clean drinking water out of thin air…
S1E5 First Woman to win Fields Medal, The Nobel of Math
From the bustling, book-lined streets of Tehran to the sun-drenched halls of Stanford, Maryam Mirzakhani didn't just solve equations, she painted them. In an office filled with sprawling sheets of…
S1E4 Meet Fastest Rising Young Stars of Physics
At just nine years old, Netta Engelhardt moved to a new country and picked up a book that would define her life: Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time. While most found it a challenging read, she…
S1E3 Shimon Sakaguchi: Winner Nobel 2025 in Medicine
In this episode of Mavericks of Science, we explore the story of Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi, the 2025 Nobel Prize winner, who resurrected a "dead" field of science to discover the immune system’s secret…
S1E2 Second Woman ever to win Nobel of Math
In this episode of Mavericks Science of, we dive into the extraordinary story of Maryna Viazovska, the Ukrainian mathematician who cracked the code of "perfect packing" in higher dimensions. Have you…
S1E1 Man who solved a Century Old Problem
Meet Hugo Duminil-Copin, the 2022 Fields Medalist whose groundbreaking work uncovered the precise rules that govern phase transitions in complex systems.What connects a melting ice cube, a spreading…
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