Beneath each of the technologies that have and continue to shape our world, we find multiple scientific discoveries and breakthroughs as their foundations. Behind each leap in medical understanding we find diligent scientists who have dedicated decades of their lives to things often microscopic and so abstract it’s difficult to imagine how their existence could affect our own.
Our modern world exists because a sufficient number of us were curious — so curious, in fact, that the world would be shaped by their inquiries of it, at all scales.
I’ve attempted to capture some small part of that vast pantheon of people whose research has shaped and changed our world.