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November 20, 2018

Nicholas Johnson on Elsie Wright

November 20, 2018

Eli Mrkusich on Eugenics

November 20, 2018

Maria Roitman on Wilhelm Reich

November 20, 2018

Dr. Gary Hime on Giovanni Aldini

November 20, 2018

Richard MacEwan on The Nature Of Villainy

Dr Pam Rana

October 14, 2018

Dr Pam Rana on Perfection

Ella Loeffler

October 14, 2018

Ella Loeffler on Sylvia Earle

Ryan Jefferies

October 14, 2018

Dr. Ryan Jefferies on Leonardo Da Vinci

Connor McMahon

October 14, 2018

Connor McMahon on Clement Wragge

October 14, 2018

Dr Chris Lassig on Chien – Shiung Wu

September 20, 2018

Associate Professor Megan Munsie on Sir John Gurdon

September 20, 2018

Rohan Long on Frederic Wood Jones

September 20, 2018

Mark Nikolic on Galileo Galilei

September 20, 2018

Dr Lynette Plenderleith on Grace Olive Wiley

September 20, 2018

Ben Mackenzie on Veronica Megler

Ben Francischelli

August 13, 2018

Ben Francischelli on Mary Anning

David Nuthall

August 13, 2018

David Nuthall on Elizabeth Loftus

Julian O'Shea

August 13, 2018

Julian O’Shea on Arthur Eddington

Kiri Beilby

August 13, 2018

Kiri Beilby on Christopher Polge

Idan Ben Barak

August 13, 2018

Idan Ben Barak on Max Von Pettenkoffer

Jess Moir

July 17, 2018

Jess Moir on Ruth Benedict

Jacquie Milner

July 17, 2018

Jacquie Milner on Frank Rowland and Mario Molina

Mitch Alexander

July 17, 2018

Mitch Alexander on Rene Descartes

Ben Vezina

July 17, 2018

Ben Vezina on Dr Heng Li

June 19, 2018

Arjun Chahal on Franklin, Watson and Crick

June 19, 2018

James Hutson on Beatrix Potter

June 19, 2018

Alanta Colley on Jane Goodall

June 19, 2018

Edward Brelsford on Albert Einstein

May 13, 2018

Dr Rowan Brookes on David Whyte

May 13, 2018

Matthew Snelson on Henrik Dam

May 13, 2018

Dr Freda Werdiger on Joseph B Keller

May 13, 2018

Elizabeth Flux on William of Ockham

May 13, 2018

Dr Aaron Wagen on George Robert Price

February 7, 2018

Associate Professor Gretchen Benedix on Sally Ride

February 7, 2018

Dr Sarah Marley on and David Attenborough and Gerald Durrell

February 7, 2018

Josh Richards On Alexey Leonov

February 7, 2018

Rocky McGellin on Arthur C Clarke

February 7, 2018

Dr Aaron Cavosie on Eugene M Shoemaker

February 7, 2018

Lisa Stinson on Margaret Crane and the Home Pregnancy Test

January 23, 2018

Arjun Chahal on John Romulus Brinkley

January 23, 2018

Nicholas J Johnson on James Randi and James Macdonell

January 23, 2018

Tomas Kalincik on Werner Forssmann

January 23, 2018

Associate Professor David Beattie on Alfred Nobel

January 23, 2018

Rangi De Silva on James Marion Sims

October 19, 2017

Tim Young on Niels Bohr and the Disappearing Nobel Prize

October 19, 2017

Professor Lyn Beazley on Pat Kailis

October 19, 2017

Dr Mark Harvey on Joseph Chamberlin

October 19, 2017

Hannah Etchells on Dr Max Day

October 6, 2017

Dr. Emma Moloney on Dr. Virginia Apgar

October 6, 2017

Nathan Eizenberg on Lewis Fry Richardson

October 6, 2017

Phoebe Lewis on Theo Colborn

October 6, 2017

Luke Morris on Dom Pérignon and the production of champagne

September 28, 2017

Dr. Clare Hampson on Satoshi Nakamoto & Bitcoin

September 28, 2017

Professor Gary Hime on Etienne Geoffroy Saint – Hilaire

September 28, 2017

William Bevens on Theranos & Elizabeth Holmes

September 28, 2017

Sarah Charnaud On Ronald Ross

September 28, 2017

Rohan Long On Baron Franz Nopcsa

September 28, 2017

Dr. Meredith King On Tycho Brahe

September 28, 2017

Simon Cropper on Charles Stromeyer III & Patti Smith

September 28, 2017

Samuel Mills on Oliver Sacks

September 28, 2017

Dr Viviane Richter on Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek

September 25, 2017

Professor Karin Verspoor on Suzanna Lewis

September 25, 2017

Dr Aaron Wagen on Jean-Martin Charcot

September 25, 2017

Alice Brandli on Linda Buck and Richard Axel

September 25, 2017

Sophie Burgess on Sir David Attenborough

September 24, 2017

Matthew Snelson on Kary Mullis

September 24, 2017

Toni Stevens on William Thomson

September 24, 2017

Annette Jacobsen on Alexandre Yersin

September 24, 2017

Tom Lang on Jack Parsons

September 23, 2017

Jessica Moir on Katherine Boyle

September 23, 2017

Laura Cook on Tyrone Hayes

September 23, 2017

Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston on Michael Faraday

September 23, 2017

Bel Smith on Colonel John Paul Stapp

September 21, 2017

Dr Steve Muhi on the father of bacteriology, Dr Robert Koch

September 4, 2017

Matthew McArthur on William Bruce Speirs

September 4, 2017

Stephen Luntz on John Dobson

August 29, 2017

Mei Liu on Hedy Lamarr

August 28, 2017

Kate Cranny on flies, dung beetles and Dr George Bornemissza

November 12, 2016

Claire Sullivan on Margaret Howe Lovatt

November 12, 2016

Anna Sexton on Julius Wagner-Jauregg

November 12, 2016

Nicholas J. Johnson on Charles Dawson

November 12, 2016

Dr Erica Sloan on Hubert Rodney Withers

October 13, 2016

Professor Ian Wanless on Eliyahu Rips

October 13, 2016

Stuart Burns on Fritz Haber

October 13, 2016

Jessica Snir on Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov

October 13, 2016

Mitch Alexander on Sam Harris

October 12, 2016

Tom Lang on Tu Youyou

October 12, 2016

Dani Measday on Karl and Delia Akeley

October 12, 2016

Matthew Snelson on Dr Funk

October 12, 2016

Daniel Matthews on Betrand Russell

October 11, 2016

Danny Stinson on Sir Richard Doll

October 11, 2016

Simon Liubinas on Walter Freeman II

October 11, 2016

Alanta Colley on Marie Stopes

October 11, 2016

Sean Elliott on The Machine

October 11, 2016

Dr Tatiana Hitchen on Louis Pasteur

September 3, 2016

Lauren Bok on Elon Musk

September 3, 2016

Dr Maddie Jones On Jon Snow

September 3, 2016

Matthew Sypeck on Rudolf Virchow

September 3, 2016

Nicole Dominado on Craig Venter

September 3, 2016

Nick Irving on Charles S. Myers

September 1, 2016

Owen Collins on Robert Fortune

September 1, 2016

Dr Anna He on Marie Curie

September 1, 2016

Angus McAndrew on Andrew Wiles

September 1, 2016

Raphael Luber on Christiaan Barnard

September 1, 2016

Sophia Frentz on Joan Wiffen

August 31, 2016

Alanta Colley on Alfred Russel Wallace

August 31, 2016

Arjun Chalal on Henrietta Lacks

August 31, 2016

Dr Andrew Baldi on Ernest Irons

August 31, 2016

Lynette Plenderleith on Georges Cuvier

August 31, 2016

Chris Lassig on Dr Ronald Mallett

November 24, 2015

Josh Richards on Dr Wernher Von Braun

November 24, 2015

Danny Stinson on Sidney Gottlieb

November 24, 2015

Dr George Aranda on Victor Frankenstein

November 24, 2015

Dr Gregory Crocetti on Felix D’Herelle

November 24, 2015

Tom Lang on Edward Teller

October 30, 2015

Jacquie Milner on Graham Blow

October 30, 2015

Prasanna Sritharan on Sir Joseph Bazalgette

October 30, 2015

Tessa Smith on Carl Linnaeus

October 30, 2015

Dr Dave Carmody on Emil Kraepelin

October 30, 2015

Matthew Selinske on Aldo Leopold

October 4, 2015

Dani Measday on Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope

October 4, 2015

Dr Vanessa Wong on Justus von Liebig

October 4, 2015

Sean Elliott on Henry Moseley

October 4, 2015

Mel Mackenzie on Andrew Keith Jack

October 4, 2015

Richard MacEwan on the sources of his inspiration

September 15, 2015

The Gaussian Ensemble performs Gaussian Rhapsody

September 15, 2015

The Gaussian Ensemble performs Cauchy-craft

September 15, 2015

Dr Chris Lassig on Thomas Young

September 15, 2015

Dr Clare Hampson on John Hunter

September 15, 2015

Dr Katie Mack on Emmy Noether

September 15, 2015

Dr Teresa MacDonald on the invention of the obstetric forceps

September 15, 2015

Dr George Aranda on Robert Hooke and his Micrographia

July 26, 2015

Josh Richards on Sally Ride

July 26, 2015

Bentley Bird on Meg Lowman

July 26, 2015

Jack Scanlan on Barbara McClintock

July 26, 2015

Alanta Colley on Marie Stopes

July 26, 2015

Dr Anita Ponsaing on Ada Lovelace, Charles Babbage and the Analytical Engine

June 20, 2015

A/Prof David Beattie on William Ramsay

June 20, 2015

Tom Lang on Thomas Midgley

June 20, 2015

Dr Padraig O Cathain on James Joseph Sylvester

June 20, 2015

Cobi Smith on public health heroes

June 20, 2015

Charlie Marshall on Lyn Margulis

May 16, 2015

Prof Ian Wanless on Leonhard Euler

May 16, 2015

Sean Elliott on Jocelyn Bell Burnell

May 16, 2015

Dr Anthony Mays on Voltaire and Madame du Chatelet

May 16, 2015

Molly Clemens on Edward Osborne Wilson

May 16, 2015

Dr Mark Gregory on the unsung heroes of research

Mathematician Dr Sarada Herke tells the story of her science hero

April 19, 2015

Dr Sarada Herke on Sal Khan

Astrophysicist Emily Petroff tells the story of biologist Jacques Monod

April 19, 2015

Emily Petroff on Jacques Monod

Mathematician Dr Michael Wheeler tells the story of physicist Richard Feynman

April 19, 2015

Dr Michael Wheeler on Richard Feynman

Scientist shares the story of his science hero, anatomist and geologist Nicolas Steno

April 19, 2015

Ben Vezina on Nicolas Steno

Sharing the stories of science history science event Melbourne

April 19, 2015

Dr Heather Sheard on Vera Scantlebury Brown

The Laborastory science event Melbourne

November 23, 2014

Dr Ryan McMullan on Edgar Pask

Storytelling science event in Melbourne

November 23, 2014

Dr Daniel Horsley on Georg Cantor

Science event Melbourne The Laborastory

November 23, 2014

Dr Melanie Archer on Justin Schmidt

Nick Connellan at the science storytelling event in Melbourne

November 23, 2014

Nick Connellan on Nikola Tesla

Stephen Luntz telling the story of his science hero

November 23, 2014

Stephen Luntz on Kevin Budden

Telling stories of science at The Laborastory

November 2, 2014

Sean Elliott on Wildman Whitehouse

November 2, 2014

Cobi Smith on Rachel Carson

Chris Lassig tells the story of theoretical physicist Edward Teller

November 2, 2014

Dr Chris Lassig on Edward Teller

November 2, 2014

Dr George Aranda on Louis Agassiz

November 2, 2014

Simon McKenzie-Nickson on Andrew Wakefield

September 28, 2014

Dr Burkard Polster on Martin Gardner

September 28, 2014

Dr Nick Beaton on Chinook

September 28, 2014

Dr Ramona Muttucumaru on Robert Koch

September 28, 2014

Dr Alex Dunn on Lionel Logue

September 28, 2014

Dr Jan de Gier on Isaac Newton

July 24, 2014

Dr Krystal Evans on Dora Lush

July 24, 2014

Dr Christina Guo on William Beaumont

July 24, 2014

Dr James Carter on Graeme Clark

July 24, 2014

Noon Silk on Daniel J. Bernstein

July 24, 2014

Dr Marion Anderson on a tireless field geologist

June 13, 2014

Dr Dave Gonsalvez on Mondino de Liuzzi

June 13, 2014

Kate Cranney on Harriet and Helena Scott

June 13, 2014

Dr Neil MacDonald on August Bier

June 13, 2014

Prasanna Sritharan on Eadweard Muybridge

June 13, 2014

Tom Lang on Michael Faraday

May 19, 2014

Ben McKenzie on Hedy Lamarr

May 19, 2014

Sarah Nagorcka on Gertrude Elion

May 19, 2014

Dr. Hossein Mokhtarzadeh on leaders vs managers

May 19, 2014

Gil Rind on Thomas Midgley

May 19, 2014

Natalie Sims on John Belchier

April 9, 2014

Chris Ward on John Harrison

April 9, 2014

Jen Morris on William Morton

April 9, 2014

Dr Melanie Thomson on David Unaipon

March 26, 2014

Evan Howard on Apsley Cherry-Garrard

March 26, 2014

Assoc/Prof Ros Gleadow on Michael E. Mann

March 26, 2014

Dr Nick Beaton on Paul Erdős

March 26, 2014

Dr Alan Duffy on Guillaume Le Gentil

March 26, 2014

Alex Cullen on Philo Farnsworth

November 17, 2013

Liam Ryan on Thomas Edison

November 17, 2013

Sarah Nagorcka on Albert Hofmann

November 17, 2013

Andrew Watt on Robert J. White

November 17, 2013

Carleton Coffrin on Ted Kaczynski and Henry Murray

November 17, 2013

Jen Morris on Dr William Stark

October 23, 2013

Dr Colin Hales on Thomas Kuhn

October 23, 2013

Prof Tony Klein on Augustin-Jean Fresnel

October 23, 2013

Simon McKenzie-Nickson on Carl Sagan

October 23, 2013

Dr Alasdair McAndrew on Gerolamo Cardano

October 23, 2013

Dr Katie Mack on Stephen Hawking and her real science hero

September 11, 2013

Upulie Divisekera on Erwin Schrödinger

September 11, 2013

Prof. James Harland on Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman

September 11, 2013

Belinda Nicholson on Ruby Payne-Scott

September 11, 2013

Dan Nicholls on Lise Meitner

September 11, 2013

Preethi Rupanagudi on Daniel Kahneman

Dr Clare Hampson shares the story of Robert Knox

August 12, 2013

Dr. Clare Hampson on Doctor Robert Knox

August 12, 2013

Prof. Tony Guttmann on Norbert Wiener

August 12, 2013

Camilla Battistuzzo on Santiago Ramon y Cajal

August 12, 2013

Dr. Meng Wai Woo on Nicolas Carnot

August 12, 2013

Kristijan Jovanoski on Srinivasa Ramanujan

July 20, 2013

Dr Tony Wirth on Steve Jobs

July 20, 2013

Dr Teresa MacDonald on Rhesus Autoimmunity

July 20, 2013

Dr Alana Bruce on Ignaz Semmelweis

July 20, 2013

Professor Graham Farr on William Thomas Tutte

July 20, 2013

Joe Dreyfus on Professor Alvin Roth

June 30, 2013

Ben McKenzie on Mary Anning

June 30, 2013

Dave Kaplan on Hodgkin & Huxley

June 30, 2013

Rachel Neumann on John Maynard Keynes

June 30, 2013

Jack Scanlan on Thomas Hunt Morgan

June 30, 2013

Dr Sam Fiorenze on Sir Macfarlane Burnet

Sharing science history at The Laborastory

May 30, 2013

Upulie Divisekera on Fleming and Curie

Mathematician Norman Do sharing the story of Galois

May 29, 2013

Dr Norman Do on Évariste Galois

May 29, 2013

Dr Sam Lieblich on Bud Craig

Dr Clare Hampson shares the science story of George and Mary Papanicolaou

May 29, 2013

Dr Clare Hampson on George and Mary Papanicolaou

Computer Scientist Carleton Coffrin sharing his science hero's story

May 6, 2013

Dr Carleton Coffrin on Alan Turing

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