Heroes of Progress Archives - HumanProgress

Heroes of Progress, Pt. 52: Yuan Longping

September 07, 2022

Bill Gates: Software and Philanthropy | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 50

August 12, 2022

Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace: Early Computing | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 49

Frederick Douglass: Abolitionism | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 48

Damadian, Lauterbur, and Mansfield: MRI Machines | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 47

Mary Astell and Mary Wollstonecraft: Feminism | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 46

John Snow: The Father of Epidemiology | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 45

James Madison: Father of the U.S. Constitution | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 44

Heroes of Progress, Pt. 51: Frederick McKinley Jones

Desiderius Erasmus: Toleration and Peace | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 43

Vasili Arkhipov: The Man Who Prevented a Nuclear War | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 42

John Stuart Mill: Freedom | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 41

Jeremy Bentham: Founder of Utilitarianism | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 40

February 25, 2022

Charles Dotter and Andreas Gruentzig: Angioplasty | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 39

January 31, 2022

Cesare Beccaria: The father of modern criminal justice | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 38

January 12, 2022

James Elam & Peter Safar: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 37

December 17, 2021

Wilson Greatbatch: First implantable pacemaker | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 36

December 03, 2021

Enrico Fermi: World’s first nuclear reactor | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 35

November 15, 2021

Heroes of Progress: Norman Borlaug (Lesson Plan)

November 12, 2021

Alan Turing: Cracking the Nazis’ “Enigma” code | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 34

November 12, 2021

Hitchings and Elion: Drug design | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 33

October 15, 2021

Benjamin Rubin: Bifurcated needle | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 32

September 17, 2021

Willem Kolff: Kidney dialysis | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 31

September 09, 2021

Sir John Harington: Flushable toilet | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 30

September 09, 2021