Smart Tea Podcast

NEW EPISODE! Did you know the man who discovered E. coli was not a bacteriologist, but in fact a renowned pediatrician? Join us in episode 67 as we dive into the life of Theodor Escherich, from his highly successful carrer to the tragic death of his son. www.smartteapodcast.com/theodor-esch...

NEW EPISODE! Can a splash of ink really reveal secrets about your inner soul? Aarati tells the story of the psychiatrist behind the inkblot test and how art, emotion, and psychology came together in one of history’s most iconic tools. www.smartteapodcast.com/hermann-rors... #inkblot #rorschach

NEW EPISODE! This week we are covering the story of Clyde Tombaugh, the farmer turned astronomer who discovered Pluto! Listen now wherever you get your podcasts! www.smartteapodcast.com/clyde-tombaugh

NEW EPISODE! It's never too late to do what you love! Ynes Mexia, started her scientific career at the age of 51. We chat about her life in Mexico before becoming a botanical collector, traveling to jungles, mountain peaks, and rivers to find unique plants. www.smartteapodcast.com/ynes-mexia

#onthisday we celebrate the birthday of Alice Ball, the young black scientist who had her work in finding a treatment for leprosy stolen and her story forgotten for decades. Listen to episode 5 of the Smart Tea podcast to hear her full story, now streaming! www.smartteapodcast.com/alice-ball

NEW EPISODE! Lynn Conway lost her career at IBM, her wife, children and friends when she came out as trans. Despite this, she restarted her life in California, contributing to the Silicon Valley boom and changing computers forever. Episode 63, now streaming! www.smartteapodcast.com/lynn-conway

NEW EPISODE! Today's podcast explores the story of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, inventor of ....you guessed it! This "Crazy" Count's thirst for adventure revolutionized air travel. Listen to episode 62 of the Smart Tea podcast, now streaming! www.smartteapodcast.com/ferdinand-vo...

NEW EPISODE! This week on the Smart Tea podcast, we cover the life of Dr. Roger Tsien, a scientist who shared the Nobel prize for fluorescent proteins. Take a shot every time we mention the Nobel Prize (or maybe just a sip of water. Please drink responsibly 😅) www.smartteapodcast.com/roger-tsien

Dr. Virginia Apgar was born #OTD 125 years. Inventor of the "Apgar score," she joined @marchofdimes.org and contributed to research on prematurity and birth defects. "There's plenty of room in science and medicine for women" - #MedSky + #HistorySky. www.youtube.com/watch?v=umJc...

1/ Charles R Drew was born 3 June 1904 in Washington DC, USA. An African-American physician and surgeon, Drew specialised in blood transfusion. He helped improve techniques for blood storage and the development of large-scale blood banks in the early part of the Second World War.

NEW EPISODE! NEW EPISODE! 🌈 Happy #PrideMonth !🌈 For this episode of the Smart Tea podcast, we cover the story of Dr. Alan Hart, a transgender doctor who made breakthroughs in detecting early-stage tuberculosis using x-rays. www.smartteapodcast.com/alan-hart

NEW EPISODE! We talk about the life of Dr. Henry Beecher, who made key observations about the placebo effects and changed the way we think about bioethics and set up clinical trials. Listen to episode 59, now streaming! www.smartteapodcast.com/henry-beecher

NEW EPISODE! Dr. Carlos Finlay was the first to propose that a mosquito could be a vector for tropical diseases like yellow fever. We talk about his life story, from growing up as a child in Cuba to becoming an "international" doctor. Ep. 58 is now streaming! www.smartteapodcast.com/carlos-finlay

Happy birthday to Eugenie Clark, The Shark Lady! She was a marine biologist who swam with sharks and showed people how smart they were. Listen tobher life story on episode 41 of the podcast! www.smartteapodcast.com/eugenie-clark

NEW EPISODE! In honor of #EarthDay, we are coving the story of Dr. John Goodenough, a Nobel Prize laureate who helped develop lithium ion batteries. From laptops, to cell phones, to electric cars, lithium-ion batteries are everywhere! Listen now! www.smartteapodcast.com/john-goodeno...

Happy #WorldQuantumDay! Check out this episode on the story of Dr. Elmer Imes, the physicist who proved that the rotational and vibrational energy states of molecules can be quantized. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

Dr. Tetsuya "Ted" Fujita, (a.k.a. Mr. Tornado) was able to solve the case of a mysterious plane crash in 1975, just by studying the wreckage and recreating the thunderstorm that caused it. Listen to Dr. Fujita's life story on ep 56 of the podcast, now streaming! www.smartteapodcast.com/ted-fujita

NEW EPISODE! Aarati tells the story of Dr. Ted Fujita, who escaped two atomic bombs, moved to the US to study severe storms, made air travel safer for millions, and gave us a scale to quantify tornados. What a life! www.smartteapodcast.com/ted-fujita

The highly anticipated PART 2 of Dr. Alice Stewart's story is now streaming! We cover her life after retirement and her fight for nuclear facility workers against the DOE for a safe work environment and fair compensation for workers families. #womenshistorymonth podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

5,000+ downloads on podcast streaming platforms and 3,100+ views on Youtube! We are well on our way to 10,000 listens. Thank you to all our listeners for tuning in to hear the funny, depressing, wacky and inspiring life stories of scientists who have changed our world! www.smartteapodcast.com

NEW EPISODE! Dr. Alice Stewart discovered the link between prenatal X-rays and childhood leukemia. This episode, we dive into her life and career up until her retirement from Oxford... and then she did so much afterwards, we had to make a part 2 (coming soon!). www.smartteapodcast.com/alice-stewart

NEW EPISODE! Stress affects men and women differently (no surprise there!). Kiara Rodríguez-Acevedo, a Ph.D. candidate at the UPenn explains to us how she is working to link estrogen levels in the brain to stress vulnerability and resilience. #womeninstem www.smartteapodcast.com/kiara-rodrig...

Check out episode 49 of the Smart Tea Podcast for Ludwig Boltzmann’s life story podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

NEW EPISODE! In honor of Black History Month and with Valentine's day near, Vivien Thomas's story is the perfect intersection. He was a Black carpenter who became indispensable to one of the top surgeons in the nation in the 1930s-50s. Listen to the story here: www.smartteapodcast.com/vivien-thomas

Happy birthday to Guy Callendar, who figured out human activity was causing Earth’s climate to change by gathering and analyzing data at home(Episode 9), and Wilson Bentley, the snowflake man, whose beautiful photographs showed us a world of ice crystals (episode 24)!

The first scientific paper highlighting the observed rise in global temperatures was in 1938. By me! And I also linked the observed warming to the rise in CO2 levels in the atmosphere, building on the earlier theoretical work. We have known all this for soooo long.

Happy birthday to Russian #chemist Dmitri Mendeleev (1834 – 1907) who published the periodic table. 🧪🐡 #histsci Born in Siberia, the youngest child of a large family, his father was a school principal until he lost his sight & job. His mother then restarted her family’s abandoned glass factory 🧵

In this week’s episode, it’s 1918 and a young Katharine Burr Blodgett joins future Nobel Prize winner Irving Langmuir at The General Electric Company’s industrial research laboratory in Schenectady, N.Y. It’s the start of her brilliant career.

NEW EPISODE! We sit down with Andrew Robertson (@andrew-antdude.bsky.social) winner of the #myscijourney competition hosted by @galacticpolymath.com. Dive into the remarkable world of ants and learn how complicated these tiny creatures are! Listen now www.smartteapodcast.com/andrew-rober...

It's episode 50! Aarati tells the story of the temperamental Russian chemist who figured out a way to organize all the known (and unknown) elements into a table that ordered them by increasing atomic weight and grouped them into categories. www.smartteapodcast.com/dmitri-mende...

NEW EPISODE! Sneaking in one more before the end of the year and wrapping up our series on #thermodynamics physicists. Dive into the fascinating and tragic life of Ludwig Boltzmann, the man who redefined entropy! #sciencepodcast #phsyics www.smartteapodcast.com/ludwig-boltz...

NEW EPISODE! Our December Thermodynamics Extravaganza continues with the story of Dr. Rudolf Clausius, the physicist who defined the first 2 laws of thermodynamics: 1) energy is conserved and 2) entropy is always increasing. Listen to his story, now streaming! www.smartteapodcast.com/rudolf-claus...

NEW EPISODE! Sadi Carnot was a young French scientist who designed the most perfect )albeit theoretical) stem engine. He is known as the Father of Thermodynamics! Check out his full life story here www.smartteapodcast.com/sadi-carnot

New episode! This week we are discussing Dr. Virginia Apgar, the obstetric anesthesiologist who came up with a way to assess the health of newborns. The number of lives she has touched is incalculable! Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or here! www.smartteapodcast.com/virginia-apgar

Happy birthday to Hedy Lamarr! Check out her story on episode 8 of the Smart Tea podcast! www.smartteapodcast.com/hedy-lamarr

Episode 21 of the Smart Tea podcast covers the life and science of Wilhelm Rontgen! Now streaming wherever you get your podcasts www.smartteapodcast.com/wilhelm-ront...

NEW EPISODE! With holiday travels approaching, this week's podcast episode is about Charles Goodyear, the inventor of vulcanized rubber. His life was SO difficult but his invention literally changed the world. Episode 45 now streaming! #goodyear #podcast #stem www.smartteapodcast.com/charles-good...

Check out episode 4 for Dr. Patricia Bath’s life story! www.smartteapodcast.com/patricia-bath

Happy Bat Appreciation week! And let's not forget Dr. Donald Griffin, the ultimate bat enthusiast who figured out how bats use echolocation to navigate. Listen to his full story, now streaming wherever you get your podcasts www.smartteapodcast.com/donald-griffin

NEW EPISODE! In the spirit of Halloween, this week on the Smart Tea podcast we peek into the life of Dr. Donald Griffin, the animal behaviorist who coined the term "echolocation" for how bats are able to use sound to navigate. www.smartteapodcast.com/donald-griffin

Happy birthday to Alfred Nobel! His life was fascinating, from his invention of dynamite to founding the Nobel Prizes! Listen to his full life story in the very first episode of the podcast! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Her work on tamoxifen transformed breast cancer treatment, yet Dr. Dora Richardson’s name faded from history. / Su trabajo transformó el tratamiento del cáncer de mama, pero el nombre de la Dra. Dora Richardson casi se perdió. lostwomenofscience-v2.webflow.io/spanish-podc...

Happy National Fossil day! It’s the perfect day to check out episode 2 of the podcast about the life of the eccentric scientist, William Buckland, who discovered the first dinosaur fossil. www.smartteapodcast.com/william-buck...

NEW EPISODE! This week we are diving into the life of Dr. Alfred Binet, one of the psychologists who developed the very first IQ test. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts! www.smartteapodcast.com/alfred-binet

The Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine has been awarded to Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi, who discovered that regulatory T cells help the immune system determine which cells are invaders that need to be eliminated and which cells are our own! www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...

Happy birthday to James Lind, the naval doctor who figured out that eating citrus fruit could cure scurvy! Listen to his full story in episode 39 of the Smart Tea podcast. Now streaming wherever you get your podcasts! #onthisday www.smartteapodcast.com/james-lind

"I do know that when talking to people who perhaps think very differently, the only chance you have of getting them to think in a different way is to touch the heart." — Dr. Jane Goodall (1934-2025) Thanks, Jane, for touching our hearts.

NEW EPISODE! 🌍 It's #NYCW2025 and we wanted to add the hope and optimism this week by coving the story of Dr. Mario Molina. He, along with Drs. Sherwood Rowland and Paul Crutzen, won the Nobel Prize for discovering that CFCs were depleting the ozone layer. www.smartteapodcast.com/mario-molina

Happy birthday to Roxie Laybourne, the first forensic ornithologist! Her work in aviation saved countless lives (bird and human alike). Listen to her full story in episode 31 of the podcast! www.smartteapodcast.com/roxie-laybou... #onthisday #womeninscience

NEW EPISODE ALERT! Join us as we take a deep dive into the life of Dr. Eugenie Clark, a.k.a. The Shark Lady! 🦈 #sciencepodcast www.smartteapodcast.com/eugenie-clark