Meet the Unsung Heroes of Science
Browse all our videos to discover who history has forgotten and uncover the stories missing from the textbooks.
Here you can watch all 116 shortlisted and winning videos from the Unsung Heroes of Science competition since 2019. They’re organised in alphabetical order by the name of the unsung hero – make sure you go all the way to the bottom to discover your favourite and remember to share what you find.
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Abbas Ibn Firnas
Abdus Salam
Abdus Salam
Ada Lovelace
Alan Turing
Alhazen
Alison Mary Smith
Al-Zahrawi
Alfred Russell Wallace
Alice Ball
Alice Ball
Alice Ball
Annie Jump Cannon
Antoine Lavoisier
Arthur Tyndall
Brahmagupta
Caroline Herschel
Caroline Herschel
Casimir Funk
Cecilia Payne-Gaposhkin
Cecilia Payne Gaposhkin
Cecilia Payne Gaposhkin
Chien Shiung Wu
Claude Bernard
Dorothy Hodgkin
Eldering, Gordon & Kendrick
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Elsie Widdowson
Emil du Bois-Reymond
Emmy Noether
Emmy Noether
Esther Lederberg
Eunice Newton Foote
Eunice Foote
Eunice Newton Foote
Eunice Newton Foote
Flossie Wong-Staal
Gerty Cori
Gertrude Elion
Gottfried Leibniz
Hedy Lamarr
Hedy Lamarr
Henrietta Lacks
Henrietta Lacks
Henrietta Swan Leavitt
Henrietta Swan Leavitt
Henrietta Swan Leavitt
Hertha Ayrton
Honor Fell
Howard Florey & Ernst Chain
Howang Lee
Ignaz Semmelweis
Ignaz Semmelweis
Ivan Getting
James Clerk Maxwell
James West
Jane Cooke Wright
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
John Ray
John Stewart Bell
Joseph Lister
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
Katharine Burr Blodgett
Katherine Johnson
Lewis Latimer
Lise Meitner
Lise Meitner
Lise Meitner
Lise Meitner
Lise Meitner
Margaret Hamilton
Maria Manasseina
Maria Telkes
Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier
Marie Maynard Daly
Marie Maynard Daly
Martinus Beijerinck
Mary Anning
Mary Golda Ross
Mary Sherman Morgan
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Mikhail Tsvet
Muriel Wheldale
Narinder Singh Kapany
Narinder Singh Kapany
Nettie Stevens
Nettie Stevens
Nettie Stevens
Nils Bohlan
Noel Rose
Oswald Avery
Patricia Bath
Patricia Bath
Patricia Bath
Phil McCrory
Rachel Carson
Reiji Okazaki
Rick Strassman
Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin
Sofya Kovalevskya
Sophie Germain
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Sushrata
Suzanne Lee
Tapputi Bellatikllim
Thomas Midgley Jr
Tu You You
Valery Legasov
Vera Rubin
Yellapragada Subbarao
Yellapragada Subbarao