Alan Turing and Christopher Strachey created a ground-breaking computer program that allowed them to express affection vicariously when so doing publicly, as gay men, was criminal.

David Bohm and Hugh Everett were once ostracized for challenging the dominant thinking in physics. Now, science accepts their ideas, which are said to enrich our understanding of the universe.

Will outside-the-womb gestation, increasingly viable for animal embryos, lead to a feminist utopia? Or to something like Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World?

Inge Lehmann was the seismologist and mathematician who figured out what the Earth's core was actually made of.

A 1955 obituary of Turing from the Royal Society is fascinating for what it leaves out of the first draft of history.