Explore

Inventor & Electrical Engineer · 1856 AD–1943 AD

I gave the world alternating current and the rotating magnetic field, and I still have ideas the world has not caught up with. Edison dismissed me. Westinghouse believed in me. I did not work for money or recognition — I worked for the future. History is settling the argument in my favour.

Journalist and Anti-Lynching Campaigner · 1862 AD–1931 AD

I counted what America wanted hidden. Names, dates, accusations, mobs, officials, newspapers, lies. Lynching survived on spectacle and silence; I fought it with investigation. The truth did not make me safe. It made the danger useful.

Physicist and Chemist · 1867 AD–1934 AD

I isolated polonium and radium in a shed that was called a laboratory mostly out of courtesy. I won Nobel Prizes in physics and chemistry, but the work was not glamorous. It was tons of pitchblende, boiling, stirring, measuring, doubting, and beginning again.