From Loom to Lucasian: The Isaac Milner Story

From a weaver’s apprentice to Cambridge’s Lucasian Professor, Isaac Milner fused math genius, chemical innovation, and devout faith. He advanced ammonia oxidation to nitric acid—a breakthrough with wartime implications—while challenging the phlogiston theory and helping lay groundwork for thermodynamics. This episode unpacks his restless curiosity, his controversial faith debates at Cambridge, and how one man’s ideas helped reshape science and the university.

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