Dr Shane Bergin
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581 appearances
6 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 10 Sep
Dr Shane Bergin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And perhaps the most interesting of the carbon molecules is benzene.
It's a ring.
But what wasn't known at the time she was doing her research was how did it look?
you know, in a three-dimensional chemical world, what kind of shape did it have?
What kind of things could you then do with it?
So that's the work she did.
And she discovered that benzene is a flat molecule.
And from that, we were able to develop plastics.
We were able to develop drugs, able to understand the complexities of organic material, things that are made up out of carbon.
A whole new topic in science opened up because of her interesting work.
Absolutely.
She was born in Newbridge but like almost many of the women in this story she had to go to England and to Britain to get her education and to do her work but she's a remarkable Irish scientist.
Let's move to the awfully woman Mary Ward who I think quite a few more people will have heard of.
Yeah, unfortunately, Mary Ward is well known because she's said to be the first person ever to be killed by a mechanical vehicle, which is incredible.
In 1869, she was unfortunately thrown from a steam powered car, effectively.
and was killed.
But she led a remarkable life up to that point.
She was a naturalist interested in nature, a microscopist.
So she worked with microscopes, an astronomer and an illustrator.
And she was an awfully woman.
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