Tim Harford joins Katie Hafner to introduce a side of Florence Nightingale that has been all but forgotten.
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How Mildred Weeks Wells figured out that disease-causing pathogens can spread through the air like smoke.
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A guest episode from Making Contact. In 1965 a young packaging designer called Margaret Crane had a brilliant idea. It took fifty years before she got the credit she deserved.
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