Listen "Making the Micropipette"
Episode Synopsis
The micropipette, an instrument favored by researchers around the world to measure and move liquids from one container to another and used for everything from forensic analysis to DNA sequencing, was invented by an obscure, 32-year-old German postdoc after a particularly productive two-day tantrum. This is the story of how it came to be.
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