The stories of science are those of people, with their ups and downs, and once in a while, maybe once in a lifetime, a discovery that can change everything.

In this first episode of *Chronicles of a Science Experiment*, EarthSky’s Jorge Salazar begins following Aaron Strickland, a Fellow of the National Science Foundation Discovery Corps and a post-doctoral chemist at Cornell University. Strickland’s research project is in nanotechnology, the science of the very small. In this first episode, we’ll look at the person inside the white lab coat, a young man with a wife, two kids and a passion for science.

Our thanks to Aaron Strickland, National Science Foundation Discovery Corps Fellow and Cornell University chemist. Carl Batt of Cornell created the concept for this program.

Made possible by the National Science Foundation