The Man Who Weighed the Earth and Cleaned the Air: Clair Cameron Patterson 1922–1995

Clair Cameron Patterson was the Iowa-born geochemist who first calculated the true age of the Earth, then spent the next three decades proving that leaded gasoline was poisoning every human alive. This episode traces how one man’s obsession with precise measurement toppled an industry and quietly saved millions of lives.

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