Alison Butler: The Scientist Who Fell in Love with Colors, Iron, and the Deep Sea
There’s a story Alison Butler tells about preschool. She couldn’t stop playing with the magnets and the iron filings. She kept pulling them apart, pushing them together, watching how they moved. The teacher probably wanted her to sit still. Alison just wanted to know why the filings did that. Decades later, she’s a Distinguished Professor…