Small wonders

Jean-Henri Fabre was a scientist whose life work was about insects from his early days as a teacher who made a startling new discovery about beetles and baby wasps, through his years consumed with investigating and writing about the wonders of insect life. After years of being perceived by a hermit, but sticking to his passion for the wonders of bug life, he received an unexpected honor: unanimous agreement from France s leading scientists that he be nominated for the Nobel Prize.