The Science Life: Scientific method acting

Mayim Bialik is a neuroscientist, and she plays one on TV. Bialik is neurobiologist Amy Farrah Fowler on CBS’s The Big Bang Theory, a sitcom centered on the lives of four scientists at Caltech.

Neuroscientist Mayim Bialik (left) slices a brain over dinner with costar Jim Parsons in The Big Bang Theory.