The Life Scientific: Explorers
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PRODUCT OVERVIEW
- ISBN 9781474607483
- Categories 3rd Qt, [2024], Biographies and Memoirs, BX, BXOS, H/C, New Arrivals OS, NF BIO, Non-Fiction, SELECTX
- Author(s) Anna Buckley
- Publisher Orion Publishing Group
- Pages 336
- Format Hardcover
- Dimensions 14.7cm x 2.8cm x 22.6cm
- Weight 0.46 kg
product description
Inspiring life stories from BBC Radio 4's hit series The Life Scientific
A Sunday Times Science Book of the Year 2018
'In showing non-scientists why science offers so many paths to discovery it has no equal' Gillian Reynolds, Telegraph
Based on Jim Al-Khalili's ground-breaking interviews, The Life Scientific: Explorers takes science out of its box and introduces us to the men and women who make it happen.
The explorers featured in this volume include: Michele Dougherty, the mathematician who persuaded the Cassini mission to Saturn to make a diversion; Richard Fortey on his love of trilobites; Monica Grady, Meteorite Lady; neurosurgeon Henry Marsh on slicing through our thoughts; the Director of the British Antarctic Survey, Jane Francis; Jocelyn Bell Burnell describing how she missed out on a Nobel Prize; Brian Cox on quantum mechanics; and Nobel Prize winner John Sulston on why he thought it would be a good idea to sequence the human genome.
