The Life Scientific: Explorers

The Life Scientific: Explorers
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Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : 9781474607490
ISBN-13 : 1474607497
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Book Synopsis The Life Scientific: Explorers by : Anna Buckley

Download or read book The Life Scientific: Explorers written by Anna Buckley and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2018-09-27 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspiring life stories from BBC Radio 4's hit series The Life Scientific '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.


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