The Life Scientific
Summary: Each week, Jim al-Khalili invites a leading scientist to tell us about their life and work. He'll talk to Nobel laureates as well as the next generation of beautiful minds to find out what inspires and motivates them and what their discoveries might do for us.
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Podcasts:
Geneticist Veronica van Heyningen and her work on the gene which makes Darwin's Organ of Extreme Perfection - the eye.
Alf Adams FRS, physicist at the University of Surrey, had an idea on a beach in the mid-eighties that made the modern internet, CD and DVD players, even bar-code readers possible
Biologist Professor Anne Glover of Aberdeen University tells Jim al-Khalili about why she became the first scientific adviser in Scotland and then took on the same job in Europe.
Mark Miodownik talks nuclear weapons, 3D printers and smart materials to Jim Al-Khalili.
Jim Al-Khalili talks to psychiatrist Vikram Patel about the global campaign he leads to tackle mental health.
Forensic anthropologist Prof Sue Black talks to Jim Al-Khalili about the clues she uses to identify human bodies, and how crime writers are helping her raise funds for a new morgue
Peter Higgs tells Jim Al-Khalili the real story of the Higgs boson.
Professor Dame Wendy Hall, one of the pioneers of the world wide web and "hypermedia", talks to Jim Al Khalili about a life spent at the forefront of Web Science.
Jim Al-Khalili talks kangaroos and the death of the Y chromosome with Prof Jenny Graves
Jim Al-Khalili talks to neuroscientist Professor Sophie Scott about how brain imaging is revealing secrets of human speech and why laughter is such an important human social tool
Jim Al-Khalili discusses sci fi and popularising maths with Professor Ian Stewart.
Life on earth has gone through a series of mass extinctions. Mike Benton talks about his fascination with ancient life on the planet and his work on the Bristol Dinosaur Project.
Mark Lythgoe runs the largest medical imaging facility in Europe. He talks about coming to science late after failing his A Levels and why he enjoys collaborations with artists.
Joanna Haigh studies the influence of the sun on the earth's climate using satellites. She talks to Jim al-Khalili about her fascination with climate and how it is changing.
Russell Foster, Professor of Circadian Neuroscience at Oxofrd University, is obsessed with biological clocks. He talks to Jim al-Khalili about how light controls our wellbeing.
