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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- Artist: BBC Radio 4
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Podcasts:
2012 Nobel Prize winner, John Gurdon on cloning a frog decades before Dolly the sheep and why, in future, he would consider cloning humans.
Jim Al-Khalili talks to Jared Diamond about his journey from the gall bladder to global history via a passion for the birds of Papua New Guinea.
As the NASA robot, Curiosity, starts to analyse rocks from the Martian surface, Jim al-Khalili and Monica Grady discuss whether the evidence for life on Mars will ever add up.
Jim Al-Khalili interviews Professor Hugh Montgomery about the gene for fitness and how mountaineers have influenced intensive care medicine.
Jim Al-Khalili talks to the next chief scientific advisor to the government, Sir Mark Walport.
Jim Al-Khalili meets Professor Sunetra Gupta a novelist and a scientist who studies infectious diseases and says a mathematical equation can be as beautiful as a Keats poem
Jim Al Khalili interviews Professor David Nutt about his research into using psychedelic drugs to treat depression
Jim Al-Khalili discovers why Andrea Sella's volatile chemistry demonstrations are filling theatres.
Jim Al-Khalili meets Professor Richard Dawkins, evolutionary biologist and writer of The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion.
Jim Al-Khalili discusses silent aircraft with Cambridge engineer, Dame Ann Dowling.
Jim goes under the Antarctic ice with glaciologist, Martin Siegert to explore one of the most remote and extreme environments on earth, Lake Ellsworth. Will they find life?
Jim Al-Khalili talks to Pat Wolseley about her obsession with lichen and a nationwide project to involve ordinary people in the gathering of scientific data about nature.
Geneticist Steve Jones lives life in the slow lane studying snails. Jim Al-Khalili discovers what they can tell us about natural selection.
Jim Al-Khalili meets John Pickett, whose recent work on GM crops caused a public debate.
Jim al-Khalili talks to the former chief scientific advisor, Robert May about the power of mathematics and his work to restore public trust in science.
