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  1. Science is Knowledge and Knowledge is Power - A Discussion with Tony Benn (2005)

    Subject
    Politics & government; Science
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 32 minutes), £25.00

    In an interview with Sir Harry Kroto, former UK Minister for Science Tony Benn discusses the interaction between scientists and politicians. Benn, having spent a life-time as a leading politician closely...

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  2. Architecture of the Microcosmos (1998 Video)

    Director
    Anthony Howard
    Producer
    Murray Weston
    Subject
    Chemistry
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 59 min., 2000 sale: £25.00 (+VAT inc. p&p)

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  3. Life in Space (1996 Video)

    Director
    Peter Howell
    Producer
    Harold Kroto
    Subject
    Physics; Space science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1997 sale: £12.50 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    Helen Sharman, the UK’s first female astronaut, gives an account of her personal experiences of life in space, using models and film to illustrate the key scientific concepts involved in space flight....

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  4. States of Matter (1996 Video)

    Director
    Peter Howell
    Producer
    Harold Kroto
    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1997 sale: £12.50 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    John Murrell of the University of Sussex discusses the basic physical principles relating to the gaseous, liquid and solid states, using models and demonstrations. He notes phase changes and subtle features...

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  5. Bernal and the Social Function of Science (1996 Video)

    aka: Social Function of Science, The

    Director
    Peter Howell
    Subject
    Biology; Chemistry
    Distribution
    Sale

    Chris Freeman, the founder and first director of the Science Policy Research Unit, introduces John Bernal, the father of the protein crystallography techniques that enabled the double helix structure of DNA...

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  6. Flight in Birds and Aeroplanes (1996 Video)

    Director
    Peter Howell
    Subject
    Biology; Physics
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1997 sale: £12.50 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    John Maynard Smith describes the way flight developed in the animal kingdom: the fossil record indicates that the long tails which stabilised the flight of the first birds evolved into shorter, less stable...

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  7. States of Matter Pilot (1996 Video)

    Director
    Peter Howell
    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    REFERENCE ONLY, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min.

    John Murrell of the University of Sussex discusses the basic physical principles relating to the gaseous, liquid and solid states, using models and demonstrations. He notes phase changes and subtle features...

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  8. C60 Buckminsterfullerene, The Celestial Sphere That Fell to Earth (1995 Video)

    Subject
    Chemistry
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 2000 sale: £25.00 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    A Royal Institution Discourse in which Harold Kroto discusses the discovery of C60 buckminsterfullerene in 1985 in an experiment designed to unravel the carbon chemistry in Red Giant stars. The elegant cage...

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  9. Molecules with Sunglasses (1992 Video)

    Producer
    John Lynch
    Subject
    Chemistry
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    For thousands of years scientists knew of only two types of carbon: diamond and graphite. In 1990 a third form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene, C60, was discovererd and has revolutionised chemistry. Tells...

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