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  1. Hodgkin. A Life in X-Ray Crystallography of Biological Materials. Dorothy Hodgkin O.M. Frs Talks to Professor Guy Dodson, 6 June 1990 (1990)

    Subject
    Biology; Chemistry

    Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin was awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1964 for her work using x-ray techniques to discover the structure of important biological substances, such as cholesterol, Vitamin...

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  2. Bartley. An Interview with Emeritus Professor Walter Bartley (1989)

    Subject
    Biology; Medical sciences

    Part 1 reviews the career of Walter Bartley, particularly his wartime work on scabies, night blindness, vitamin A and vitamin C deficiency, secondary shock, shipwreck survival, and the digestibility of the...

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  3. Cornforth. Sir John Cornforth Frs in Conversation with Prof. T.W. Goodwin Frs, 11 October 1989 (1989)

    Subject
    Biology

    John Warcup Cornforth and Vladimir Prelog jointly received the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1975 for their efforts to relate molecular structure to the properties of chemical compounds. Cornforth won his...

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  4. Blaschko. An Interview with Professor Blaschko (1988)

    Subject
    Biology

    Part 1 covers the life, education and experience of Hermann Karl Felix ‘Hugh’ Blaschko, until 1933 when he emigrated to England. In Part 2 Professor Blaschko discusses his activities and research at...

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  5. Life Cycle of the Tsetse Fly, The (1987)

    Director
    Douglas Fisher
    Subject
    Biology

    Several of the 22 species of testse found in central Africa carry the trypanosome parasites that cause African sleeping sickness in man and ngana in cattle and other domestic animals. The video presents the...

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  6. Khorana. Genetic Code and Gene Synthesis: Professor H. Gobind Khorana Frs Talks to Dr David S. Jones, August 1985. (1985)

    Subject
    Biology

    Gobind Khorana, joint Nobel Prize winner for medicine1968, talks about his early education in a village in rural India, his studies at Lahore University and the University of Liverpool, and later in...

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  7. Cries from the Deep (1981)

    Director
    Jacques Gagné
    Subject
    Biology; Geography

    This documentary records the journey undertaken by Jacques Cousteau, his 24-member team, and a NFB film crew to explore the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, one of the world’s richest fishing areas. They...

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  8. Royal Institution Christmas Lectures 1973: The Language of Animals (1973)

    Subject
    Biology

    David Attenborough’s lectures explore the complex world of animal communication. The series was filmed live at the Royal Institution between Friday 23 December 1973 and Friday 4 January 1974. Attenborough...

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  9. Experiments in the Revival of Organisms (1940)

    Director
    D. I. Yashin
    Subject
    Biology; Science

    Controviersial Soviet medical film showing Dr Sergei S. Bryukhonenko using mechanical resuscitation techniques to induce clinical death in a dog which is then revived. Part of the film shows a seemingly...

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  10. Conditioned Reflexes (1925)

    Director
    Vsevolod Pudovkin
    Subject
    Biology; Psychology

    Shows Pavlov’s animal work. Nerve system of a frog with orientative reflexes to external irritation, that continue to work after brain removal. The effect of exhibiting food on the salivary secretion of a...

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