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Nobel Laureate Arthur Kornbert, Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry at Stanford University, talks about the importance of basic, untargeted research to the future of medicine and health care in the United...
Terence Brown, Professor of Anglo-Irish Literature at Trinity College Dublin, lectures on the young W B Yeats, focusing on two of the writer’s preoccupations - work and sexuality.
Richard Feynman’s 1964 lecture to Caltech undergraduates entitled ‘The Motion of Planets Around the Sun’, presenting his own geometric proof to explain the elliptical orbits of the planets.
Atheist and scientist Richard Dawkins explores the relationship between science, religion and the pursuit of knowledge, challenging the role of religion and explaining his views about the value of scientific...
Chronicles how Einstein became an advocate for peace, using excerpts from his diaries, personal letters and writings. Looks at some of the 20th century’s most important events from Einstein’s point of...
In her keynote address to the NGO forum on women in Beijing in 1995, Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi voices some of the common hopes which unite women all over the world. She is particularly concerned...
The irony of Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite and founded the Nobel Prize; chemist Roald Hoffman reads his poem about Nobel Prize-winner Fritz Haber and explains how in his opinion chemists have a...
Portrait of Grazia Deledda, whose novels won her the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926. Includes dramatised scenes from her novels and her life.
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...
The text and a streamed audio recording of Derek Walcott’s Nobel lecture given on 7 December, 1992, available free on the internet.
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