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Dr Dan McKenzie, FRS, was one of the research scientists whose work resulted in the revolutionary theory of plate tectonics in 1970. He describes his work and ideas and explains how these contributed to the...
Professor Abdus Salam, a 1979 Nobel Laureate, has worked for 20 years towards the ‘grand unification’, the dream of physicists since Einstein that all of nature - the matter it comprises and the forces...
Professor Tom Gold, FRS, the Austrian physicist was only 28 years old when he challenged the fundamental scientific assumption that matter can neither be created out of nothing nor totally destroyed. He,...
Dr John H Crook, Reader in Ethology at the University of Bristol, believes that new ideas that have come from ethology (the study of human behaviour) provide an evolutionary perspective on the origins of...
Tom Bower, Professor of Child Psychology at the University of Edinburgh, has been engaged in research on the intellectual abilities of very young children for over 20 years. He now believes that babies can...
Patrick Wall, Professor of Anatomy at University College London, together with colleagues, has developed the first radically new theory (the gate control theory) for 300 years on how pain is felt. His...
Roger Penrose, Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University, has developed a new geometry for physics which attempts to go beyond Einstein’s theories in our understanding of space. He discusses the...
Dr Sydney Brenner, Director of the Medical Research Council’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge, is one of the pioneers in the field of molecular biology. He talks about his contribution to the...
Professor Sir Fred Hoyle describes the insights that led him to challenge the ‘big bang’ theory of the origin of the universe and to attempt to establish his alternative steady state theory of an...
A personal view of the play presented by Dr Roy Strong. The series aims to develop a greater understanding and appreciation of the plays by placing them in their social and historical context and by...
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