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  1. Imagined Worlds. Part 2: The Day the Earth Moved (1982 Video)

    Subject
    Geology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    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...

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  2. Imagined Worlds. Part 3: Behind Reality (1982 Video)

    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    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...

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  3. Imagined Worlds. Part 4: There’s No Virtue in Timidity (1982 Video)

    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    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,...

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  4. Imagined Worlds. Part 5: Programmed for Insight? (1982 Video)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    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...

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  5. Imagined Worlds. Part 6: Professor Tom Bower (1982 Video)

    Subject
    Psychology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    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...

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  6. Imagined Worlds. Part 7: Professor Patrick Wall (1982 Video)

    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    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...

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  7. Imagined Worlds. Part 8: Professor Roger Penrose (1982 Video)

    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    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...

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  8. Imagined Worlds. Part 9: Dr Sydney Brenner (1982 Video)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    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...

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  9. Imagined Worlds. Part 10: Professor Sir Fred Hoyle (1982 Video)

    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    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...

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  10. Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (Sp) (1982 Television, Video)

    Director
    David Wilson
    Producer
    Victor Poole
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION (2006), Videocassette. VHS. col. 25 min.

    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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