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  • The Life Scientific: Explorers

  • By: Anna Buckley
  • Narrated by: Karen Cass
  • Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
  • 3.0 out of 5 stars (1 rating)

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The Life Scientific: Explorers

By: Anna Buckley
Narrated by: Karen Cass
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Publisher's summary

Inspiring life stories from BBC Radio 4's hit series The Life Scientific

'In showing non-scientists why science offers so many paths to discovery it has no equal' Gillian Reynolds, Telegraph

Based on Jim Al-Khalili's ground-breaking interviews, The Life Scientific: Explorers takes science out of its box and introduces us to the men and women who make it happen.

The explorers featured in this volume include: Michele Dougherty, the mathematician who persuaded the Cassini mission to Saturn to make a diversion; Richard Fortey on his love of trilobites; Monica Grady, Meteorite Lady; neurosurgeon Henry Marsh on slicing through our thoughts; the Director of the British Antarctic Survey, Jane Francis; Jocelyn Bell Burnell describing how she missed out on a Nobel Prize; Brian Cox on quantum mechanics; and Nobel Prize winner John Sulston on why he thought it would be a good idea to sequence the human genome.

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©2018 Anna Buckley (P)2018 Orion Publishing Group

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The stories are great but the narrator isn't a great choice. For interviewing scientists, acting excessively isn't necessary

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