The life scientific : explorers
Buckley, Anna2018
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Based on the interviews broadcast on BBC Radio 4's hugely popular series, this book 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; 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.
Main title:
The life scientific : explorers / Anna Buckley ; with a foreword by Jim Al-Khalili.
Author:
Buckley, Anna, author
Imprint:
London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2018.
Collation:
xiii, 321 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Notes:
Radio tie-in.
ISBN:
9781474607483 (hbk)
Dewey class:
509.22509
LC class:
Q141
Local class:
509.22
Language:
English
BRN:
2286337