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Inventors: the Life Scientific
[Hardback - 2019]
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Category: Science
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Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Uk | ISBN: 9781474607520 | Pages: 288
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Their work is changing the world we live in, but what do we really know about their lives beyond the lab? Based on interviews for the hit BBC Radio 4 series, The Life Scientific: Inventors reveals the life and work of some of the foremost scientists in the world, from Nobel laureates to the next generation of beautiful minds. Getting under their skin and into their minds, we find out what first inspired them and what motivates them to keep going. The inventors featured in this volume include: Alan Winfield on robots for the twenty-first century; Alison Smith on making biofuels from algae; Wendy Hall on inventing the worldwide web; Ian Wilmut on creating Dolly the sheep; and Ann Dowling on creating a silent aircraft.

Anna Buckley is the series producer of The Life Scientific on BBC Radio 4 and author of The Life Scientific: Explorers and The Life Scientific: Inventors. She has worked with the presenter of The Life Scientific, Jim Al-Khalili since the programme was launched in 2011, bringing scientists into conversations that were conventionally reserved for politics and the arts.

At university, she dreamt of being an astrochemist, then tried and failed to save the world, working in overseas aid. After working for the BBC World Service for several years, she migrated back to her first love, science as a communicator and has worked in the BBC Radio Science Unit for twenty years. Her mission is to make cutting edge science, and scientists, accessible to us all.

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