Tomorrow's World: People of Science

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  • Premiered: Jan 2018
  • Episodes: 12
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  • Ended
  • BBC
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  • Documentary

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Season 2
2x1
Dame Wendy Hall Discusses Alan Turing
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 05, 2019
Dame Wendy Hall talks to Professor Brian Cox about one of her personal heroes, Alan Turing and discusses how his discoveries influenced so much in the modern world
2x2
Professor Richard Fortey Discusses Charles Lyell
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 05, 2019
Professor Richard Fortey talks to Professor Brian Cox about pioneering geologist, Charles Lyell, whose work on extending geological time provided credibility to Darwin’s theory of natural selection.
2x3
Venki Ramakrishnan discusses Max Perutz
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 05, 2019
Venki Ramakrishnan talks to Professor Brian Cox about Max Perutz, whose work mapping molecules such as haemoglobin laid the foundations for the field of molecular biology.
2x4
Professor Martin Rees discusses Joseph Rotblat
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 05, 2019
Professor Martin Rees talks to Professor Brian Cox about one of his heroes, Joseph Rotblat, a physicist on the Manhattan Project, who later became a leading advocate of peace and disarmament.
2x5
Dame Ottoline Leyser discusses Barbara McClintock
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 05, 2019
Dame Ottoline Leyser talks to Professor Brian Cox about her admiration for Nobel Prize winning geneticist, Barbara McClintock and explains the two great principles she uncovered.
2x6 Show finale
Professor Joanna Haigh discusses Lewis Fry Richardson
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 05, 2019
Professor Joanna Haigh talks to Professor Brian Cox about mathematician and physicist, Lewis Fry Richardson and discusses his groundbreaking concept of a ‘weather forecasting factory’.

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