People of Science

Martin Rees talks to 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. Archive credits: Portrait of Joseph Rotblat © Anne Purkiss Hans Bethe portrait - Los Alamos National Laboratory, all rights reserved 2002 interview by Edward Goldwyn, used with permission of the University of Sheffield Faculty of Engineering. Other images © British Pugwash About the Royal Society The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. https://royalsociety.org/ Subscribe to our YouTube channel for exciting science videos and live events. https://www.youtube.com/royalsociety Find us on: Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/royalsociety.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theroyalsociety/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theroyalsociety/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@royalsocietyscience

Autor: The Royal Society

Publicado: January 5, 2020, 11:37 pm

Ottoline Leyser talks to Brian Cox about her admiration for Nobel Prize winning geneticist, Barbara McClintock and explains the two great principles she uncovered. About the Royal Society The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. https://royalsociety.org/ Subscribe to our YouTube channel for exciting science videos and live events. https://www.youtube.com/royalsociety Find us on: Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/royalsociety.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theroyalsociety/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theroyalsociety/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@royalsocietyscience

Autor: The Royal Society

Publicado: January 5, 2020, 11:37 pm

Joanna Haigh talks to Brian Cox about mathematician and physicist, Lewis Fry Richardson, and discusses his groundbreaking concept of a ‘weather forecasting factory’. Find out more about Lewis Fry Richardson in our Google Arts and Culture exhibit: https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/people-of-science-lewis-fry-richardson/9wJyW_SXrfy8Lg Special thanks to the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain. Archive credits: Portrait of Lewis fry Richardson – © Godfrey Argent Studio The Weather Forecasting factory © Stephen Conlin Lewis Fry Richardson FAU personnel card © Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain AMB 2 FAU delivering bread © Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain About the Royal Society The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. https://royalsociety.org/ Subscribe to our YouTube channel for exciting science videos and live events. https://www.youtube.com/royalsociety Find us on: Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/royalsociety.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theroyalsociety/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theroyalsociety/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@royalsocietyscience

Autor: The Royal Society

Publicado: January 5, 2020, 11:36 pm

Computer Scientist Wendy Hall talks to Brian Cox about one of her personal heroes, Alan Turing, and discusses how his discoveries influenced so much in the modern world. Find out more about Alan Turing in our Google Arts and Culture exhibit: https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/people-of-science-alan-turing/KQIiCZ8iSSHtJw With special thanks to Bletchley Park. Archive credits: Portrait of Alan Mathison Turing © Godfrey Argent Studio Other images with permission of King's College Library, Cambridge About the Royal Society The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. https://royalsociety.org/ Subscribe to our YouTube channel for exciting science videos and live events. https://www.youtube.com/royalsociety Find us on: Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/royalsociety.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theroyalsociety/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theroyalsociety/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@royalsocietyscience

Autor: The Royal Society

Publicado: January 5, 2020, 11:35 pm

Richard Fortey talks to Brian Cox about pioneering geologist, Charles Lyell, whose work on extending geological time provided credibility to Darwin’s theory of natural selection. Find out more about Charles Lyell in our Google Arts and Culture exhibit: https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/people-of-science-charles-lyell/PAJSR0Vq5IGQKw With special thanks to the Geological Society of London. About the Royal Society The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. https://royalsociety.org/ Subscribe to our YouTube channel for exciting science videos and live events. https://www.youtube.com/royalsociety Find us on: Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/royalsociety.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theroyalsociety/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theroyalsociety/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@royalsocietyscience

Autor: The Royal Society

Publicado: January 5, 2020, 11:35 pm

Venki Ramakrishnan talks to Brian Cox about Max Perutz, whose work mapping molecules such as haemoglobin laid the foundations for the field of molecular biology. With special thanks to MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Archive credits: J.D. Bernal image: Peter Lofts About the Royal Society The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. https://royalsociety.org/ Subscribe to our YouTube channel for exciting science videos and live events. https://www.youtube.com/royalsociety Find us on: Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/royalsociety.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theroyalsociety/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theroyalsociety/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@royalsocietyscience

Autor: The Royal Society

Publicado: January 5, 2020, 11:34 pm

Dame Sally Davies talks to Brian Cox about her interest in antibiotic resistance and admiration of Alexander Fleming and Howard Florey for their development of penicillin. Explore our Google Arts and Culture collection on Fleming and Florey's lives - http://ow.ly/USnB30hOjxp See our collected archive papers of Alexander Fleming & Howard Florey's work - http://ow.ly/QyHY30inb4x With special thanks to the Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum. https://www.imperial.nhs.uk/about-us/who-we-are/fleming-museum About the Royal Society The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. https://royalsociety.org/ Subscribe to our YouTube channel for exciting science videos and live events. https://www.youtube.com/royalsociety Find us on: Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/royalsociety.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theroyalsociety/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theroyalsociety/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@royalsocietyscience

Autor: The Royal Society

Publicado: February 12, 2018, 9:28 am

President of the Institute of Physics Professor Julia Higgins joins Professor Brian Cox to explore the life and work of Michael Faraday and how his curiosity and passion for communicating science inspires her. Explore our Google Arts and Culture collection on Michael Faraday's life - http://ow.ly/kEfa30hPCev See our collected archive papers of Michael Faraday's work - http://ow.ly/fibi30inaUW With special thanks to the Royal Institution Museum & Archives http://www.rigb.org/visit-us/faraday-museum About the Royal Society The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. https://royalsociety.org/ Subscribe to our YouTube channel for exciting science videos and live events. https://www.youtube.com/royalsociety Find us on: Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/royalsociety.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theroyalsociety/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theroyalsociety/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@royalsocietyscience

Autor: The Royal Society

Publicado: February 12, 2018, 9:28 am

The writer Bill Bryson talks to Brian Cox about his admiration for the US scientist, author and inventor Benjamin Franklin and his many achievements. Explore our Google Arts and Culture collection on Benjamin Franklin's life - http://ow.ly/99sH30hOhXi See our collected archive papers of Benjamin Franklin's work - http://ow.ly/o7Ou30inaJB About the Royal Society The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. https://royalsociety.org/ Subscribe to our YouTube channel for exciting science videos and live events. https://www.youtube.com/royalsociety Find us on: Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/royalsociety.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theroyalsociety/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theroyalsociety/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@royalsocietyscience

Autor: The Royal Society

Publicado: February 12, 2018, 9:28 am

Sir David Spiegelhalter discusses how the work of amateur mathematician Thomas Bayes and statistician Ronald Fisher – who was also a leading proponent of the now completely discredited eugenics movement - helped to shape the current thinking of probability. Explore our Google Arts and Culture Collection on Bayes and Fisher - http://ow.ly/EW6l30hPCpZ See our collected archive papers of Fisher & Bayes' work - http://ow.ly/nr7F30inayN With special thanks to the Oxford and Cambridge Club. About the Royal Society The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. https://royalsociety.org/ Subscribe to our YouTube channel for exciting science videos and live events. https://www.youtube.com/royalsociety Find us on: Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/royalsociety.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theroyalsociety/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theroyalsociety/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@royalsocietyscience

Autor: The Royal Society

Publicado: February 12, 2018, 9:27 am

The pioneering developmental psychologist Uta Frith discusses Alice Lee, whose work in craniology challenged the idea that women were intellectually inferior because they have smaller brain sizes. Explore our Google Arts and Culture collection on Alice Lee's life - http://ow.ly/fe3P30hOmOc With special thanks to the UCL Galton Collection. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ See our collected archive papers of Alice Lee's work - http://ow.ly/gDmZ30inap3 About the Royal Society The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. https://royalsociety.org/ Subscribe to our YouTube channel for exciting science videos and live events. https://www.youtube.com/royalsociety Find us on: Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/royalsociety.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theroyalsociety/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theroyalsociety/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@royalsocietyscience

Autor: The Royal Society

Publicado: February 12, 2018, 9:27 am

Sir David Attenborough talks to Brian Cox about his admiration for the achievements of Charles Darwin, and how On the Origin of Species inspires him in his work in the natural world. Explore our Google Arts and Culture collection on Charles Darwin's life - http://ow.ly/Kwsd30hPC6x With special thanks to the Grant Museum of Zoology, UCL https://www.ucl.ac.uk/culture/grant-museum-zoology About the Royal Society The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. https://royalsociety.org/ Subscribe to our YouTube channel for exciting science videos and live events. https://www.youtube.com/royalsociety Find us on: Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/royalsociety.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theroyalsociety/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theroyalsociety/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@royalsocietyscience

Autor: The Royal Society

Publicado: February 12, 2018, 9:27 am