| Show Name: | The Life Scientific |
| Runtime: | 30 minutes |
| Home Station: | BBC Radio 4 |
| Presenter: | Jim Al-Khalili |
| Num Episodes: | 281 |
The Life Scientific is a BBC Radio 4 science programme, presented by Jim Al-Khalili, in which each episode is dedicated to the biography and work of a living scientist.[1] [2] [3] [4] The programme consists of an interview between Al-Khalili and the featured scientist, with others contributing anecdotes.
It is broadcast on Tuesday mornings in the UK, and is available online and via BBC Sounds, as is an archive of past episodes.[5] There have been over 200 episodes since the first, an interview with Sir Paul Nurse .[6] In October 2021 the programme reached its 10-year anniversary with discussion between Ottoline Leyser, Paul Nurse, Christopher Jackson and Sue Black about what makes a scientist a scientist.
Guests have included:[7]
| Number | Name | Date | Topic | Programme page | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| 1 | data-sort-value="Nurse, Paul" | Paul Nurse | Biology, winning the Nobel Prize and being President of the Royal Society | ||
| 2 | data-sort-value="Pinker, Steven" | Steven Pinker | Science writing and cognitive psychology | [8] | |
| 3 | data-sort-value="Bell Burnell, Jocelyn" | Jocelyn Bell Burnell | Astrophyics and winning the Nobel Prize | [9] | |
| 4 | data-sort-value="Marmot, Michael" | Michael Marmot | How stress kills | [10] | |
| 5 | data-sort-value="Blakemore, Colin" | Colin Blakemore | Neuroscience | [11] | |
| 6 | data-sort-value="Stevens, Molly" | Molly Stevens | Growing human bones in a test tube | [12] | |
| 7 | data-sort-value="Clayton, Nicola" | Nicola Clayton | The intelligence of birds | [13] | |
| 8 | data-sort-value="Sulston, John" | John Sulston | Biology | [14] | |
| 9 | data-sort-value="Frith, Uta" | Uta Frith | Changing how we view brain disorders | [15] | |
| 10 | data-sort-value="Hunt, Tim" | Tim Hunt | Molecular biology and winning the Nobel Prize | [16] | |
| 11 | data-sort-value="Winston, Robert" | Robert Winston | IVF, the House of Lords and scientists' ethical responsibility | [17] | |
| 12 | data-sort-value="Pillinger, Colin" | Colin Pillinger | Life on Mars | [18] | |
| 13 | data-sort-value="Murray, Robin" | Robin Murray | The cause of schizophrenia | [19] | |
| 14 | data-sort-value="Stringer, Chris" | Chris Stringer | Paleoanthropology and who our ancestors were | [20] | |
| 15 | data-sort-value="Ryan, Tony" | Tony Ryan | The future of nanotechnology | [21] | |
| 16 | data-sort-value="Chalmers, Iain" | Iain Chalmers | Health services | [22] | |
| 17 | data-sort-value="Rees, Martin" | Martin Rees | The multiverse | [23] | |
| 18 | data-sort-value="Lawton, John" | John Lawton | Ecology | [24] | |
| 19 | data-sort-value="Virdee, Tejinder" | Tejinder Virdee | The search for the Higgs boson | [25] | |
| 20 | data-sort-value="Gallop, Angela" | Angela Gallop | Forensic science | [26] | |
| 21 | data-sort-value="Lovelock, James" | James Lovelock | The Gaia hypothesis, microwave ovens | [27] | |
| 22 | data-sort-value="Ashcroft, Frances" | Frances Ashcroft | The link between blood sugar and insulin | [28] | |
| 23 | data-sort-value="Peck, Lloyd" | Lloyd Peck | Giant sea spiders | [29] | |
| 24 | data-sort-value="Sahakian, Barbara" | Barbara Sahakian | Neurotransmitters | [30] | |
| 25 | data-sort-value="May, Bob" | Bob May | Public trust | [31] | |
| 26 | data-sort-value="Pickett, John" | John Pickett | GM wheat | [32] | |
| 27 | data-sort-value="Jones, Steve" | Steve Jones | Snail studies | [33] | |
| 28 | data-sort-value="Wolseley, Pat" | Pat Wolseley | Her obsession with lichen | [34] | |
| 29 | data-sort-value="Siegert, Martin" | Martin Siegert | Under the Antarctic ice | [35] | |
| 30 | data-sort-value="Dowling, Ann" | Ann Dowling | Silent aircraft | [36] | |
| 31 | data-sort-value="Dawkins, Richard" | Richard Dawkins | Being a biologist and author | [37] | |
| 32 | data-sort-value="Sella, Andrea" | Andrea Sella | Why my chemistry demonstrations are filling theatres | [38] | |
| 33 | data-sort-value="Nutt, David" | David Nutt | Research into drugs and the brain | [39] | |
| 34 | data-sort-value="Gupta, Sunetra" | Sunetra Gupta | Being a scientist and novelist | [40] | |
| 35 | data-sort-value="Walport, Mark" | Mark Walport | Being Government Chief Scientific Advisor | [41] | |
| 36 | data-sort-value="Montgomery, Hugh" | Hugh Montgomery | The gene for fitness | [42] | |
| 37 | data-sort-value="Grady, Monica" | Monica Grady | Life on Mars | [43] | |
| 38 | data-sort-value="Diamond, Jared" | Jared Diamond | Gall bladders, global history and the birds of Papua New Guinea | [44] | |
| 39 | data-sort-value="Gurdon, John" | John Gurdon | Cloning a frog decades before Dolly the Sheep | [45] | |
| 40 | data-sort-value="Whitaker, Amoret" | Amoret Whitaker | Insects and their role in helping solve crimes | [46] | |
| 41 | data-sort-value="Mair, Robert" | Robert Mair | Tunnelling under Big Ben, Crossrail and engineering for the future | [47] | |
| 42 | data-sort-value="Karmiloff-Smith, Annette" | Annette Karmiloff-Smith | Should babies under two watch TV? | [48] | |
| 43 | data-sort-value="Sharkey, Noel" | Noel Sharkey | Robotics and psychology | [49] | |
| 44 | data-sort-value="Beral, Valerie" | Valerie Beral | Breast cancer | [50] | |
| 45 | data-sort-value="Watson, Alan" | Alan Watson | His quest to discover the source of cosmic rays | [51] | |
| 46 | data-sort-value="Ion, Sue" | Sue Ion | Working in the nuclear industry | [52] | |
| 47 | data-sort-value="Rothwell, Nancy" | Nancy Rothwell | Neuroscience | [53] | |
| 48 | data-sort-value="Gupta, Sanjeev" | Sanjeev Gupta | What links the English Channel to valleys on Mars? | [54] | |
| 49 | data-sort-value="Krebs, John" | John Krebs | Birds, foot and mouth disease and badgers | [55] | |
| 50 | data-sort-value="Partridge, Linda" | Linda Partridge | The science of longevity | [56] | |
| 51 | data-sort-value="Donald, Athene" | Athene Donald | The physics behind everyday stuff | [57] | |
| 52 | data-sort-value="Birney, Ewan" | Ewan Birney | Deciphering the human genome and junk DNA | [58] | |
| 53 | data-sort-value="Spiegelhalter, David" | David Spiegelhalter | Risk and uncertainty | [59] | |
| 54 | data-sort-value="Stokoe, Elizabeth" | Elizabeth Stokoe | Studying real-life conversations | [60] | |
| 55 | data-sort-value="Foster, Russell" | Russell Foster | Circadian rhythms and jet lag | [61] | |
| 56 | data-sort-value="Haigh, Joanna" | Joanna Haigh | Climate | [62] | |
| 57 | data-sort-value="Lythgoe, Mark" | Mark Lythgoe | Medical imaging and mountain climbing | [63] | |
| 58 | data-sort-value="Benton, Michael" | Michael Benton | Digging up dinosaurs in remote places | [64] | |
| 59 | data-sort-value="Stewart, Ian" | Ian Stewart | Sci-fi and popularising maths | [65] | |
| 60 | data-sort-value="Scott, Sophie" | Sophie Scott | The science of laughter | [66] | |
| 61 | data-sort-value="Graves, Jenny" | Jenny Graves | Kangaroos and the death of the Y chromosome | [67] | |
| 62 | data-sort-value="Hall, Wendy" | Wendy Hall | The development of the web | [68] | |
| 63 | data-sort-value="Higgs, Peter" | Peter Higgs | The real story of the Higgs boson | [69] | |
| 64 | data-sort-value="Black, Sue" | Sue Black | Identifying human bodies | [70] | |
| 65 | data-sort-value="Patel, Vikram" | Vikram Patel | Global mental health | [71] | |
| 66 | data-sort-value="Miodownik, Mark" | Mark Miodownik | Nuclear weapons, 3D printers and smart materials | [72] | |
| 67 | data-sort-value="Glover, Anne" | Anne Glover | Glow-in-the-dark bacteria and advising ministers | [73] | |
| 68 | data-sort-value="Adams, Alf" | Alf Adams | His small idea that changed the world (the strained-layer quantum-well laser) | [74] | |
| 69 | data-sort-value="van Heyningen, Veronica" | Veronica van Heyningen | The gene that builds the eye | [75] | |
| 70 | data-sort-value="Slingo, Julia" | Julia Slingo | Being chief scientist at the Met Office | [76] | |
| 71 | data-sort-value="Rutter, Michael" | Michael Rutter | Child psychiatry | [77] | |
| 72 | data-sort-value="Hemingway, Janet" | Janet Hemingway | Malaria and the coming of insecticide resistance | [78] | |
| 73 | data-sort-value="Lintott, Chris" | Chris Lintott | Crowd sourced astronomy and Galaxy Zoo | [79] | |
| 74 | data-sort-value="Knapp, Sandra" | Sandra Knapp | Her adventures collecting plants in South America | [80] | |
| 75 | data-sort-value="Llewellyn Smith, Christopher" | Christopher Llewellyn Smith | Nuclear fusion | [81] | |
| 76 | data-sort-value="Shipton, Zoe" | Zoe Shipton | Fracking | [82] | |
| 77 | data-sort-value="Farrar, Jeremy" | Jeremy Farrar | Fighting viruses | [83] | |
| 78 | data-sort-value="Robinson, Carol" | Carol Robinson | Chemistry | [84] | |
| 79 | data-sort-value="Cox, Brian" | Brian Cox | Quantum mechanics | [85] | |
| 80 | data-sort-value="Akhavan, Jackie" | Jackie Akhavan | Explosives | [86] | |
| 81 | data-sort-value="Garman, Elspeth" | Elspeth Garman | Crystallography | [87] | |
| 82 | data-sort-value="Toumazou, Chris" | Chris Toumazou | Inventing medical devices | [88] | |
| 83 | data-sort-value="Boden, Margaret" | Margaret Boden | Artificial intelligence | [89] | |
| 84 | data-sort-value="Fortey, Richard" | Richard Fortey | Fossils | [90] | |
| 85 | data-sort-value="Davies, Sally" | Sally Davies | Public health | [91] | |
| 86 | data-sort-value="Goulson, Dave" | Dave Goulson | Bees | [92] | |
| 87 | data-sort-value="O'Keefe, John" | John O'Keefe | Memory | [93] | |
| 88 | data-sort-value="Taylor, Matt" | Matt Taylor | The Rosetta space mission | [94] | |
| 89 | data-sort-value="Blakemore, Sarah-Jayne" | Sarah-Jayne Blakemore | Teenage brains | [95] | |
| 90 | data-sort-value="Francis, Jane" | Jane Francis | Antarctica | [96] | |
| 91 | data-sort-value="Shirley, Steve" | Steve Shirley | Computer coding | [97] | |
| 92 | data-sort-value="Shadbolt, Nigel" | Nigel Shadbolt | The World Wide Web | [98] | |
| 93 | data-sort-value="Jebb, Susan" | Susan Jebb | Nutrition | [99] | |
| 94 | data-sort-value="Seth, Anil" | Anil Seth | Consciousness | [100] | |
| 95 | data-sort-value="Jones, Kate" | Kate Jones | Bats and biodiversity | [101] | |
| 96 | data-sort-value="Marsh, Henry" | Henry Marsh | Brain surgery | [102] | |
| 97 | data-sort-value="Bishop, Dorothy" | Dorothy Bishop | Language disorders | [103] | |
| 98 | data-sort-value="Frenk, Carlos" | Carlos Frenk | Dark matter | [104] | |
| 99 | data-sort-value="Nic Daeid, Niamh" | Niamh Nic Daéid | Forensic science | [105] | |
| 100 | data-sort-value="Wilson, EO" | E. O. Wilson | Ants and evolution | [106] | |
| 101 | data-sort-value="Palmer, Geoff" | Geoff Palmer | Brewing | [107] | |
| 102 | data-sort-value="Black, Carol" | Carol Black | Public health | [108] | |
| 103 | data-sort-value="George, Danielle" | Danielle George | Electronics | [109] | |
| 104 | data-sort-value="Plomin, Robert" | Robert Plomin | The genetics of intelligence | [110] | |
| 105 | data-sort-value="Vallance, Patrick" | Patrick Vallance | Pharmaceuticals | [111] | |
| 106 | data-sort-value="Willis, Kathy" | Kathy Willis | Botany | [112] | |
| 107 | data-sort-value="Younger, Paul" | Paul Younger | Energy for the future | [113] | |
| 108 | data-sort-value="Piot, Peter" | Peter Piot | Tackling ebola and HIV | [114] | |
| 109 | data-sort-value="Climer, Naomi" | Naomi Climer | Engineering | [115] | |
| 110 | data-sort-value="Lane, Nick" | Nick Lane | The origin of life on earth | [116] | |
| 111 | data-sort-value="Davey Smith, George" | George Davey Smith | Health inequalities | [117] | |
| 112 | data-sort-value="Ramakrishnan, Venki" | Venki Ramakrishnan | Ribosomes | [118] | |
| 113 | data-sort-value="Sharman, Helen" | Helen Sharman | Being an astronaut | [119] | |
| 114 | data-sort-value="Roberts, Carolyn" | Carolyn Roberts | Flood control | [120] | |
| 115 | data-sort-value="Krauss, Lawrence" | Lawrence Krauss | Dark energy | [121] | |
| 116 | data-sort-value="Sautoy, Marcus du" | Marcus du Sautoy | Mathematics | [122] | |
| 117 | data-sort-value="Rowan, Sheila" | Sheila Rowan | Gravitational waves | [123] | |
| 118 | data-sort-value="Davies, Nick" | Nick Davies | Cuckoos | [124] | |
| 119 | data-sort-value="Rymer, Hazel" | Hazel Rymer | Volcanoes | [125] | |
| 120 | data-sort-value="Vargha-Khadem, Faraneh" | Faraneh Vargha-Khadem | Memory | [126] | |
| 121 | data-sort-value="Mace, Georgina" | Georgina Mace | Threatened species | [127] | |
| 122 | data-sort-value="Cox, Trevor" | Trevor Cox | Sound | [128] | |
| 123 | data-sort-value="Wilmut, Ian" | Ian Wilmut | Dolly the Sheep | [129] | |
| 124 | data-sort-value="de Waal, Frans" | Frans de Waal | Chimpanzees | [130] | |
| 125 | data-sort-value="Boddy, Lynne" | Lynne Boddy | Fungi | [131] | |
| 126 | data-sort-value="Penrose, Roger" | Roger Penrose | Black holes, quantum mechanics, consciousness | [132] | |
| 127 | data-sort-value="Higgins, Julia" | Julia Higgins | Polymers | [133] | |
| 128 | data-sort-value="Morris, Richard" | Richard Morris | How we know where we are | [134] | |
| 129 | data-sort-value="Tyson, Neil deGrasse" | Neil deGrasse Tyson | Pluto | [135] | |
| 130 | data-sort-value="Dougherty, Michele" | Michele Dougherty | Saturn | [136] | |
| 131 | data-sort-value="Zalasiewicz, Jan" | Jan Zalasiewicz | The Age of Man | [137] | |
| 132 | data-sort-value="Farooqi, Sadaf" | Sadaf Farooqi | What makes us fat | [138] | |
| 133 | data-sort-value="Smith, Alison" | Alison Smith | Algae | [139] | |
| 134 | data-sort-value="Carroll, Sean" | Sean Carroll | How time and space began | [140] | |
| 135 | data-sort-value="Wessely, Simon" | Simon Wessely | Unexplained medical syndromes | [141] | |
| 136 | data-sort-value="Winfield, Alan" | Alan Winfield | Robot ethics | [142] | |
| 137 | data-sort-value="Woollard, Alison" | Alison Woollard | What she has learnt from mutant worms | [143] | |
| 138 | data-sort-value="Dennett, Daniel" | Daniel Dennett | The evolution of the human brain | [144] | |
| 139 | data-sort-value="Fraser, Nick" | Nick Fraser | Triassic reptiles | [145] | |
| 140 | data-sort-value="Sockett, Liz" | Liz Sockett | Friendly killer bacteria | [146] | |
| 141 | data-sort-value="MacGregor, Graham" | Graham MacGregor | Tackling the demons in our diet | [147] | |
| 142 | data-sort-value="Clarke, Ann" | Ann Clarke | The Frozen Ark | [148] | |
| 143 | data-sort-value="Dowker, Fay" | Fay Dowker | A new theory of space-time | [149] | |
| 144 | data-sort-value="Leyser, Ottoline" | Ottoline Leyser | How plants decide what to do | [150] | |
| 145 | data-sort-value="O'Brien, Tim" | Tim O'Brien | Transient stars and science and music festivals | [151] | |
| 146 | data-sort-value="Mather, Tamsin" | Tamsin Mather | 30 May 2017 | Volcanology | [152] |
| 147 | data-sort-value="Doudna, Jennifer" | Jennifer Doudna | Gene editing | [153] | |
| 148 | data-sort-value="Rogers, Tracey" | Tracey Rogers | Leopard seals and Antarctica | [154] | |
| 149 | data-sort-value="Green, Lucie" | Lucie Green | The Sun | [155] | |
| 150 | data-sort-value="Cowley, Steven" | Steven Cowley | Nuclear Fusion | [156] | |
| 151 | data-sort-value="Birkhead, Tim" | Tim Birkhead | Bird promiscuity | [157] | |
| 152 | data-sort-value="Stofan, Ellen" | Ellen Stofan | Being NASA Chief Scientist | [158] | |
| 153 | data-sort-value="Thomas, Adrian" | Adrian Thomas | 31 October 2017 | The mechanics of flight | [159] |
| 154 | data-sort-value="Upton, Eben" | Eben Upton | 16 January 2018 | Raspberry Pi | [160] |
| 155 | data-sort-value="Cheng, Eugenia" | Eugenia Cheng | 23 January 2018 | The mathematics of mathematics | [161] |
| 156 | data-sort-value="Barclay, Wendy" | Wendy Barclay | 30 January 2018 | The flu virus | [162] |
| 157 | data-sort-value="Henderson, Richard" | Richard Henderson | 13 February 2018 | The molecules of life | [163] |
| 158 | data-sort-value="Burn, John" | John Burn | 20 February 2018 | The genetics of cancer | [164] |
| 159 | data-sort-value="Macadam, Ailie" | Ailie MacAdam | 27 February 2018 | The biggest construction project in Europe | [165] |
| 160 | data-sort-value="Grey, Clare" | Clare Grey | 6 March 2018 | Big battery challenge | [166] |
| 161 | data-sort-value="Reicher, Steve" | Steve Reicher | 13 March 2018 | Psychology of crowds | [167] |
| 162 | data-sort-value="Roberts, Callum" | Callum Roberts | 1 May 2018 | Marine conservation | [168] |
| 163 | data-sort-value="Rovelli, Carlo" | Carlo Rovelli | 8 May 2018 | Why time is not what it seems | [169] |
| 164 | data-sort-value="Dean, Caroline" | Caroline Dean | 15 May 2018 | Genetic secrets of flowering | [170] |
| 165 | data-sort-value="Hobaiter, Cat" | Catherine Hobaiter | 22 May 2018 | Communication in apes | [171] |
| 166 | data-sort-value="Taylor, John" | John Taylor | 29 May 2018 | Being an inventor | [172] |
| 167 | data-sort-value="Cruickshank, Sheena" | Sheena Cruickshank | 5 June 2018 | The wonders of the human immune system | [173] |
| 168 | data-sort-value="Close, Frank" | Frank Close | 12 June 2018 | Particle physics | [174] |
| 169 | data-sort-value="Mills, Rachel" | Rachel Mills | 19 June 2018 | Exploring the sea floor | [175] |
| 170 | data-sort-value="McGlade, Jacqueline" | Jacqueline McGlade | 23 October 2018 | Monitoring the environment from space | [176] |
| 171 | data-sort-value="Fitzpatrick, Noel" | Noel Fitzpatrick | 30 October 2018 | Becoming a supervet | [177] |
| 172 | data-sort-value="OSullivan, Suzanne" | Suzanne O'Sullivan | 6 November 2018 | Detective of the mind | [178] |
| 173 | data-sort-value="Stratton, Michael" | Michael Stratton | 13 November 2018 | Cancer genes | [179] |
| 174 | data-sort-value="Hargrove, Caroline" | Caroline Hargrove | 20 November 2018 | Formula One | [180] |
| 175 | data-sort-value="Hay, Alastair" | Alastair Hay | 27 November 2018 | Banning chemical weapons | [181] |
| 176 | data-sort-value="Aderin-Pocock, Maggie" | Maggie Aderin-Pocock | 4 December 2018 | Sky at Night presenter | [182] |
| 177 | data-sort-value="Oppenheimer, Clive" | Clive Oppenheimer | 11 December 2018 | Volcanic offerings of our angry earth | [183] |
| 178 | data-sort-value="AlKhalili, Jim" | Jim Al-Khalili | 5 February 2019 | HIS life scientific: Interviewed by Adam Rutherford | [184] |
| 179 | data-sort-value="Black, Sue" | 12 February 2019 | Women in Technology | [185] | |
| 180 | data-sort-value="Winter, Gregory" | Gregory Winter | 19 February 2019 | 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry | [186] |
| 181 | data-sort-value="Adshead, Gwen" | Gwen Adshead | 26 February 2019 | The minds of violent offenders | [187] |
| 182 | data-sort-value="Strickland, Donna" | Donna Strickland | 5 March 2019 | 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics | [188] |
| 183 | data-sort-value="Gabriel, Ken" | Ken Gabriel | 12 March 2019 | Why your Smartphone is Smart | [189] |
| 184 | data-sort-value="Le Quere, Corinne" | Corinne Le Quéré | 19 March 2019 | Global carbon cycle | [190] |
| 185 | data-sort-value="Davies, Paul" | Paul Davies | 26 March 2019 | Origin of life and the evolution of cancer | [191] |
| 186 | data-sort-value="Tracey, Irene" | Irene Tracey | 2 April 2019 | Pain in the brain | |
| 187 | data-sort-value="Peto, Richard" | Richard Peto | 9 April 2019 | Why smoking kills but quitting saves lives | [192] |
| 188 | data-sort-value="McAlister, Erica" | Erica McAlister | 16 April 2019 | The beauty of flies | [193] |
| 189 | data-sort-value="Thompson, Richard" | 25 June 2019 | [194] | ||
| 190 | data-sort-value="Van Dishoeck, Ewine" | Ewine van Dishoeck | 2 July 2019 | Cosmic chemistry | [195] |
| 191 | data-sort-value="King, Turi" | Turi King | 9 July 2019 | Ancient DNA | [196] |
| 192 | data-sort-value="Joy, Katherine" | Katherine Joy | 16 July 2019 | Lunar rock | [197] |
| 193 | data-sort-value="Dunbar, Robin" | Robin Dunbar | 23 July 2019 | Why we have friends | [198] |
| 194 | data-sort-value="Ball, Virologist" | Jonathan Ball | 30 July 2019 | Arms race against viruses | [199] |
| 195 | data-sort-value="Wiseman, Richard" | Richard Wiseman | 1 October 2019 | Lying, luck and the paranormal | [200] |
| 196 | data-sort-value="Magurran, Anne" | Anne Magurran | 8 October 2019 | How to measure biodiversity | [201] |
| 197 | data-sort-value="Clokie, Martha" | Martha Clokie | 15 October 2019 | The viruses that could improve our health | [202] |
| 198 | data-sort-value="Owen, Adrian" | Adrian Owen | 22 October 2019 | Scanning for awareness in the injured brain | [203] |
| 199 | data-sort-value="Islam, Saiful" | 29 October 2019 | Materials to power the 21st century | [204] | |
| 200 | data-sort-value="Hassabis, Demis" | Demis Hassabis | 5 November 2019 | Artificial intelligence | [205] |
| 201 | data-sort-value="Fisher, Elizabeth" | Elizabeth Fisher | 12 November 2019 | Chromosomes in mice and men | [206] |
| 202 | data-sort-value="Wiltshire, Patricia" | Patricia Wiltshire | 7 January 2020 | How pollen can solve crimes | [207] |
| 203 | data-sort-value="Maidment, Susannah" | Susannah Maidment | 14 January 2020 | Stegosaurs | [208] |
| 204 | data-sort-value="Foonagy, Peter" | Peter Fonagy | 28 January 2020 | A revolution in mental health care | [209] |
| 205 | data-sort-value="Ratcliffe, Peter" | Peter Ratcliffe | 4 February 2020 | 2019 Nobel Prize winner for Physiology or Medicine | [210] |
| 206 | data-sort-value="Bayvel, Polina" | Polina Bayvel | 11 February 2020 | Optical communications | [211] |
| 207 | data-sort-value="Allen, Miles" | Myles Allen | 18 February 2020 | Understanding climate change | [212] |
| 208 | data-sort-value="Hurlbert, Anya" | Anya Hurlbert | 25 February 2020 | Seeing colour | [213] |
| 209 | data-sort-value="Cobb, Matthew" | Matthew Cobb | 3 March 2020 | How we detect smells | [214] |
| 210 | data-sort-value="Greene, Brian" | Brian Greene | 28 April 2020 | How the universe is made of string | [215] |
| 211 | data-sort-value="McDonald, Jim" | Jim McDonald | 5 May 2020 | Power networks | [216] |
| 212 | data-sort-value="Pain, Debbie" | Debbie Pain | 12 May 2020 | Conserving globally threatened bird species | [217] |
| 213 | data-sort-value="Kelly, Frank" | Frank Kelly | 10 March 2021 | Air pollution | [218] |
| 214 | data-sort-value="Sewaard, Liz" | Liz Seward | 26 May 2020 | Space science | [219] |
| 215 | data-sort-value="Goodall, Jane" | Jane Goodall | 2 June 2020 | Life with chimpanzees in the Gombe | [220] |
| 216 | data-sort-value="Bunce, Emma" | Emma Bunce | 9 June 2020 | Space science - gas giants of the outer solar system | [221] |
| 217 | data-sort-value="Stott, Clifford" | Clifford Stott | 16 June 2020 | Riot prevention | [222] |
| 218 | data-sort-value="Roberts, Alice" | Alice Roberts | 4 August 2020 | Bones | [223] |
| 219 | data-sort-value="Fabian, Andy" | Andy Fabian | 11 August 2020 | Black holes | [224] |
| 220 | data-sort-value="Sanders, Dale" | Dale Sanders | 18 August 2020 | Feeding the world | [225] |
| 221 | data-sort-value="Koldewey, Heather" | Heather Koldewey | 25 August 2020 | Marine conservation | [226] |
| 222 | data-sort-value="Happe, Francesca" | Francesca Happé | 1 September 2020 | Autism | [227] |
| 223 | data-sort-value="Haake, Steve" | Steve Haake | Technology, sport and health | [228] | |
| 224 | data-sort-value="Gilbert, Sarah" | Sarah Gilbert | Developing a vaccine for Covid-19 | [229] | |
| 225 | data-sort-value="Ferguson, Neil" | Neil Ferguson | Modelling Covid-19 | [230] | |
| 226 | data-sort-value="Jackson, Chris" | Chris Jackson | Sustainable geology | [231] | |
| 227 | data-sort-value="Noakes, Catherine" | Catherine Noakes | Making buildings Covid-safe | [232] | |
| 228 | data-sort-value="Yeo, Giles" | Giles Yeo | How our genes can make us fat | [233] | |
| 229 | data-sort-value="Johnson, Anne Mandall" | Anne Johnson | The importance of public health | [234] | |
| 230 | data-sort-value="Hurst, Jane" | Jane Hurst | The secret life of mice | [235] | |
| 231 | data-sort-value="Bentall, Richard" | Richard Bentall | The causes of mental ill health | [236] | |
| 232 | data-sort-value="Bridle, Sarah" | Sarah Bridle | The carbon footprint of food | [237] | |
| 233 | data-sort-value="Spencer, Mark" | Mark Spencer | How plants solve crimes | [238] | |
| 234 | data-sort-value="Marteau, Theresa" | Theresa Marteau | How to change behaviour | [239] | |
| 235 | data-sort-value="Sweeting, Martin" | Martin Sweeting | Microsatellites in space | [240] | |
| 236 | data-sort-value="Clarke, Jane" | Jane Clarke | Protein Folding | [241] | |
| 237 | data-sort-value="Goadsby, Peter" | Peter Goadsby | Migraine | [242] | |
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| 239 | data-sort-value="Chamberlain, Nira" | Nira Chamberlain | How mathematics can solve real-world problems | [244] | |
| 240 | data-sort-value="Tipton, Mike" | Mike Tipton | How our bodies respond to extreme conditions | [245] | |
| 241 | data-sort-value="Edwards, Tamsin" | Tamsin Edwards | Uncertainty in climate science | [246] | |
| 242 | data-sort-value="Fry, Hannah" | Hannah Fry | The power and perils of big data | [247] | |
| 243 | data-sort-value="Eagleman, David" | David Eagleman | Why reality is an illusion | [248] | |
| 244 | data-sort-value="Boardman, Brenda" | Brenda Boardman | Making our homes energy efficient | [249] | |
| 245 | data-sort-value="Dijk, Derk-Jan" | Derk-Jan Dijk | The importance of sleep | [250] | |
| 246 | data-sort-value="Cloke, Hannah" | Hannah Cloke | Predicting floods | [251] | |
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| 248 | data-sort-value="Spector, Tim" | Tim Spector | Personalised diets for long term health | [253] | |
| 249 | data-sort-value="Clutton-Brock, Tim" | Tim Clutton-Brock | Meerkats, red deer and evolution | [254] | |
| 250 | data-sort-value="Peacock, Sharon" | Sharon Peacock | Hunting pandemic variants of concern | [255] | |
| 251 | data-sort-value="Shaw, Julia" | Julia Shaw | Memories that aren't true | [256] | |
| 252 | data-sort-value="Balasubramanian, Shankar" | Shankar Balasubramanian | Decoding DNA | [257] | |
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| 254 | data-sort-value="Garrod, Ben" | Ben Garrod | Conservation and extinction | [259] | |
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| 258 | data-sort-value="Hart, Adam" | Adam Hart | Ants, bees and insect burgers | [263] | |
| 259 | data-sort-value="Vedral, Vlatko" | Vlatko Vedral | The universe as quantum information | [264] | |
| 260 | data-sort-value="Landray, Martin" | Martin Landray | Saving over a million lives | [265] | |
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| 268 | data-sort-value="Elliott, Chris" | Chris Elliott | Fighting food fraud | [273] | |
| 269 | data-sort-value="Shaw, Pamela" | Pamela Shaw | Research battle against motor neurone disease | [274] | |
| 270 | data-sort-value="Kilner, Rebecca" | Rebecca Kilner | Beetle behaviours and evolution | [275] | |
| 271 | data-sort-value="Johnson, Clifford V." | Clifford V. Johnson | Making sense of black holes and movie plots | [276] | |
| 272 | data-sort-value="Smith, Adrian" | Adrian Smith | The power of Bayesian statistics | [277] | |
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