# The Life Scientific: Explorers

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- Book: [The Life Scientific: Explorers](https://www.bookquiver.com/anna-buckley/the-life-scientific-explorers) ([The Life Scientific: Explorers.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/anna-buckley/the-life-scientific-explorers.md))
- Authors: [Anna Buckley](https://www.bookquiver.com/anna-buckley)
- Publisher: w_n
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7460-749-0
- Published: 2018-09-27
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Inspiring life stories from BBC Radio 4's hit series The Life Scientific 'In showing non-scientists why science offers so many paths to discovery it has no equal' Gillian Reynolds, Telegraph Based on Jim Al-Khalili's ground-breaking interviews, The Life Scientific: Explorers 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; Jocelyn Bell Burnell describing how she missed out on a Nobel Prize; 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.