The Life Scientific: Explorers

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'Both inspirational and richly human, the book offers a compelling picture of science at the cutting edge' Times Higher Education

Inside the lives of the scientists who are exploring the world, our universe, the past and ourselves.

Based on interviews broadcast on BBC Radio 4's hugely popular series, 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 include:

Michele Dougherty, who is leading scientific missions to Saturn and Jupiter

Richard Fortey, on his fascination with the long-extinct marine arthropods, trilobites

Monica Grady, the space scientist best known for her work on meteorites

Henry Marsh, pioneering neurosurgeon and author of the acclaimed memoir Do No Harm

Jane Francis, polar scientist and Director of the British Antarctic Survey

Brian Cox, professor of particle physics and broadcaster, on quantum mechanics

Jocelyn Bell Burnell, the radio astronomer who discovered a new kind of star

John Sulston, Nobel prize-winning biologist, on the sequencing of the human genome

'Anna Buckley, the producer of The Life Scientific, distils the scientists' passions skilfully into print' Sunday Times, Science Books of the Year 2018