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The Life Scientific
Every Tuesday (for 24 weeks of the year) at 09:00
Jim Al-Khalili talks to leading scientists about their life and work, finding out what inspires and motivates them and asking what their discoveries might do for us in the future.
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In Our Time: Maths in the Early Islamic World
2017
Jim is a regular guest panellist on Melvyn Bragg’s In Our Time on BBC Radio 4.
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The Beauty of Equations
2015
Jim al-Khalili was sitting in a physics lecture at the University of Surrey when he suddenly understood the power of equations to describe and predict the physical world. He recalls that sadly his ent
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Free Thinking - The Rules of Good Science
2015
Science progresses by breaking the rules of the past. New observations need new theories to explain them. Einstein’s Theory of Relativity made sense of observations that Newton’s Laws of Motion could
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Too Old to Be a Genius
2015
Jim Al-Khalili is old. Well, not that old. He’s 53. But when you consider that the average age to win a Nobel Prize in physics is 55, he hasn’t got long to make his big discovery.
