The science broadcaster explains why he's been delving into the lives of some extraordinary scientists.
In the People of Science series, Prof Brian Cox discusses some of the greatest researchers and their achievementsto tell the stories of extraordinary scientists through interviews and access to the society's rich archive. Here, Professor Brian Cox explains some of the contributions to knowledge by researchers featured in the project.
It has revealed that we share a common ancestor with all life on Earth, that we evolved in an unbroken chain from the first living things almost four billion years ago, and that we live on a small planet circling one of four hundred billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy, itself one of over two trillion galaxies in the observable Universe.
It was geologist Charles Lyell who calculated a rough figure for the age of the Earth and it was that knowledge that helped Charles Darwin to understand the timescale for the evolution of life.An illustration of Mount Etna from Charles Lyell's book Principles of Geology Alice Lee used statistical measurements to disprove the widely held view that men were more intelligent than women because they had larger brains.Despite playing a role in the Manhattan Project, Joseph Rotblat later campaigned against nuclear weapons
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