Science in focus: big questions - the nature of scientific enquiry
It’s a slow, painstaking business unlocking the secrets of the Universe. But occasionally an inspired individual makes sense out of confusion and comes up with a theory or invention that changes the world and our understanding of how it works.
Five programmes, enthusiastically presented by Adam Hart-Davis, focus on the lives, work and struggles of scientists who have made those great intellectual leaps. How did they do it? What did they owe to their contemporaries? Why were their ideas so often resisted? What do their stories tell us about the nature of science and scientific enquiry?
1. Faraday’s Famous Inventions
2. Darwin’s Evolution
3. Mendel and the Gene Splicers
4. Mendeleev’s Dream
5. Hubble’s Expanding Universe
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