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The Past and Future of Genetics

Professor Steve Jones · Gresham College

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About

The French Revolution is famous for its political upheavals, but few know that it was also a time when Paris was the world centre of science in a way that has never been matched before or since. I will take a tour of the city from the Eiffel Tower to the Champs Elysees, taking in the Tour de France on the way, to show how a small group of talented men and women revolutionised science from physics to biology - and how some of them paid a heavy price.

Lectures

  1. No Need for Geniuses: Scientific Revolutions and Revolutionary Scientists in the City of Light 2016-01-25 · YouTube
  2. Germs, Genes and Genesis: The History of Infectious Disease 2016-02-16 · YouTube
  3. Homo Sapiens, an Endangered Species 2016-03-22 · YouTube

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Institution
Gresham College
Speaker
Professor Steve Jones
Year
2016
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Biology, Medicine and health, History
Source
Gresham College
Licence
Educational use (Gresham College's terms), as Gresham College states it. Gresham College's terms
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