About the talk It’s a 100 years since the discovery of quantum mechanics by Heisenberg, Born, Schrödinger, Dirac and colleagues. We now live in a … Read more
Prof Dame Jane Francis – “Greenhouse to Icehouse: fossils of forests and dinosaurs amid icesheets of Antarctica”
Jane Francis is Director of the British Antarctic Survey, a research centre of the Natural Environment Research Council (UKRI-NERC). She is involved with international polar … Read more
Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell – “Astronomy and Poetry”
About the talk Many poets have written about astronomy and the night sky. Dame Jocelyn will select about half a dozen of these poems, give … Read more
Martin Rees – “The World in 2050 – and Beyond”
Astronomer Martin Rees discusses the topics in his latest book ‘On the Future: Prospects for Humanity’. On Zoom, 4 March 2021.