Talking Science

TV personality Adam Hart-Davis meets 14 of the world's leading scientitsts to discuss their work, their passions, and those elusive ground-breaking moments in their lives.

This is a book that shows how science can explain the world that we inherited and shape the world that we would like to leave for future generations.

Adam Hart Davis has interviewed some of the most influential scientists and thinkers of our time. In this fascinating insight into modern science he presents the stories behind the science, the difficulties behind the discoveries and the future of the findings, as explained by the people themselves.

Adam Hart Davis talks with:

Jocelyn Bell Burnell (Bath, UK)

Sir Michael Berry (Bristol, UK)

Colleen Cavanaugh (Harvard, US)

Richard Dawkins (Oxford, UK) .

Loren Graham (MIT, US)

Richard Gregory (Bristol, UK)

Eric Lander (MIT, US)

Lord May of Oxford (UK)

John Maynard Smith (Sussex, UK)

Rosalind Picard (MIT, US)

Peter Raven (St Louis, US)

Sir Martin Rees (Cambridge, UK)

Eugenie Scott (Oakland, US)

Lewis Wolpert (UCL, UK)

Adam Hart-Davis is a successful freelance broadcaster, writer and photographer.  He is an acclaimed presenter of TV programmes, primarily for the BBC, that make science, technology and history accessible to a wide audience.  Before becoming a presenter he was a TV producer on a wide range of programmes for commercial television.
Adam Hart-Davis holds a Dphil from York University and an MA in Chemistry from Oxford University.  He was educated at Eton College.  He completed three years post doctoral research in Canada and the UK and several years in Oxford University Press before beginning his television career at Yorkshire Television.
Full details of the programmes on which he has worked can be found on his web-site: adam-hart-davis.org