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Beautiful Minds

Season 2 2012

  • 2012-04-10T23:00:00Z on BBC Four
  • 1h
  • 3h (3 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
Beautiful Minds is a BBC documentary series shown on BBC Four, which features significant British scientists who describe their big moment or discovery. The first series aired in April 2010, and the second series in April 2012. Each series consists of three episodes

3 episodes

Season Premiere

2012-04-10T23:00:00Z

2x01 Professor Jenny Clack

Season Premiere

2x01 Professor Jenny Clack

  • 2012-04-10T23:00:00Z1h

For palaeontologist Professor Jenny Clack, who solved one of the greatest mysteries in the history of life on Earth, success was far from inevitable. She recounts how she had to overcome a series of setbacks before she found and described the fossil Acanthostega, a 365 million-year-old creature that offered dramatic new evidence of how fish made the transition onto land.

2012-04-17T23:00:00Z

2x02 Professor Andre Geim

2x02 Professor Andre Geim

  • 2012-04-17T23:00:00Z1h

Andre Geim reveals how his playful approach to research helped him uncover the properties of graphene, the world's thinnest material, and won him a Nobel Prize.

2012-04-24T23:00:00Z

2x03 Professor Richard Dawkins

2x03 Professor Richard Dawkins

  • 2012-04-24T23:00:00Z1h

Professor Richard Dawkins reveals how he came to write his explosive first book The Selfish Gene, a work that was to divide the scientific community and make him the most influential evolutionary biologist of his generation. He also explores how this set him on the path to becoming an outspoken spokesman for atheism.

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