The Life Scientific

Professor Jim Al-Khalili talks to leading scientists about their life and work, finding out what inspires and motivates them and asking what their discoveries might do for us in the future

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Every guest on The Life Scientific

346 guests, ranked by how many people never want them back.

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   Danny Altmann

   Danny Altmann on how T cells fight disease · Feb 2023

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   Darren Croft

   Darren Croft on killer whale matriarchs and the menopause · Aug 2024

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   Dave Goulson

   Dave Goulson on bees · Nov 2014

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   Dawn Bonfield

   Dawn Bonfield on inclusive engineering, sustainable solutions and why she once tried to leave the sector for good · Jul 2024

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   Dean Lomax

   Dean Lomax on discovering ichthyosaurs and defying nay-sayers · May 2026

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   Debbie Pain

   Debbie Pain on conserving globally threatened bird species · May 2020

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   Deborah Greaves

   Deborah Greaves on wave power and offshore renewable energy · Aug 2023

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   Derk-Jan Dijk

   Derk-Jan Dijk on the importance of sleep · Sep 2021

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   Donna Strickland

   2018 Nobel Prize winner, Donna Strickland, on laser physics · Mar 2019

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    Dorothy Bishop

    Dorothy Bishop on language disorders · Jul 2015

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    EO Wilson

    EO Wilson on ants and evolution · Jul 2015

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    Edward Witten

    Edward Witten on 'the theory of everything' · Oct 2023

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    Eleanor Schofield

    Eleanor Schofield on conserving Tudor warship the Mary Rose · Nov 2025

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    Elizabeth Fisher

    Elizabeth Fisher on chromosomes in mice and men · Nov 2019

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    Ellen Stofan

    Ellen Stofan on being NASA chief scientist · Oct 2017

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    Elspeth Garman

    Elspeth Garman on crystallography · Oct 2014

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    Emily Holmes

    Emily Holmes on how to treat trauma · Sep 2022

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    Emma Bunce

    Emma Bunce on the gas giants · Jun 2020

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    Erica McAlister

    Erica McAlister on the beauty of flies · Apr 2019

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    Ewan Birney

    Ewan Birney · Jun 2013

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    Ewine van Dishoeck

    Ewine van Dishoeck on cosmic chemistry · Jul 2019

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    Faraneh Vargha-Khadem

    Faraneh Vargha-Khadem on memory · Jul 2016

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    Fay Dowker

    Fay Dowker on a new theory of space-time · May 2017

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    Fiona Rayment

    Fiona Rayment on the applications of nuclear for net zero and beyond · Apr 2024

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    Frances Ashcroft

    Frances Ashcroft · May 2012

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    Francesca Happé

    Francesca Happé on autism · Sep 2020

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    Frank Close

    Frank Close and particle physics · Jun 2018

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    Frank Kelly

    Frank Kelly on air pollution · May 2020

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    Gareth Collett

    Gareth Collett on a career in bomb disposal · Oct 2025

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    Geoff Palmer

    Geoff Palmer on brewing · Aug 2015

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    George Davey-Smith

    George Davey-Smith on health inequalities · Mar 2016

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    Georgina Mace

    Georgina Mace on threatened species · Jul 2016

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    Gideon Henderson

    Gideon Henderson on climate ‘clocks’ and dating ice ages · Aug 2023

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    Gillian Reid

    Gillian Reid on making chemistry count · May 2023

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    Graham MacGregor

    Graham MacGregor on tackling the demons in our diet · Apr 2017

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    Gregory Winter

    2018 Chemistry Nobel Prize winner, Sir Gregory Winter · Feb 2019

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    Haley Gomez

    Haley Gomez on cosmic dust · Feb 2023

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    Hannah Cloke

    Hannah Cloke and predicting floods · Oct 2021

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    Hannah Critchlow

    Hannah Critchlow on the connected brain · Apr 2024

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    Harald Haas

    Harald Haas on making waves in light communication · Jun 2023

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