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In Search of Science
Professor Brian Cox introduces Britain's science heroes.
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Brian’s forgotten pioneers of British science
The British Isles are home to just one percent of the world's population and yet our small collection of rocks poking out of the north Atlantic has thrown up world beaters in virtually every field of human endeavour...