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CATEGORIES:Darwin College Lecture Series
SUMMARY:Cosmological Serendipity - Simon Singh\, Author\, 
 Journalist\, TV producer
DTSTART:20080229T173000Z
DTEND:20080229T183000Z
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URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/8738
DESCRIPTION:Abstract\n\nSerendipity influences the development
  of science at every level\, even when it comes to
  the biggest question of all - how and when was ou
 r universe created? The Big Bang model of the univ
 erse is one of the triumphs of modern science\, bu
 t its development relied on numerous accidental di
 scoveries. Simon Singh will describe the history o
 f the Big Bang model and tell the stories of the b
 rilliant astronomers who used a combination of gen
 ius and luck to instigate one the biggest evolutio
 ns in twentieth century science. This lecture will
  include references to Led Zeppelin and electrocut
 ed gherkins. \n\nBiography\n\nAfter completing his
  PhD in particle physics at Cambridge University\,
  Simon Singh became a science journalist. For seve
 n years he was a producer and\ndirector in the BBC
  TV Science Department\, working on programmes suc
 h as Tomorrow's World and Horizon. In 1997 he won 
 a BAFTA for his documentary about Fermat's Last Th
 eorem. He then went on to present programmes (The\
 nScience of Secrecy\, Five Numbers\, The Serendipi
 ty of Science\, Mind Games) on radio and televisio
 n. Today he is best known as the author of three p
 opular science books\, namely "Fermat's Last Theor
 em"\, "The Code Book"\, and "Big Bang". 
LOCATION:LMH\, Lady Mitchell Hall
CONTACT:Janet Gibson
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