Beautiful Minds (TV programme)
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| genre = Documentary
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| country = United Kingdom
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| runtime = 1 hour
| channel = BBC Four
| first_aired = {{Start date|2010|4|7|df=y}}
| last_aired = {{End date|2012|4|25|df=y}}
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Beautiful Minds is a British documentary television programme, produced by BBC and broadcast on BBC Four. The first series aired in April 2010, and the second series in April 2012. Each series consists of three episodes.
Overview
The programme features significant British scientists who describe their big moment or discovery.[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01fq4vv/episodes/guide BBC4: Beautiful Minds]. Retrieved 19 April 2012
Episodes
=Series 1 (2010)=
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|RTitle= Jocelyn Bell Burnell
|OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2010|4|7|df=y}}
|ShortSummary=Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell describes how she discovered pulsars, the by-products of supernova explosions which make life in the universe possible.
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|RTitle= James Lovelock
|OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2010|4|14|df=y}}
|ShortSummary=Environmentalist James Lovelock explains how his way of thinking led him not only to breakthroughs in atmospheric detection systems on Earth and Mars, but also to the Gaia hypothesis – a new way of thinking about the Earth as a holistic, self-regulating system.
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|EpisodeNumber= 3
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|RTitle= Tim Hunt
|OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2010|4|21|df=y}}
|ShortSummary=Biochemist Sir Tim Hunt at Cancer Research UK, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2001 for his discovery of the mechanism of how cells divide, recalls moments in his life that provided inspiration for his career as a scientist.
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=Series 2 (2012)=
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|RTitle= Jenny Clack
|OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2012|4|11|df=y}}
|ShortSummary=Jenny Clack, Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology at Cambridge University, recounts how she overcame setbacks before she found and described a fossil which offered new evidence of how fish made the transition onto land.
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|EpisodeNumber= 5
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|RTitle= Andre Geim
|OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2012|4|18|df=y}}
|ShortSummary=Andre Geim, Professor of Physics at the University of Manchester, reveals how his playful approach to his research helped him uncover the properties of graphene, the world's thinnest material, and won him the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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|RTitle= Richard Dawkins
|OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2012|4|25|df=y}}
|ShortSummary=Professor Richard Dawkins reveals how he came to write The Selfish Gene in 1976, an explosive book which divided the scientific community and made him the most influential evolutionary biologist of his generation, and how this made him an outspoken spokesman for atheism.
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References
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External links
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Category:2010s British documentary television series
Category:2010 British television series debuts
Category:2012 British television series endings