Tim Bentinck
Narrator
Beautiful Minds (2010)
Season 2
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
Released April 7, 2010
Episode 60 min
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Genres: Documentary
Keywords: mdblist.has-trailer, imdb.scientist
Network: BBC Four
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S2E1 - Professor Jenny Clack
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.
April 11, 2012, midnight
S2E2 - Professor Andre Geim
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.
April 18, 2012, midnight
S2E3 - Professor Richard Dawkins
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.
April 25, 2012, midnight
Network: BBC Four
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 360 min.
Released: April 7, 2010
Last Air Date: April 25, 2012, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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