Mayfair
London W1J 0BA
UK
In this Humphry Davy lecture, organised in collaboration with our Chilterns & Middlesex Local Section, Pallab Ghosh will recount his experiences as a BBC Science Correspondent.
Pallab has reported on the race to sequence the human genome, the birth of Dolly the sheep, the emergence of the World Wide Web, the discovery of the Higgs Boson and the detection of gravitational waves. He will talk about the stories behind these ground breaking developments: the rivalries, the passions and the moments of joy despair and humour.
He will discuss how society has sometimes wrestled with the pace of scientific changes and will consider how far we have come in communicating science and engaging the wider public.
Pallab will also talk about the moment which most inspired him, when he managed to have a brief chat with the first man to walk on the Moon – Neil Armstrong.