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The Speed King and the Rolls-Royce

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By David Rooney

In a previous couple of posts I introduced Malcolm Campbell, who broke land and water speed records in the 1920s and 30s using vehicles named ‘Blue Bird’. One of his…

The Speed King And The Daylight-saver

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By David Rooney

In a previous post I mentioned Malcolm Campbell and his remarkable speed records set on land and water in his Blue Bird vehicles. Campbell was buried in St Nicholas’s churchyard…

Fly Like A (green) Bird

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By David Rooney

…ride. Greenbird’s name looks back to the Bluebird land and watercraft driven by Malcolm and Donald Campbell. I’ve just finished reading Tonia Bern-Campbell’s book about her marriage to Donald, and…

Measuring Sunshine

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By Victoria Carroll

The recent sunny spells have got me thinking about some of my favourite objects in the meteorology collection – sunshine recorders. Campbell sunshine recorder c. 1880 (Science Museum / Science…

Stephen Hawking on how to shape the future of humanity

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By Science Museum

…published by John Murray. Press conference for Stephen Hawking’s final book (l-r: Tim Hawking, Lucy Hawking, Roger Highfield, Malcolm Perry, Andrew Strominger and Fay Dowker). The event was attended by…

See Our Universe Through a New Lens: Science Photographer of the Year

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By Roger Highfield

…presenter and space expert Dallas Campbell, and Catherine Draycott, Founder of the Wellcome Image Award. We had to sift through hundreds of entries to the competition, which was open to…

Science City Meets the Media

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By Amrita Pal

…Chair of the HFEA; Prof Elizabeth Tanner, Queen Mary, University of London; Sir Phil Campbell, Editor-in-Chief of the publishing company Springer Nature; Prof Matthew Freeman, head of the Dunn School,…

Obituary: Ian Wilmut

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By Roger Highfield

…an insight that would be deepened by Keith Campbell whose knowledge of the cell cycle proved critical for the cloning of Dolly. They first realised it was possible to clone…

25th Scientists Meet the Media Party held at the Science Museum

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By Heather Morris

…astronaut Helen Sharman with Helen Czerski and Dallas Campbell. Sands congratulated the Director of the Museum, Ian Blatchford, on his recent wedding and the Chair of the Board of Trustees,…

Tim Peake’s Return to Earth at the Science Museum

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By Alex Tyrrell

To celebrate the return of British astronaut Tim Peake to Earth on Saturday morning, the first Briton in space Helen Sharman and TV presenters Helen Czerski and Dallas Campbell will…

The Historic Heart Of Our Information Age Gallery

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By Charlotte Connelly

…era. Former station manager Malcolm Hancock was invited to detonate the first explosion: “They had been there for so long and the red lights (on top of the masts) had…

Helen Sharman’s spacesuit

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By Roger Highfield

…suit worn by Helen Sharman in 1991, manufactured by ‘Zvezda’. Credit: Science Museum Group. In the Science Museum, we reunited Helen with her spacesuit along with television presenter Dallas Campbell,…