Obituary: Ian Wilmut
…Colin Tudge) and After Dolly: The Uses and Misuses of Human Cloning (2006, with Roger Highfield). After a long illness, Sir Ian died on the morning of 10 September 2023….
Bringing Surgery To Life – If You've Got The Gall For It…
…passed into the patient’s body through tiny holes in the skin. The project has been led by Roger Kneebone, Professor of Surgical Education at Imperial College London. Roger was a…
Silk fragment goes on display
…studio set up by artist and critic Roger Fry. Conservator Kate prepares to install the painted silk item in its new display at the Science Museum. The piece is fitting…
Back to the future of Christmas
…a pie, and some buns. © Science Museum Group. My 1997 vintage Christmas Day 2020 culminated with a ‘virtual Highfield family reunion’ in an online space designed by Disney imagineers,…
Back To The Future Of Electronic Music
…there making music in the 1960s and 70s, when futuristic electronic sounds were being experimented with for the very first time. Dick Mills, Roger Limb and Steve Marshall had all…
In Space, No One Can Hear Country Music
…who created the music with his brother Roger and Daniel Lanois – was very tickled by the astronaut’s choice, and so incorporated slide guitar into the sound. BJ Cole (BJ…
Yes, (Science) Minister
…May. There were former vice-chancellors too, Sir John Ashworth (Salford and LSE), Sir Alan Wilson (Leeds), Sir Roger Williams (Reading) and the current VC of Queen Mary University of London,…
How Eddie Redmayne Mastered Stephen Hawking’s Voice
…working with Roger Penrose (played by Christian McKay) on how the laws of physics – notably Einstein’s law of gravity – sometimes break down, resulting in something called a spacetime…
50 years after Churchill: A tribute
…at the exclusive event were treated to Churchill’s favourite brand of champagne thanks to the generosity of Pol Roger. The exhibition is supported by players of People’s Postcode Lottery, The…
Photography and the Science Museum Group
…the Ellis daguerreotypes, as well as key work by Anna Atkins, Hill and Adamson, Lewis Carroll, Roger Fenton, Oscar Gustave Rejlander, Henry Peach Robinson, Peter Henry Emerson, Alfred Stieglitz and…
The Silver Swan
…Read, a clockmaker and conservator. At the same time, the Museum commissioned two historians, Roger Smith and John Martin Robinson, to research the history of the Swan and its makers….
Robot Surgery – the da Vinci Robot
…Vinci machine in the UK. Guardian Live: Robot Surgery, will be hosted by Professor Roger Kneebone, a long-time friend of the Science Museum and well known for his surgical simulations….