The British Library has begun a three-year project to create a vast, online oral history and archive of British science. The project will see 200 British scientists interviewed and their recollections recorded for the audio library. It is planned that this will start to fill in the gap that there are very few recordings of many of Britain's scientific greats! For example there are only two recordings of Ernest Rutherford and NONE of Alan Turing, Christopher Cockerel nor Nobel Laureate A V Hill. The project will be jointly run by the British Library, National Life Stories (a charity) and the Science Museum!
Your Thursday questions are: -
- Who was born today in 1946 and was elected as President of the
governing body of world motor sport, the FIA, in 2009? - Which country did Ferdinand Marcos (right) leave today in 1986 after 20 years in power following a tainted election?
- Writer Anthony Burgess was born today in 1917 and had which of his novels turned into a cult 1971 film directed by Stanley Kubrick?
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