Sentences with word «populariser»

Few whose careers have peaked in the past twenty years have made it past this cut - off date, and those are mostly people who are distinguished as popularisers of science.

In The Perfect Swarm, science populariser Len Fisher ranges far and wide to discover what tips the science of complexity has for us.

And he was a consummate astronomical populariser, broadcaster and science - fiction novelist.

That is starting to happen with the arrival of such popularisers as Andrea Sella of University College London.

Perhaps the one hope is that popularisers like Gould will finally get the message across.

Clark is best known for his acclaimed 1969 TV series Civilisation but he was also a vital champion of British artists, the man who transformed the National Gallery and one of the most effective and passionate popularisers of the arts.

Lawrence Krauss, a physicist, tireless science populariser and author of The Physics of Star Trek, has crafted a rich and entertaining biography of the man he describes...

Wickramasinghe and well known astronomer, writer, and populariser of science Sir Fred Hoyle, now an associate of the centre, pioneered a forerunner to modern astrobiology with their theory of «panspermia» in the 1970s.

But Al - Khalili is best known for his role as a populariser of science on the airwaves, regularly hosting The Life Scientific on BBC Radio 4, in which he explores the lives of notable scientists.

Isaac Asimov, the veteran science populariser and writer of science fiction, has died in New York, aged 72.

Robin Ince is a stand - up comic and science populariser.