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Apr 1, 2007 · As a recent winner of the Biosciences Federation Science Communication Award, Dr Smith’s vision ‘is to help people enjoy science as much as we do and, at the same time, to have fun.’. Dr Smith’s work with The Naked Scientists is well supported by the research sponsors, including a £400K grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences ...
Aug 28, 2008 · Radio presenter and Cambridge academic Dr Chris Smith has won the Royal Society's prestigious Kohn Award for his success in bringing science to a wider audience, it was announced today. Communicating science to the public is so crucial for our society and I enjoy every minute of working on the Naked Scientists. Radio presenter and Cambridge ...
Nov 8, 2006 · Dr Jim Loftus, Discovery Recruitment Manager at Pfizer, the Award sponsor, said, “Both Chris Smith and Dave Goulson’s (runner up) contributions to science communication provide excellent examples of how scientific issues can be made interesting, interactive and, above all, informative for the public. We are pleased to sponsor this Award.”
Apr 9, 2015 · “Mountain gorillas are among the most intensively studied primates in the wild, but this is the first in-depth, whole-genome analysis,” says Dr Chris Tyler-Smith from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Mountain gorilla genome study provides optimism about population numbers | University of Cambridge
Dec 4, 2014 · Chris Smith, an Honorary Fellow of Pembroke since 2004, took a double first in English at Pembroke and was President of the Union Society. His PhD was devoted to the idea of solitude in Romantic poetry, with reference to Wordsworth and Coleridge.
Oct 23, 2008 · Dr Chris Smith, of the Naked Scientists fame, represents pathologists who help treat disease. As a virologist he plays a role behind the hospital scenes diagnosing diseases and helping to determine treatment programmes. ‘Finding Rachel’ sees the Silent Witness team investigating the death of a British medical student in Zambia.
Dec 4, 2015 · The University of Cambridge announced today the gift of £35 million from the estate of Ray Dolby, founder of Dolby Laboratories and its world-renowned Dolby Noise Reduction, Dolby Surround, and successor audio signal processing technologies, which have revolutionised the audio quality of music, motion pictures, and television worldwide.
May 10, 2023 · Smith is a mathematician who deals with symplectic manifolds and their interaction with algebraic geometry, low-dimensional topology and dynamics. In 2007, he received the Whitehead Prize for his work in symplectic topology, highlighting the breadth of applied techniques from algebraic geometry and topology, and in 2013 the Adams Prize.
Mar 10, 2017 · Reverend Smith’s collection of 242 photographs is held at Cambridge’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and now forms part of a collection that numbers around 650 images from the Congo Basin, many of them still on their original glass plates.
River activists gather in Cambridge to share their knowledge, passion and battle plans for chalk streams, one of the world’s rarest and most vulnerable habitats. Thirty years ago, in 1993, Britain’s Prime Minister morphed into a man-sized dragonfly larva. This memorable punishment, meted out by Ted Hughes’ The Iron Woman, comes as revenge ...
