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VOICES OF SCIENCE tells the stories of some of the most remarkable scientific and engineering discoveries of the past century using oral history interviews with prominent British scientists and engineers.
Listen and watch short audio and video clips of scientists and engineers talking candidly about their motivations, frustrations, triumphs, colleagues, families and childhoods.
Listen and watch short audio and video clips of scientists and engineers talking candidly about their motivations, frustrations, triumphs, colleagues, families and childhoods.
"If you’re the only one, if you fail, you fail for all women, and they say, ‘Well we tried one of those and she was awful.’ Whereas if you succeed, it’s also remembered, but somehow the presumption is that, 'We had her and she was good; at least we’ll try another one and see if it works again'."
- Dame Stephanie Shirley, Computer scientist, entrepreneur and philanthropist
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