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Who is your Scientist of the Millennium?

The panel discuss listeners' nominees for scientist of the millennium

The panel discuss listeners' nominees for scientist of the millennium. Nominations include traveller and naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace; Raymond Dart, discoverer of the first Australopithicus; Carlos Chagas who discovered the cause and prevention of sleeping sickness in Brazil; Max Theiler who discovered yellow fever virus; Nikola Tesla for discovering alternating current; and pioneering physicist Lise Meitner.

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成人快手 World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project

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