Great British Innovation Vote: Recent Episodes
Great British Innovation Vote
Vote for the greatest advances in science and engineering made during the last 100 years – and for the ones that are most likely to shape the coming century.
The votes, which will be launched on topbritishinnovations.org.uk (http://www.topbritishinnovations.org) in mid-March to coincide with National Science & Engineering Week, will feature Audioboos in which leading figures will vote for innovations and explain the reasons why they made their choice.
Richard Wiseman gives his big vote to the iconic small car, the mini.
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Alison Boyle, Science Museum Physics Curator, votes for the discovery of the Higgs Boson.
The Director of the Manchester Science Festival, Natalie Ireland celebrates the potential of Graphene.
The Baby computer, otherwise known as the small scale experimental machine, gets the vote of the Head of Collections at the Museum of Science and Industry.
BBC presenter, Fran Scott, is backing the small yet highly important innovation that is catseye road markings.
Kevin Fong, Wellcome Trust Public Engagement Fellow, gives his vote to the impressive Hubble Telescope.
Everyone uses computers for everything - science writer Georgina Ferry says the LEO computer was the first to show how electronic machines could multitask.
Molly Stevens is a Professor at Imperial College London and believes stem cells should get your vote.
Sue Ion is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and is backing nuclear engineering as her top innovation of the past century.
Professor Stephen Hawking's blackhole theory is one of the great British innovations. Does it get your vote?
Thousands of people have benefited from the medical innovation of plastic reconstructive surgery which is why BBC science presenter, medical doctor and anatomist, Alice Roberts, gives it her vote.
Bestselling author, Alex Bellos, talks about the mathematical power of biological chaos theory.
Monoclonal antibodies is 2012's UK young scientist of the year, Kirtana, favourite innovation of the past century.
The National Railway Museum's Director, Paul Kirkman, wants you to vote for the beautiful Mallard locomotive.
Boris Jardine is one of the Science Museum's curators and he believes that X-ray crystollagraphy should be recognised as the top innovation of the past century.
The Science writer, Simon Singh, is backing the theory of General Relativity. Why? Have a listen to find out.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) changed the way medics work with the human body and that is why David Delpy, the Chief Executive of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, chose it as his innovation.
Raspberry Pi will revolutionize the way we think and use computers, that is why Tilly Blyth, the Science Museum's Keeper of Science and Technology, gives it her vote.
Many scientific breakthroughs in the past century have been British says Professor Stephen Hawking.
Scott Steedman, Director of Standards at BSI, nominates Finite Element Analysis for the way it transformed engineering today.
Lovelock's electron capture detector gave us a profound new understanding of how our world works and gets the Science Museum's Director, Ian Blatchford's, vote.
From understanding the Universe to diagnosing disease, Cassini-Huygens has it all says British space scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock.
The structure of DNA is just one example of great british innovation in the Great British Innovation Vote. To find out more go to www.topbritishinnovations.org.uk
The Secretary of State for Business Innovation and Skills, Vince Cable, celebrates the accuracy of atomic clocks.
The Emitron Camera, the first fully electronic camera to be used in British broadcasting, is Michael Grade's greatest British innovation.
Gia, television presenter, technology writer and self proclaimed science groupie, believes Joceyln Bell's discovery of pulsars is one of the UK's greatest innovations.
Deborah Bull, Executive Director of the King’s Cultural Institute and former ballet dancer for The Royal Ballet, unpacks the reasons why the Charnley hip joint gets her vote.
Marcus du Sautoy, Professor of Mathematics and the Simonyi Professor at the University of Oxford, tells us why Fermats Last Theorem is his choice for the Great British Innovation Vote.
Sir John Parker, the President of the Royal Academy of Engineering, chose RADAR as the greatest British innovation of the past 100 years.
The President of the Royal Society, Sir Paul Nurse, celebrates the wonder that is penicillin.
Martyn Poliakoff, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society, reveres the wonderful versatilality of polythene.
Mark Miodownik, for the BBC's Genius of Invention, is excited about the potential of plastic electronics.
The Science Museum's inventor in residence, Mark Champkins is going to vote for floatglass.
Judith Hann, broadcaster and writer, believes the discovery of the double helix trumps all other scientific breakthroughs.
Sir John Armitt, civil engineer and former chairman of the Olympic delivery authority, commends the tilting train innovation.
Quantum dots are going to change the world says Jim Al-Khalili, British theoretical physicist, author and broadcaster. That's why they get his vote.
Optical fibres have changed how we communicate, Chi Onwurah, the member of parliament for Newcastle Central, tells us how.
Roger Highfield, author, journalist and Director of External Affairs at the Science Museum, votes for metamaterials. Have a listen to see why.
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