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Horizon: The Amateur Scientist

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

Our changing view of the universe.

Has science become so expensive and complex today that the amateur can no longer participate? Tonight we meet a few of the amateurs who are participating; they include a radio astronomer, a microscopist, a palaeoanthropologist, and a Scottish Minister of the Church who is a world expert on computing the position of comets.
The programme is introduced by C. L. Stong the writer of the monthly column on amateur science in the Scientific American.
A monthly series
See page 30

Contributors

Speaker:
A radio astronomer [name uncredited]
Speaker:
A microscopist [name uncredited]
Speaker:
A palaeoanthropologist [name uncredited]
Speaker:
A Scottish Minister of the Church [name uncredited]
Presenter:
C. L. Stong
Cameraman:
Ewart Needham
Cameraman:
Bill Munn
Sound recordist:
Jack Curtis
Sound recordist:
John Woodiwiss
Film editor:
Roy Fry
Production assistant:
John Dutot
Commentator:
Derek Cooper
Producer:
Ramsay Short
Series editor:
Gordon Rattray Taylor
Source: Radio Times

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