Science and Society
DR. ARCHIE CLOW has recorded recollections of the scientific thought and work of the 1930s from a number of the most distinguished scientists living in this country today. At that time, physicists were still adjusting themselves to the new quantum mechanics, the neutron was discovered and the meson predicted; biologists were seeing the vindication of Darwinism by R. A. Fisher ; chemists were involved in the beginnings of what has now become the industrial production of sulpha-drugs and plastics-and the now accepted practice of ' planned science ' was still highly controversial....
Produced by MICK RHODES
An extended version of the programme broadcast on December 10. 1965