Many of us know of Burke and Hare, the infamous grave robbers, but John Hunter and his pioneering surgery was also a grave robber.
Scientific progress is valuable, vital even. It might be that occasionally we reveal a monster. Understanding the atom did indeed give us the nuclear bomb, but that knowledge also opened up so many other opportunities.
The notorious Newgate Jail was the final residence of many unfortunates in the 19th century, on their way to the gallows.
Professor Giovanni Aldini was a scientists convinced he could restore life through the application of electrical current.
All work done by British scientists is checked and validated by other scientists, in a process known as Peer Review, before publication.
This provides a method of checks to ensure the highest quality of scientific research.
The Scientific Method, devised by Sir Isaac Neton, is a way to observe the natural world and develop and test theories to prove their veracity.
This method allowed the allies to break the Enigma, and subsequent Tunny, code at Bletchley Park.
Sir Isaac Newton was the first commoner to be buried in Westminster Abbey. He was a brilliant scientist who pioneered the Scientific Method.
Now, the prevailing scientific view was that sunlight must be perfect. This dated all the way back to Aristotle and the Ancient Greeks. How could something that comes from the heavens be anything other than perfect?
Henry Cavendish was not the sterotypical scientist, but he was a great experimental man of science and instrumental forming the Royal Institution.
Count Rumford of Bavaria, Henry Cavendish and Joseph Banks were the three men who founded the Royal Institution.
Richard Borcherds might appear eccentric to the point of obsessiveness. But, he is just a driven mathematician.
Professor Simon Baron-Cohen studies the psychology of scientists and has discovered that many of them share some specific characteristics.
Science Britannica looks back on 350 years of scientific breakthrough including the vast quantities of bad press that accompanied it.
Mad scientists are seldom insane and even more rarely are they bad – perhaps somewhat misguided at worst.
Winning is all about playing the odds and taking your chance. Professor du Sautoy explains the probabilities mathematically.
Monopoly is a fun game for all the family, but understanding the probabilities will boost your chance of winning.
Discover how mathematics can be used to both make and break the strongest codes. Even supposedly uncrackable codes.
We look at early morse code, baudot code and the more sophisticated public key / private key combinations.
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