18 April 2007

Professor Lord Robert Winston to give talk - 25th April

Professor Lord Robert Winston, who pioneered IVF and has made science more accessible through his TV programmes, is to give a lecture in the University of Dundee’s Greatest Minds series.

Professor Lord Winston is one of the most exciting and controversial scientists working today and his talks attract world wide attention and debate. He has devoted his life to the development of techniques for helping people who are having trouble conceiving and he founded the first NHS IVF Programme. His research has enabled families with a history of a particular genetic disease to have children free of fatal illnesses and his improvements in fertility medicine have subsequently been adopted world-wide.

He will deliver a new lecture, The Science Delusion. It will, he says, "look at the nature of human uncertainty and argues that it is as equally ‘deluded’ to believe that Science has all the answers as it is to profess a belief in God. Both are critically important in the history of humanity and both religion and science have important and valuable contributions to make about the nature of the world around us."

He regularly presents BBC science programmes including ‘Child of Our Time’, ‘Your Life in Their Hands’, ‘Making Babies’, ‘The Human Body’, ‘Secret Life of Twins’, ‘The Superhuman’ and, most recently, the Emmy nominated ‘Human Instinct’. His programme on DNA, ‘The Threads of Life’ won the international Science Prize in Paris last year and he recently won the VLV Award for the most outstanding personal contribution to British television in 2003.

Tickets are free but strictly limited, so book fast.

'THE SCIENCE DELUSION' by Professor Lord Robert Winston.
25th April, Bonar Hall - 6pm.
Tickets available on events@dundee.ac.uk OR from Tower Reception.

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