How life works: Dealing with biology’s changing narrative
We are excited that the 2025 CPM Annual Lecture will be given by Philip Ball. Philip Ball is a freelance writer and broadcaster, and was an editor at Nature for more than twenty years. He writes regularly in the scientific and popular media and has written many books on the interactions of the sciences, the arts, and wider culture, including H2O: A Biography of Water, Bright Earth: The Invention of Colour, The Music Instinct, and How Life Works. His book Critical Mass won the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books. Philip was the 2022 recipient of the Royal Society’s Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal for contributions to the history, philosophy or social roles of science. He trained as a chemist at the University of Oxford and as a physicist at the University of Bristol.
Date: 13 February 2025, 17:30
Venue: Sheldonian Theatre, Broad Street OX1 3AZ
Speaker: Philip Ball
Organising department: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics
Organisers: Catherine Lidbetter (Centre for Personalised Medicine), Thea Perry (Centre for Personalised Medicine)
Organiser contact email address: cpm@well.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Centre for Personalised Medicine Seminars
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/philip-ball-how-life-works-dealing-with-biologys-changing-narrative-tickets-1086930180429?aff=oddtdtcreator
Cost: Free
Audience: Public
Editor: Thea Perry