Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution

Lecture Programme 2010-11


 

September 2010

 

28 The Secret Mathematician                                                                                                                                                       Marcus du Sautoy, Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford

 

October 2010

 

05  The Beneficial Use of Genetic Information                                                                                                                 Bernadette Modell, Emeritus Professor of Community Genetics, University College London

 

12  Writing an autobiography, and why one should attempt it                                                                                           Diana Athill, publisher and writer

 

19  Searching for the Gleam: the quest for solutions in 1930s Britain

Juliet Gardiner, social historian and author of The Thirties: An Intimate History

 

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