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World Service,10 Dec 1999,24 mins

Who is your Scientist of the Millennium?

Science In Action

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The panel discuss listeners' nominees for scientist of the millennium. Nominations include traveller and naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace; Raymond Dart, discoverer of the first Australopithicus; Carlos Chagas who discovered the cause and prevention of sleeping sickness in Brazil; Max Theiler who discovered yellow fever virus; Nikola Tesla for discovering alternating current; and pioneering physicist Lise Meitner.

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