From Big Bang to human consciousness in twelve episodes

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Channel: Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press) · 2015 · Education

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Jim Baggott, author of Origins: The Scientific Story of Creation, explores the start of the universe. http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198707646.do

Jim Baggott is an award-winning science writer. He trained as a scientist, completing a
doctorate in chemical physics at the University of Oxford in the early 80s, before embarking
on post-doctoral research studies at Oxford and at Stanford University in California. His many
books include Higgs: The Invention and Discovery of the ‘God Particle’ and A Quantum Story:
A History in 40 Moments, both published by Oxford University Press.

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