Kim Shillinglaw, head of commissioning science and natural history, said: "Sir Patrick Moore inspired generations of astronomers and I hope that alongside the BBC's other astronomy content, such as BBC2's Stargazing Live, The Sky at Night will enthuse further generations about the wonder of the night sky".
Kim Shillinglaw, head of commissioning science and natural history, said: "Sir Patrick Moore inspired generations of astronomers and I hope that alongside the BBC's other astronomy content, such as BBC2's Stargazing Live, The Sky at Night will enthuse further generations about the wonder of the night sky". Losing its BBC1 slot is likely to deprive the show of its biggest audiences.
As Dan Sarewitz has argued in Nature, science funders could learn lessons from the achievements of the military-industrial complex, which successfully commissioned successful science during the Cold War, to fund meaningful science in other areas The case of neglected diseases shows that alternatives are possible.
Commissioned by Tom McDonald, Acting Head of Commissioning, Science and Natural History.
Cast your mind back to January 1999, when then-editor Joan Juliet Buck commissioned a science-themed issue which included quantum physics, evolution as imagined by Herb Ritts, and chaos theory illustrated in puff pastry.
Surely not because not funny?" Before she took over from her predecessor Janice Hadlow in 2014, Shillinglaw was head of commissioning for science and natural history and helped to bring Brian Cox to the small screen in Wonders of the Universe, as well as having a key hand in BBC2's Springwatch and Stargazing Live.
Starting on March 23, the team began commissioning the science instruments.
Yale University science historian Daniel Kevles warned us about paying too much attention to Vannevar Bush's Science, the Endless Frontier report on the future of U.S. science, commissioned by President Franklin Roosevelt as World War II drew to a close.
When it appeared, in 2002, the South African Journal of Science commissioned two reviews.
The diary began to fill up, and among the jobs on offer was a newly commissioned radio comedy science fiction series: Hitchhiker's.
