PODCAST · education
World-changing
by University of Glasgow
Our World-changing podcast series celebrates staff and alumni of the University of Glasgow whose innovations, discoveries or developments in the last century have changed the world
Episodes
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Organic crystallography: the work of John Monteath Robertson
Dr Marie-Claire Parker discusses the importance of J Monteath Robertson's work in x-ray crystallography and his resolution of the 'heavy atom' problem
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Edwin Morgan: Scotland's National Poet
Widely recognised as one of the foremost Scottish poets of his generation, Edwin Morgan was the first Poet Laureate for Glasgow and National Poet for Scotland.
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The first ultrasound: Ian Donald
Ian Donald was an outstanding obstetrician and inventor of the first diagnostic ultrasound machine.
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The world's first vaccine against a parasitic infection
In the late 1950s George Urquhart, William Mulligan, Frank Jennings, William Jarrett and Ian McIntyre, all members of staff at the Glasgow Veterinary School, developed the world's first vaccine against a parasitic infection in either humans or animals -- known as the Dictol Group, the five...
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Industrial Relations: Robertson and Cairncross
One of the leading industrial relations experts of his day, Donald Robertson, together with Alec Cairncross, pioneered multidisciplinary social and economic research
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Our World-changing podcast series celebrates staff and alumni of the University of Glasgow whose innovations, discoveries or developments in the last century have changed the world
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