The Big Science Debate: A Biological Century?

Biology And Physics – The Next 50 Years

Please join us for the second of our summer debates:

7pm on Monday 8 June 2009.

Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9AG.

Tickets online or from the Box Office on 020 7520 1490 or tickets@kingsplace.co.uk.

Price £9.50 online

Physics, biology and chemistry have all helped define the 20th century. Many world-changing innovations from physics include electric power, the microchip and the internal combustion engine. In biology and chemistry, an agricultural revolution has helped to feed a growing population. But some of these advances have also helped to create climate change and a rate of species-loss not seen since the last mass extinction.

What will physics and biology look like 50 years from now? And what might the impacts be?

Join three distinguished speakers ¾ a physicist, a biologist and a historian ¾ as they cast their gaze into the future of science, and its possible impacts. Will we resolve the riddle of dark matter and dark energy? Will string theory remain the best candidate for unifying the forces of nature? Will stem cells have fulfilled their promise and what of the potential of GM crops in agriculture?

Join the Nature Big Science Debate at 7 pm on Monday 8 June

Speakers:

David Edgerton, Professor of the History of Science, Imperial College London

Lewis Wolpert, Professor of Biology as Applied to Medicine, University College London

Alison Wright, Editor of Nature Physics

Chair: Ehsan Masood, Acting Chief Commissioning Editor, Nature

Host: Nick Campbell, Managing Editor, Nature

For more info on The Nature Debate series, please email naturedebates@nature.com