0: 14 December 2023 - Introduction to Pennine Pioneers of Science

My name is Gurbir Singh. I am an independent writer on space, history and science. The industrial revolution that spread across the globe started here in Manchester. It was science that made it possible.

In this series of “Pennine Pioneers of Science” I will profile the lives and achievements of people who have lived and worked where you and I live today. You may be familiar with names such as John Dalton (atomic theory), James Joule (energy), Ernest Rutherford (structure of the atom), Bernard Lovell (Jodrell Bank), Alan Turing (first stored program computer) and Andre Geim (Graphene). But the achievements of others such as physicist Gilbert Walker from Rochdale, J. J. Thompson from Cheetham Hill, astronomer William Crabtree from Salford and physicist James Chadwick from Bollington, are obscured by the mist of time.