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E03 | Bananas and Antimatter | Professor Tara Shears
28 minutes Posted Feb 19, 2018 at 11:59 am.
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Sixth form student Riley interviews Professor Tara Shears, a world leading particle physicist at Liverpool University and researcher at the Large Hadron Collider in CERN. Riley is preparing to study Chemistry in the hopes of becoming a Forensic scientist. He asks what it really takes to be a great scientist, how to cope with the disappointment of failed experiments and what in the world bananas have to do with antimatter.