Prof. Sir John Beddington - Legacies of the 20th Century and

Prof. Sir John Beddington - Legacies of the 20th Century and Challenges for the 21st

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Professor Sir John Beddington, Former Government Chief Scientific Adviser, and Edinburgh alumnus, delivers the Enlightenment Lecture entitled Legacies of the 20th Century and Challenges for the 21st. This lecture also forms part of the 2014 Our Changing World lecture series. Recorded 19 November 2014 at the University of Edinburgh's McEwan Hall.

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