Jocelyn Bell Burnell detected the first pulsar, a rapidly rotating and strongly magnetised neutron star emitting regular pulses of radio waves. (Originally broadcast 24th September 2005)

Erwin Schrodinger who was Head of the School of Theoretical Physics in the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies from 1940 - 1956. (Originally broadcast 17th September 2005)

George Stokes laid the foundation of the modern engineering science of fluid mechanics and was a pioneer in the science of geodesy. (Originally broadcast 10th September 2005)