Special Scientific Evening - An Ocean of Air - in association with the Royal Institution of Great Britain

Gabrielle Walker's new book, An Ocean of Air - A Natural History of the Atmosphere, is a revelatory history of how man came to understand the true elixir of life - air. In this special talk in association with the Royal Institution of Great Britain, Gabrielle will illuminate this most extraordinary and yet most underrated substance on earth: air.

Thin air miraculously transforms into food; our atmosphere soaks up flares from the sun that are more violent than a nuclear explosion; the air wraps our planet in a blanket of warmth; radio signals bounce off a layer of floating metal in the air.

Join us to hear the stories of the people who explored the ocean that is all around us: the air.

Gabrielle Walker is a features editor for New Scientist and has also written for The Economist and a host of other publications. She is a regular contributor to Radio 4. Gabrielle lives in London and is also the author of Snowball Earth.

Please note that this event was part of the 2006-07 Scientific Meetings programme

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Further Information: please contact Joy Miller, Scientific Meetings Coordinator, Zoological Society of London, Regents Park, London NW1 4RY.
Tel:+44 (0)20 7449 6227. Fax: +44 (0)20 7449 6411. E-mail: joy.miller@zsl.org.

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Gabrielle Walker's page on the Bloomsbury website