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Local Heroes - Season 5 - Nobel Prize Winners (Episode 4)

Plot: In an edition devoted to celebrating Britons who have won the Nobel Prize, Adam Hart-Davis lauds John Cockcroft's work on splitting the atom and Dorothy Hodgkin's discovery of the structure of penicillin. He also visits Ayrshire to explains how the instigator of the award, Alfred Nobel, came to invent dynamite after his brother's death
Episode Aired On:
Tuesday, June 6 2000
24 years ago