The series, directed by leading Swiss filmmakers, profiles 25 outstanding researchers from a wide range of disciplines. We find out which projects top researchers are working on and what scientists are pondering in the 21st century.

The series was produced by the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SBC) in collaboration with the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Episode 10 The Quest for Other Worlds… (SNSF).

Episode 10 The Quest for Other Worlds – In 1995, two Swiss astrophysicists at Geneva University made a discovery that was to revolutionise modern astronomy. Michel Mayor, Professor of Astrophysics, and doctoral student Didier Queloz, observed the first planet outside our solar system, revolving around a star 42 light years away from earth. Twelve years later, they discovered Gliese581 c, a large terrestrial extra solar planet orbiting the red dwarf star, Gliese 581. They’re now trying to find out whether the potentially Earth-like planet is habitable.

Click on The Quest for Other Worlds to watch the video.

The series, directed by leading Swiss filmmakers, profiles 25 outstanding researchers from a wide range of disciplines. We find out which projects top researchers are working on and what scientists are pondering in the 21st century.

The series was produced by the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SBC) in collaboration with the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Episode 2 The Guardian of Our Climate, (SNSF).

In Episode 2, The Guardian of Our Climate, Swiss climatologist Thomas Stocker has one of the world’s most prestigious scientific jobs, co-chairing a working group of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. Stocker also heads the climate and environmental physics department at Bern University, a world leader in research into greenhouse gases. His team measures concentrations of the gas trapped in ice cores in Antarctica.

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