Vega Science Trust

The Vega Science Trust website was set up to give scientists who are experts in their fields a broadcasting platform. This platform was to inform students, teachers and the public directly about scientific matters that are both exciting and of concern.

The Trust, managed by Gill Watson from 1991-2004, has produced over 300 programmes for the internet. 50 have been shown on BBC2.

Scientists include

• Bell-Burnell
• Blakemore
• Dresselhouse
• Ernst
• Feynman
• Greenfield
• Iijima
• Klemperer
• Lucas
• McGlade
• Perutz
• Rotblat
• Sanger
• Sulston
• Tonomura
• Townes
• Walker
• and many are Nobel Laureates