10:00am-4:00pm on Saturday 29 March
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Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road, CB2 1QP
Think poetry has nothing to do with science? Scientists are only human, and humans have always interpreted their experiences in verse.
In the 1700s, the natural philosopher Erasmus Darwin wrote an epic poem called The Lives of the Plants.
Cambridge astrophysicist Rebecca Elson produced a whole book of poems: A Responsibility to Awe.
Peter Redgrove, both poet and scientist, called poets “the scientists of the strange”... and maybe scientists are equally “the poets of the strange”.
Join Professor of Parasitology Catherine Merrick for poems about the nature of science and about her studies of malaria. Check out some malaria parasites and explore displays about vector-borne diseases. Displayed in the Dixon Room, with short readings at 12 and 2pm; booking recommended.
