Season 2 · Episode 13 — Dr. Joseph Needham / Mariner IV
This episode of Horizon features Dr. Joseph Needham, an eminent scientist and humanist who is perhaps the greatest living authority on China. An account of the space probe Mariner IV which will be flying past Mars tonight.
Season 2 episodes
E1At a time when the use of teaching machines is fast expanding, Horizon looks at the principles behind them and enquires into their success
E2Horizon profiles the Bell Laboratories in the United States. They are one of the most important research and development centers where more…
E3Horizon explores American plans to launch a space observatory to map the universe and learn how stars are created.
E4Horizon looks at the relationship between science and art, and also explores artists attitudes towards science.
E5Horizon investigates the states of big research computers in Britain. Also, Horizon looks at the H-Bomb Detectors and how British scientist…
E6Is there a fifth force in the Universe, or must we revise our ideas about time? Horizon visits the Rutherford High Energy Laboratory where…
E7Prof. Andrade presents a tribute to Robert Hooke: architect, astronomer, geologist, and meteorologist who discovered the cell. This episode…
E8Every day, on average, another 431 British women start taking the contraceptive pill. The manufacturers insist that it is the most carefull…
E9Nine years after the passing of the Clean Air Act, where do we stand? Scientists are gradually finding out why dirty air Is so harmful to i…
E10When a rubber tyre rolls fast on a wet surface it may rise on a film of water and begin to 'aquaplane.' Scientists are studying this fact w…
E11Horizon looks at Prof. Perry Gilbert's research on captured sharks and meets with the eminent physiologist Sir Henry Dale as he celebrates…
E12Dr. Jacob Bronowski, who a year ago took up the deputy directorship of the Salk Institute in California, discusses with Tom Rosenthal his n…
E13This episode of Horizon features Dr. Joseph Needham, an eminent scientist and humanist who is perhaps the greatest living authority on Chin…
E14Is all science fiction merely fantasy - or can it give valuable clues to the future? A discussion between Desmond Morris and the ethologist…
E15The four men who opened up a new field of physics: Max Born, Paul Dirac, Werner Heisenberg and George Thompson meet and discuss topic with…
E16Professor Harold Edgerton of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who has won international recognition for his achievements in ultra…
E17Horizon interviews Prof. Andrade about his collection of rare scientific books which he was about to sell.
E18On the 300th anniversary of Isaac Newton's greatest year of discovery, one of his most ardent disciples, Prof. Julius Summer-Miller, comes…
E19What sort of person can invent a 3-D microscope, a new way of photographing the moon, publish fifty papers on perception, and spend three w…
E20Horizon explores heart attacks and thrombosis.
E21Horizon probes into the Etruscan tombs in Italy. Carlo Lerici, scientist and archaeologist, has brought past and future together. Using geo…
E22Horizon profiles the scientist, polymath, and Nobel prize winner Prof. Albert Szent-Gyorgi.
E23A look at some of the huge new radio telescopes which have recently started work in Britain, France, Russia, America, and elsewhere. Sir Be…
E24Horizon re-stages highlights from Professor C. V. Boys's famous Christmas lectures on bubbles and surface tension which drew crowds to the…