Professor Jim Al-Khalili
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535 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 15 Jun
Professor Jim Al-Khalili’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You're nothing more than a teenage enthusiast, right?
And you're telling these people at the museum, you have a real fossil here.
Incredible.
Well, at that point, Dean, you reached out to the experts you'd met at your Wyoming trip for advice on how to write this up as a scientific paper.
Yeah.
Well, by this point, you must have figured out that a scientific paper is not a newspaper.
And this was in fact published in 2010.
What did you make of that process?
All scientists have to publish their research in journals and that's something we have to do.
But you hadn't particularly enjoyed school.
So was this sort of academic work more fun for you?
And the cherry on the icing of this remarkable story is that this fossil turned out to be a previously unknown species of ichthyosaur.
So a few years later, you actually got to name it.
So there you were, volunteering at the museum, your first publication under your belt, and you decided the next logical step was to write a book.
Fossils of the Whitby Coast was published in 2011.
How did that happen?
I mean, look, let's take stock then, Dean Lomax, because as you say, you're just 21, already a published author, but with no formal qualifications and still volunteering at the local museum.
I mean, you still had to earn a living.
That's it, yeah.
But you obviously had a real belief in yourself and where you wanted to go.
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