Dr Adam Rutherford
Birthday: Born in in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK
Deathday: Alive
Born January 1975, Adam David Rutherford is a British geneticist, author, and broadcaster. He was an audio-visual content editor for the journal Nature for a decade, and is a frequent contributor to the newspaper The Guardian.
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The Big Questions
Character: Self
Nicky Campbell hosts a series of moral, ethical and religious debates....
The Cell
Character: Self - Presenter
Dr Adam Rutherford tells the extraordinary story of the scientific quest to discover the secrets of the cell and of life itself. Every living thing is made of cells, microscopic building blocks of almost unimaginable power and complexity....
Horizon
Character: Presenter
Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before....
The Beauty of Anatomy
Character: Himself - Presenter
Dr Adam Rutherford investigates the close relationship between discoveries in anatomy and the works of art that illustrate them....
The Gene Code
Character: Himself - Presenter
Dr Adam Rutherford explores the consequences of one of the biggest scientific projects of all time - the decoding of the entire human genome....
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10 Things You Need to Know About the Future
Character: Self
Horizon interviews some experts and looks at the matters which can change our lives in the future, like: climate change, the future of transport, energy production, gene therapy, artificial intelligence, among other things....
Theft of the Black Gods: The Superheroes
Character: Dr Adam Rutherford
Visionary filmmaker Abassi Okoro (Uncloaked) returns with a mind-blowing look into ancient African and Orisha origins of many of the Marvel and DC comic book superheroes and exposes how European culture and religion for over a 12,000 year span has historically appropriated the black Gods of old....
The Horizon Guide to AI
Character: Narrator
The BBC's Horizon programme began in 1964, and since then has produced films looking at computer technology and the emergence of 'artificial intelligence'. Our dreams always begin with ideology and optimism, only for this optimism to be replaced with suspicion that AI machines will take over. However, as the Horizon archive shows, throughout each decade once we have learnt to live with the new emerging technology of the time, the pattern begins again. We become once more optimistic, before beco...