Scientists Vicent J. Martínez and Bernard J. T. Jones will be discussing the research carried out and published in their book ‘The Reinvention of Science’.
This talk will be chaired by Sonia Antoranz Contera - Professor of Biological Physics at Oxfrod Univesity and member of CERU-SRUK (Spanish Researchers working in the United Kingdom)
Vicent J. Martínez is a Spanish astronomer and professor at the University of Valencia, specialising in cosmology, particularly the study of the large-scale distribution of matter in the Universe and the formation and evolution of galaxies. He was a pioneer in the application of fractals in this field of research, as well as in the introduction of their study into university teaching in Spain. He is one of the authors of the giant planet with Trojans theory to explain the mysterious behaviour of Tabby's star.
A staunch advocate of scientific dissemination and the transmission of knowledge to society, he received the 2013 José María Savirón Prize for Scientific Dissemination for his work.
Bernard Jones is professor emeritus at the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute of the University of Groningen (Netherlands). His research has covered many areas of astrophysics, both theoretical and observational, with a strong emphasis on cosmology, where he is widely published and cited. He is the author of the recent and acclaimed book Precision Cosmology: the first half million years (CUP 2017) and of ‘The Reinvention of Science: Slaying the Dragons of Dogma and Ignorance’, co-authored with Vicent Martínez and Virginia.
