This is a clip from a longer talk where physicist Jim Al-Khalili takes you through 100 years of quantum revolution, from Heisenberg's 1925 breakthrough to the technologies reshaping our world right now. Watch here: https://youtu.be/k-0pky806Fo
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This Discourse was recorded at the Ri on 7 November 2025, in partnership with the Institute of Physics.
Jim Al-Khalili CBE FRS is a quantum physicist, author, broadcaster and science communicator. He is Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Surrey, where he continues research in quantum foundations and quantum biology. He has written fifteen books, translated into over twenty-six languages, and is best known in the UK for his BBC Radio 4 programme, The Life Scientific.
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