Dame Pratibha Gai discusses her ‘Life Scientific’
Posted on Wednesday 11 June 2025
Dame Pratibha Gai has spent much of her career pioneering novel microscopes to bring the seemingly inaccessible atomic world into sharp focus. Now Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at the University of York, her microscope, known as the environmental transmission electron microscope, is housed in labs around the world. It allows scientists, like herself, to observe chemical reactions in real-time, in exquisite atomic detail, and tinker with them to create products that are not only better for all of us, but also the environment.
In conversation with Professor Jim Al-Khalili on ‘The Life Scientific’, Emeritus Professor Pratibha Gai of York Chemistry/Jeol Nanocentre discusses her career in developing the environmental transmission electron microscope.
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The full interview can be found on BBC Sounds.