Jacob Bronowski

Jacob Bronowski was a mathematician who worked on wartime operational research and studied the effects of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, later turning to biology. His 1973 BBC series The Ascent of Man, a 13-part history of science as human culture, was largely unscripted to camera. The episode filmed at Auschwitz, where he speaks about the dangers of certainty, is one of the most quoted moments in science television.