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Heinz Wolff
Heinz Wolff (born 29 April 1928) FIEE. FIBES FRCP (Hon) FRSA is a German-British scientist, and television and radio presenter. He is known for his television series ''The Great Egg Race''. == Life and career == Wolff was born in Berlin, but aged 11 he moved to Britain with his family. The family arrived on the day World War II broke out. After school at the City of Oxford High School for Boys〔(The Independent: "Passed/Failed: An education in the life of Professor Heinz Wolff, scientist and broadcaster" )〕 he worked at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford under Robert Gwyn Macfarlane,〔 and at the Pneumoconiosis Research Unit near Cardiff, before going on to University College London, where he gained a first class honours degree in Physiology and Physics. He spent much of his early career in bioengineering, a term which he himself coined in 1954 to take account of then recent advances in physiology. He became an honorary member of the European Space Agency in 1975, and in 1983 he founded the Brunel Institute for Bioengineering, which is involved in biological research during weightless space-flight. Wolff was the scientific director and co-founder of Project Juno, the private British-Soviet joint venture which sent Helen Sharman to the Mir space station.
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