Tim Radford
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| Born | 1940 |
| Education | Sacred Heart College, Auckland |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist and writer |
| Notable credit(s) | Science editor at The Guardian, 1980–2005 |
| Children | 2 |
Tim Radford (born 1940) is a British–New Zealand freelance journalist, born in New Zealand in 1940 and educated at Sacred Heart College, Auckland.[1] At 16, he joined The New Zealand Herald as a reporter. He moved to the United Kingdom in 1961, working at first as a Whitehall information officer.
Radford worked for The Guardian newspaper for 32 years. Over the course of his career, he was letters editor, arts editor, literary editor, and science editor — holding the latter post from 1980 until 2005.[2] He also served on the UK committee for the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction. He is married with two adult children.[1]
Awards
[edit]Radford has won four Association of British Science Writers awards:[3]
- Lifetime achievement award for services to science journalism, 2004
- Best feature on science subject in a national or regional newspaper, 2004, for Touching the Void, published in The Guardian on 22 July 2004
- Best communication of science in a non-science context, 2001, for Tell us, Solly, published in the London Review of Books on 20 September 2001
- Other awards in 1992 and 1997
References
[edit]- ^ a b Radford, Tim (3 June 2008). "The Guardian writer profile". London. Retrieved 6 October 2012.
- ^ Radford, Tim (2011). "Of course scientists can communicate". Nature. 469 (7331): 445. Bibcode:2011Natur.469..445R. doi:10.1038/469445a. PMID 21270851. Retrieved 6 October 2012.
- ^ "Association of British Science Writers award winners". Retrieved 6 October 2012.
Bibliography
[edit]- The Consolations of Physics: Why the Wonders of the Universe can make you Happy (2018), 192 pages, Sceptre (August 2018), Paperback ISBN 978-1473658165
- The Address Book: Our Place in the Scheme of Things (2009), 224 pages, Fourth Estate (April 2011), Paperback ISBN 978-0007356294; Hardback ISBN 978-0007255207
- The Crisis of Life on Earth: Our Legacy from the Second Millennium (1990), 224 pages, Thorsons (October 1990), Hardback ISBN 978-0722521397
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