Jim Al Khalili Facts
Jim Al Khalili Facts
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| Al-Kahlili was born in Baghdad, Iraq to an Iraqi father and a British mother. |
| He graduated with a B.S. in Science from the University of Surrey in 1986 and received his PhD in nuclear reaction theory in 1989. |
| In 1989 he received a Science and Engineering Research Council postdoctoral fellowship to the University College, London. |
| In 1991 he returned to Surrey and in 1994 he received an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Advanced Research Fellowship. |
| He is was elected to Senior Lecturer at the University of Surrey in 2001. |
| In 2003 he was elected to the Council of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. |
| He is recognized as a leading expert on mathematical models of atomic nuclei and has published many articles in that field. |
| His primary research has been in the area of few-body quantum scattering methods to study nuclear structure. |
| He pioneered the application of few-body Glauber methods in nuclear scattering and is currently studying light nuclei using electromagnetic probes. |
| He collaborates with other nuclear scientists in Europe, the US and Canada in research on exotic nuclear beams. |
| In October 2006 he was elected to the new Chair in the Public Engagement in Science in recognition of his efforts of public education in the field of science. |
| His books include Black Holes, Wormholes and Time Machines (1999), Nucleus: A Trip into the Heart of Matter (2001). Quantum: A Guide for the Perplexed (2004) and Paradox: The Nine greatest Enigmas in Science (2012). |
| From 2008 to 2011 he was Vice President of the British Science Association. |
| In 2007 he received the Royal Society Michael Faraday Prize for science communication and was elected an Honorary Fellow of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. |
| He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and in 2000 received the Institute's Public Awareness of Physics Award. |
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