Jim Al-Khalili
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Citizenship | United Kingdom |
Education | Priory School, Portsmouth[5] |
Alma mater | University of Surrey (BSc, PhD) |
Known for | The Life Scientific |
Spouse | Julie Frampton[4] |
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Thesis | Intermediate Energy Deuteron Elastic Scattering from Nuclei in a Three-Body Model (1989) |
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Jameel Sadik "Jim" Al-Khalili
In 2014, Al-Khalili was named as a RISE (Recognising Inspirational Scientists and Engineers) leader by the UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).[6][7] He was President of Humanists UK between January 2013 and January 2016.[8][9][10]
Early life and education
Al-Khalili was born in Baghdad in 1962.[4] His father was an Iraqi Air Force engineer, and his English mother was a librarian.[5] Al-Khalili settled permanently in the United Kingdom in 1979.[4] After completing (and retaking) his A-levels over three years until 1982,[5] he studied physics at the University of Surrey and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1986. He stayed on at Surrey to pursue a Doctor of Philosophy degree in nuclear reaction theory, which he obtained in 1989, rather than accepting a job offer from the National Physical Laboratory.[11]
Career and research
In 1989, Al-Khalili was awarded a Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) postdoctoral fellowship at University College London, after which he returned to Surrey in 1991, first as a research assistant, then as a lecturer.[12] In 1994, Al-Khalili was awarded an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Advanced Research Fellowship for five years,[13] during which time he established himself as a leading expert on mathematical models of exotic atomic nuclei. He has published widely in his field.[2][14]
Al-Khalili is a professor of physics at the University of Surrey, where he also holds a chair in the Public Engagement in Science.[15] He has been a trustee (2006–2012) and vice president (2008–2011) of the British Science Association.[16] He also held an EPSRC Senior Media Fellowship.[13]
Al-Khalili was awarded the
In 2007, he was a judge on the BBC
He was appointed
Broadcasting
As a broadcaster, Al-Khalili is frequently on television and radio and also writes articles for the British press.[28][29] In 2004, he co-presented the Channel 4 documentary The Riddle of Einstein's Brain, produced by Icon Films.[30] His big break as a presenter came in 2007 with Atom, a three-part series on BBC Four about the history of our understanding of the atom and atomic physics.[31] This was followed by a special archive edition of Horizon, "The Big Bang".[32]
In early 2009, Al-Khalili presented the BBC Four three-part series
Al-Khalili hosts a regular "Jim meets..." interview series at the
Awards and honours
- 2007 – Royal Society Michael Faraday Prize for science communication
- 2008 – Appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2008 Birthday Honours
- 2013 – Warwick Prize for Writing, shortlist, Pathfinders
- 2014 – RISE leader award[40]
- 2013 – Honorary Doctor of Science, Royal Holloway, University of London[24]
- 2016 – Inaugural winner of the Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication[41]
- 2017 – Honorary Doctorate, University of York[42]
- 2018 – Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)[25]
- 2019 – Honorary Doctor of Science, University of St Andrews[43]
- 2019 – Outstanding Achievement in Science & Technology at The Asian Awards.[44]
- 2021 - Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), "for Services to Science and Public Engagement in STEM."[27]
- 2022 – Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Birmingham
- 2023 - Elected Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Personal life
Al-Khalili lives in
Documentaries
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- The Riddle of Einstein's Brain (2004)
- Atom (2007)
- Battle for the Beginning (2008)
- Science and Islam (2009)
- Genius of Britain: The Scientists Who Changed the World (2010)
- The Secret Life of Chaos (2010)
- Chemistry: A Volatile History (2010)
- Everything and Nothing (2011)
- Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity (2011)
- Order and Disorder (2012)
- Light and Dark (2013)
- The Secrets of Quantum Physics (2014)
- Britain's Nuclear Secrets: Inside Sellafield (2015)
- The Beginning and End of the Universe (2016)
- Britain's Nuclear Bomb: The Inside Story (2017)
- Gravity and Me: The Force That Shapes Our Lives (2017)
- The Joy of AI (2018)
- Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World (2019)
- Secrets of the Solar System (2020)
- Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies (2022)
Publications
A list of Jim Al-Khalili's peer reviewed research papers can be found on Google Scholar[2] and Scopus.[7] His published books include:
- Al-Khalili, Jim (1999). Black Holes, Wormholes and Time Machines.
- Nucleus: A Trip into the Heart of Matter (2001) (co-author)
- Al-Khalili, Jim (2004). Quantum: A Guide for the Perplexed.
- The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance (2010)
- a.k.a. The House of Wisdom: The Flourishing of a Glorious Civilisation and the Golden Age of Arabic Science
- a.k.a. Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science[49]
- Paradox: The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Science (2012)[50]
- Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology (2014) (co-author)
- Al-Khalili, Jim (26 January 2017). ISBN 978-0-7181-8627-2.
- Al-Khalili, Jim (7 February 2019). Gravity. illus. Jeff Cummins. London: ISBN 978-0-7181-8903-7.
- Al-Khalili, Jim (10 March 2020). The World According to Physics. ISBN 978-0-691-18230-8.
- Al-Khalili, Jim (5 April 2022). The Joy of Science. ISBN 978-0-691-21157-2.
- As editor
- The Euroschool Lectures on Physics with Exotic Beams, Vol. I (Lecture Notes in Physics) (2004)
- The Euroschool Lectures on Physics with Exotic Beams, Vol. II (Lecture Notes in Physics) (2006)
- The Euroschool Lectures on Physics with Exotic Beams, Vol. III (Lecture Notes in Physics) (2008)
- As consultant editor
- Al-Khalili, Jim (8 June 2004). Invisible Worlds: Exploring the Unseen. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 978-0-297-84342-9.
His essays, chapters and other contributions include:
- The Collins Encyclopedia of the Universe (2001)
- Scattering and Inverse Scattering in Pure and Applied Science (2001)
- Quantum Aspects of Life (2008)
- 30-second Theories: The 50 Most Thought-provoking Theories in Science (2009)
- Fiction
Jim Al-Khalili has written one science fiction novel:
- Al-Khalili, Jim (18 April 2019). Sunfall. London: ISBN 978-0-593-07742-9.
References
- ^ "2011 Kelvin Medal and Prize". Institute of Physics. Retrieved 2 November 2013.
- ^ a b c Jim Al-Khalili publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ^ Jim Al-Khalili at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.246627. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ a b c d Rutherford, Adam (2019). "Jim Al-Khalili on HIS life scientific". BBC.
- ^ "RISE Awards Announced". EPSRC. 31 March 2014. Retrieved 8 April 2014.
- ^ a b Jim Al-Khalili publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
- ^ "Jim Al-Khalili named President-elect of British Humanist Association". British Humanist Association. 14 December 2012. Retrieved 2 November 2013.
- ^ Jim Al-Khalili at The Guardian
- ^ Lecture on Alan Turing from the University of Edinburgh YouTube Channel. Posted 4 June 2012. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
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- ^ "University of Surrey: Professor Jim Al-Khalili". Retrieved 2 November 2013.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-118-40666-3.
- ^ Al-Khalili, Jim S. Author details, Scopus
- ^ "Professor Jim Al-Khalili OBE, theoretical physicist, University of Surrey". The Guardian. 2 February 2012. Retrieved 2 November 2013.
- ^ "Professor Jim Al-Khalili OBE". Royal Society. Retrieved 2 November 2013.
- ^ Al-Khalili, Jim (21 January 2008). "The Arabic Science That Prefigured Newton". The Guardian. England. Retrieved 17 March 2009.
- ^ "RSA – Jim Al-Khalili". Royal Society of Arts. Archived from the original on 4 November 2013. Retrieved 2 November 2013.
- ^ "Biographies of Science and Engineering Advisory Group members" (PDF). British Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 2 November 2013.
- ^ "Equality and Diversity Advisory Network". The Royal Society. Retrieved 2 November 2013.
- ^ "Judges Announcement". The Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. Retrieved 2 November 2013.
- ^ "No. 58729". The London Gazette (Supplement). 14 June 2008. p. 9.
- ^ "Gifford Lectures". ed.ac.uk. University of Edinburgh.
- ^ a b "Honorary degrees recognise contributions to science". Royal Holloway University of London. 26 March 2013. Retrieved 2 November 2013.
- ^ a b "Distinguished scientists elected as Fellows and Foreign Members of the Royal Society". Royal Society. 9 May 2018.
- ^ "Royal Academy of Engineering welcomes 73 new Fellows". Retrieved 4 October 2023.
- ^ a b "No. 63377". The London Gazette (Supplement). 12 June 2021. p. B9.
- IMDb
- ^ "Jim Al-Khalili". Journalisted. Archived from the original on 14 August 2012. Retrieved 2 November 2013.
- ^ "C4 to unlock secrets of Einstein's brain". Broadcast. 17 June 2004. Retrieved 2 November 2013.
- ^ Melville, Caspar (7 March 2013). "Facing the future: an interview with Jim Al-Khalili". Rationalist Association. Archived from the original on 11 August 2020. Retrieved 2 November 2013.
- ^ "Lost Horizons: The Big Bang". BBC Four. Retrieved 2 November 2013.
- ^ Jha, Alok (12 January 2009). "Science Weekly: What has the Islamic world ever done for science?". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 November 2013.
- ^ "Bang Goes the Theory: Top five weird physics facts". BBC One. 10 July 2011. Retrieved 2 November 2013.
- ^ Docherty, P. "Can we have some more?" Nature Chem 2, 701 (2010)
- ^ "The Life Scientific". Radio Four. Retrieved 2 November 2013.
- ^ "Jim Al-Khalili's new science series starts on Radio 4". University of Surrey. 7 October 2011. Archived from the original on 3 November 2013. Retrieved 2 November 2013.
- YouTube
- ^ "Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity". BBC Four. Retrieved 2 November 2013.
- ^ "RISE Awards Announced". 31 March 2014. Archived from the original on 2 October 2017. Retrieved 8 April 2014.
- ^ Nicola Davis (16 June 2016). "Winners of inaugural Stephen Hawking medal announced". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
- ^ Turnbull, Catherine (12 July 2017). "York University honours global experts". The Press. York. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
- ^ "Honorands 2019". University of St Andrews. 28 June 2019. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
- ^ "PROFESSOR JIM AL-KHALILI OBE". The Asian Awards. Retrieved 18 September 2019.
- ^ Jim Al-Khalili. Science Explorer: Jim Al-Khalili featured in The Life Scientific. BBC Radio 4.
I find it more comfortable to say I'm an atheist, and for that I probably have someone like Dawkins to thank.
- ^ "It's time to herald the Arabic science that prefigured Darwin and Newton". The Guardian. 30 January 2008. Retrieved 19 February 2010.
- ^ "Humanists UK Patron: Professor Jim Al-Khalili OBE". Humanists UK. Retrieved 9 February 2022.
- ^ "About: Find out more about the Guildford Institute and its mission".
- ^ Retitled to avoid confusion with The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization by Jonathan Lyons.
- ^ Heck, Peter (June 2013). "On Books". Asimov's Science Fiction. 37 (6): 108–111. Review of Paradox.