Jim Al-Khalili

Jim Al -Khalili (OBE; Jameel Sadik Al -Khalili, born September 20, 1962 in Baghdad, Iraq) is a British Professor of Theoretical Nuclear Physics, author and broadcaster.

Life

Al -Khalili was born on September 20, 1962 in Baghdad, the son of Iraqi Sadik Al -Khalili and the Englishwoman Jean Wheatcroft. Together with a brother and two sisters, he grew up in Iraq, before the family moved permanently in 1979 in the United Kingdom. There he devoted himself to the study of physics at the University of Surrey, where he graduated in 1986 as Bachelor. In this year he married his wife Julie further. As early as 1989 he reached the Doctor of Philosophy degree for his work in the field of theoretical nuclear physics. In the same year he was a Science and Engineering Research Council ( SERC ) grants Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers at University College London. In 1991 he returned to Surrey, where he initially worked as a research assistant and later as an assistant professor. In 1994, he advanced a five-year Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council ( EPSRC ) has awarded research fellowship, during which he established himself as an expert in the field of neutron halo nuclei. His publications include over 60 articles in international journals.

Today, Al -Khalili lives in Southsea in Hampshire with his wife Julie and their two children, David and Kate. After his appointment as Senior Lecturer in 2000, since 2005 he is professor of physics at the University of Surrey, where he is also a professor of Public Engagement in Science. His work as a lecturer so far extended over both the UK and across the rest of the world. In addition to teaching Al -Khalili is engaged in the British Association for the Advancement of Science, where he is an honorary member, in addition, he is a staff member at the Institute of Physics. Al -Khalili is since December 2012 also president of the British Humanist Association.

Among his most recent awards of the Public Awareness of Physics Award from the Institute of Physics (2000), the Royal Society Michael Faraday Prize for Science Journalism (2007) and was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE; 2008).

Activity in broadcasting

Al -Khalili, appears regularly on television and radio.

On television, he has contributed to several productions. This also applies to shipments with a scientific content, such as Tomorrow's World or BBC Horizon as for programs about art and culture, such as The South Bank Show. In 2007 he presented atom, a three-part program that documents the development of our understanding of the structure of atoms.

On the radio, Al -Khalili is a regular guest in the Radio 4 broadcast In Our Time.

Publications (selection)

  • Intermediate Energy Deuteron Elastic Scattering from Nuclei in a Three- Body Model, PhD Thesis, University of Surrey, 1989 Abstract

Jim Al -Khalili is the author, among other works of popular science:

  • Nucleus: A Trip into the Heart of Matter, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2001, ISBN 0-8018-6860-2
  • Black Holes, Wormholes and Time Machines German: Black holes, wormholes and time machines, translated by Heiner Must, Elsevier, Spektrum Akad Verlag, Munich and Heidelberg, 2004, ISBN 3-8274-1018-5
  • German: Quantum: Modern Physics to marvel, translated by Heiner Must, Elsevier, spectrum, Akda. Publishing 2004, ISBN 3-8274-1574-8
  • German: In the House of Wisdom. The Arab sciences as the foundation of our culture, translated by Sebastian Vogel, S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2011 ISBN 978-3-10-000424-6

His books have been partly translated into 13 languages.

A list of his books can be found on his website.

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