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HALILI

University of Surrey

Institute of Physics Publishing

Bristol and Philadelphia

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About the Author

Jim Al-Khalili was born in 1962 and works as a theoretical

physicist at the University of Surrey in Guildford. He is a

pioneering popularizer of science and is dedicated to

conveying the wonder of science and to demystifying its

frontiers for the general public. He is an active member

of the

Public Awareness of Nuclear Science

European

committee. His current research is into the properties of

new types of atomic nuclei containing

neutron halos.

obtained his PhD in theoretical nuclear physics from

Surrey in 1989 and, after two years at University College

London, returned to Surrey as a Research Fellow before

being appointed lecturer in 1992. He has since taught

quantum physics, relativity theory, mathematics and

nuclear physics to Surrey undergraduates. He is married

with two young children and lives in Portsmouth in

Hampshire.