Simon Singh
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Singh in 2013 at the Merseyside Skeptics Society
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19 September 1964 Wellington, Somerset, England |
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| Nationality | English | ||
| Institutions |
CERN BBC |
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| Alma mater |
Emmanuel College, Cambridge Imperial College London |
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| Thesis | Heavy flavour physics at the CERN PP̄ collider (1991) | ||
| Known for | Journalism, Libel campaign BCA v. Singh, Books and Broadcasting | ||
| Notable awards |
Science Writing Award (2006) Kelvin Prize (2008) HealthWatch Award (2010) Leelavati Award (2014) Order of the British Empire |
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| Spouse | Anita Anand (m. 2007) | ||
| Children | 2 | ||
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Website www |
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Tom Singh (brother)
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Simon Lehna Singh, MBE (born 19 September 1964) is a British popular science author whose works largely contain a strong mathematical element. His written works include Fermat's Last Theorem (in the United States titled Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem),The Code Book (about cryptography and its history), Big Bang (about the Big Bang theory and the origins of the universe), Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial (about complementary and alternative medicine, co-written by Edzard Ernst) and The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets (about mathematical ideas and theorems hidden in episodes of The Simpsons and Futurama). In 2012 Singh founded the Good Thinking Society.
Singh has also produced documentaries and works for television to accompany his books, is a trustee of NESTA, the National Museum of Science and Industry and co-founded the Undergraduate Ambassadors Scheme.
Singh's parents emigrated from Punjab, India to Britain in 1950. He is the youngest of three brothers, his eldest brother being Tom Singh, the founder of the UK New Look chain of stores. Singh grew up in Wellington, Somerset, attending Wellington School, and went on to Imperial College London, where he studied physics. He was active in the student union, becoming President of the Royal College of Science Union. Later he completed a PhD degree in particle physics at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and at CERN, Geneva.
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