Secret Weapons

Brian J. Ford is a prolific research scientist who launched major science programs for the BBC. His books pioneer new approaches in bringing science to the public. Over 100 editions of his books have been published around the world, and he appears in TV programs produced in studios ranging from Hollywood to Delhi, and from Germany to Japan. He was a NESTA Fellow 2004-2007, was presented with the inaugural Köhler medal in America for his work in microscopy, and has been nominated for the prestigious Faraday Medal of the Royal Society in London. He pioneered regular "science reports" on television news, went on to introduce regular science to BBC radio with Start the Week and Newsbeat. He then launched his own programs Science Now and Where Are You Taking Us? for the BBC, appeared as presenter Food for Thought on Channel Four and then to host Computer Challenge on BBC Wales, the first science-based television game-show. His work is widely reported and discussed in journals including Scientific American, Nature, New Scientist, The Microscope, and the British Medical Journal; his discoveries feature in many text-books. Brian J. Ford contributes to The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and The Times. The author lives in Eastrea, Cambridgeshire, UK.