Professor Jim Al-Khalili CBE FRS is a theoretical physicist at the University of Surrey where he holds a Distinguished Chair in physics as well as a university chair in the public engagement in science. A self-described “public scientist”, Al-Khalili also works as a populariser and science communicator and has written 14 books on popular science and the history of science and presented numerous TV documentaries and radio programmes, mostly for the BBC. He hosts the long-running weekly BBC Radio 4 programme, The Life Scientific, and received an OBE in 2007 and a CBE in 2021 for services to science.
These are a few of Professor Jim Al-Khalili’s favourite things…
