Jim Al-Khalili speaking at the IET Annual Dinner 2014

Duration: 12 mins
Publication date: 21 Feb 2014

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The IET Annual Dinner is the must attend networking event in the engineering and technology calendar. Join 1,200 guests as IET members, guests and industry enjoy an evening of networking in the luxurious Great Room at the Grosvenor Hotel on Thursday 20 February 2014.Watch Jim Al-Khalili OBE talk about whats great about engineering

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Jim Al-Khalili

University of Surrey, professor of physics

Jim Al-Khalili is a professor of physics, author and broadcaster based at the University of Surrey where he currently teaches and also holds a chair in public engagement in science. He received his PhD in nuclear physics in 1989 and remains active in research in theoretical physics. He is active as a science communicator and has written a number of popular science and history of science books, between them translated into over twenty languages. His latest is Paradox: The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics. Jim is a regular presenter of TV science documentaries, including the Bafta nominated Chemistry: A Volatile History and, most recently, Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity and Order and Disorder, both for BBC4. He also presents the weekly BBC Radio 4 programme, The Life Scientific. He provides expert advice for bodies such as the Royal Society, the British Council and the Department for Education. He is also active in public life and is a strong advocate for rationalism and secularism and has recently taken over as president of the British Humanist Association. He is a recipient of the Royal Society Michael Faraday medal and the Institute of Physics Kelvin Medal. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2008.

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