Adam Hart-Davis - 2007
Adam Hart-Davis is a freelance photographer, writer and awardwinning presenter for television's Tomorrow's World, What the Romans, Victorians, Tudors & Stuarts, Greeks, Egyptians (and others) Did For Us, Science Shack, Local Heroes, Stardate, How London was Built and The Cosmos - A Beginner's Guide. For Radio 4 he has made several series of Inventors Imperfect and Inspiration, Engineering Solutions and Eureka Years. He has won various awards for both television and radio. Before presenting, Adam spent five years in publishing and 17 years at Yorkshire Television, firstly as researcher and then producer of such series as Scientific Eye and Arthur C Clarke's World of Strange Powers.
An accomplished author, he has written 25 books including World's Weirdest 'True' Ghost Stories, Thunder, Flush & Thomas Crapper and Amazing Maths Puzzles. His latest books are Why Does a Ball Bounce?, Taking the Piss, Just Another Day and The Cosmos - a Beginner's Guide. He has also written numerous newspaper and magazine articles and has a regular column in the Radio Times. His contribution to the Oxford Companion to the Body was titled 'Burp, Defecate and Farting!'
Adam is a Companion of the Institution of Lighting Engineers, an honorary member of the British Toilet Association, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and of the Society of Dyers and Colourists and patron of a dozen charitable organisations. He has collected honorary doctorates, a medal from the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Medal from the Institute of Incorporated Engineers, and the 1999 Gerald Frewer memorial trophy of the Council of Engineering Designers.
He has no car but four bicycles which he rides slowly but with enthusiasm!
In recognition of his services to the public understanding of science, technology and engineering he is awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of the University.
July 2007
