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Bio/blurb

Chris Woodford (Christopher James Woodford—he/him/his) was born on 13 December 1966, had his first national magazine article published at the age of 13, and has been writing about science and technology ever since. He graduated from Cambridge University (Girton College) in 1988, where he specialized in physics and experimental psychology, dropped out of a Ph.D. in neuroscience, and then trained as an advertising copywriter at the School of Communication Arts with John Gillard. After spending much of the 1990s working as an environmental campaigner, he moved into educational publishing, and has since written, edited, or contributed to dozens of popular science books, including the worldwide best-selling Cool Stuff series for Dorling Kindersley. His last book, Atoms Under The Floorboards, won The American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award for Books, 2016 and was a Physics World Top 10 Book of 2015. His latest book, Breathless, was an Independent Book of the Month in March 2021. Chris also writes the popular science education website Explain that Stuff, which demystifies everyday science for over a million readers a month. Chris now lives in Dorset surrounded by sheep and the sea.

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Breathless

Atoms under the Floorboards

Images of the "Atoms" book jacket and artwork are copyright Bloomsbury Publishing, Plc. The cover design is by James Watson.

Audio

I can do radio and podcast interviews using Skype (id = chriswfd), Zoom (chris at chriswoodford dot com), or, for better audio quality, Cleanfeed, ipDTL (using a studio-grade Samson mic), or (by prior arrangement through local radio stations) via ISDN.

Here are some examples:

• The Pineapples Deadly Cousin and The Internet Explained!, Fun Kids Science Weekly Podcast, 23 January 2021.
• Chris Woodford: The difficulty of explaining science, Talk Radio Europe, 24 November 2017.
• The Modern Notion Podcast, 19 June 2015. A 10–15 minute chat about Atoms Under the Floorboards with Emma Morgenstern. The interview begins at 37:27.
• That Science Bit: Freezing Flowers, The Anton Savage Show, Today FM, 12th March 2015. 15–minute ISDN-line interview about Atoms Under the Floorboards on one of Ireland's top daytime radio shows.