Adam Rutherford

Adam Rutherford
Rutherford at QED, 2013
Born
Adam David Rutherford

January 1975 (age 49)[3][4]
Ipswich, Suffolk, England
CitizenshipBritish, New Zealand[5]
EducationIpswich School
Alma materUniversity College London (BSc, PhD)
Known forInside Science
Children3
AwardsDavid Attenborough Award and Lecture, 2021
Scientific career
Fields
ThesisThe role of CHX10 in the development of the mammalian retina (2002)
Doctoral advisorJane Sowden[2]
Websitewww.adamrutherford.com Edit this at Wikidata

Adam David Rutherford (born January 1975)[3][4][6] is a British geneticist and science populariser. He was an audio-visual content editor for the journal Nature for a decade, and is a frequent contributor to the newspaper The Guardian. He formerly hosted the BBC Radio 4 programmes Inside Science and (with Hannah Fry) The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry; has produced several science documentaries; and has published books related to genetics and the origin of life.[7]

He is an honorary senior research associate in the division of biosciences at University College London.[1][8][9]

Rutherford became President of Humanists UK in June 2022, succeeding Alice Roberts.[10]

  1. ^ a b Adam Rutherford publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference phd was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ a b Anon (2012). "Rutherford, Adam David". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U256643. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  4. ^ a b Anon (2018). "Adam David RUTHERFORD". companieshouse.gov.uk. London: Companies House. Archived from the original on 16 January 2018.
  5. ^ Rutherford, Adam. "Kia ora, chur bro!". Twitter. Retrieved 21 March 2022.
  6. ^ "One of the zany Men in White". East Anglian Daily Times. 4 October 2006. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014.
  7. ^ "BBC Inside Science – Adam Rutherford – BBC Radio 4". BBC.
  8. ^ Adam Rutherford publications from Europe PubMed Central
  9. ^ "Dr Adam Rutherford". UCL Division of Biosciences. 10 August 2020.
  10. ^ "Alice Roberts hands Humanists UK Presidency to Adam Rutherford". Humanists UK. Retrieved 8 June 2022.