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
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 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 hosts 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.

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