Biography

Adam Hart-Davis was educated at the prestigious Eton College. At school he excelled in physics, chemistry and mathematics. He achieved a first class Masters degree in chemistry at Oxford University and then took a PhD in organometallic chemistry at York University. He spent five years publishing science books for the Oxford University Press. He also became involved in broadcasting, bringing his scientific expertise to programmes for Yorkshire Television and the BBC. He continues to write articles and present radio and television programmes about science.

Hart-Davis enjoys cycling and photography. He is married to psychologist Sue Blackmore.
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His father was publisher and man of letters, and one-time actor Rupert Hart-Davis (1907-1999).

His father chose Celia Johnson for a theatre tour, but she was too tall. His second choice was Peggy Ashcroft. At the end of the tour they married. Hart-Davis jokes that if she were four inches shorter Celia Johnson would have been his step-mother instead.

The Labour Party think they know how to do education. They've ruined our entire educational system. (Speaking in 2009)