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//-->BLACKHOLESWO R M H O L E S& TI M EMA C H I N E SJIMAL-KHALILIUniversity of SurreyInstitute of Physics PublishingBristol and PhiladelphiaBLACKHOLESWO R M H O L E S& TI M EMA C H I N E SAbout the AuthorJim Al-Khalili was born in 1962 and works as a theoreticalphysicist at the University of Surrey in Guildford. He is apioneering popularizer of science and is dedicated toconveying the wonder of science and to demystifying itsfrontiers for the general public. He is an active memberof thePublic Awareness of Nuclear ScienceEuropeancommittee. His current research is into the properties ofnew types of atomic nuclei containingneutron halos.Heobtained his PhD in theoretical nuclear physics fromSurrey in 1989 and, after two years at University CollegeLondon, returned to Surrey as a Research Fellow beforebeing appointed lecturer in 1992. He has since taughtquantum physics, relativity theory, mathematics andnuclear physics to Surrey undergraduates. He is marriedwith two young children and lives in Portsmouth inHampshire. [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]