In addition, he was the editor of Craig Venter's A Life Decoded and Life at the Speed of Light. He has written/co-authored seven popular science books, all of which have been translated into foreign editions, including After Dolly, The Science of Harry Potter, The Physics of Christmas, The Private Lives of Albert Einstein, Frontiers of Complexity, and SuperCooperators: Altruism, Evolution, and Why We Need Each Other to Succeed. Highfied has an MA and DPhil in chemistry from the University of Oxford and spent time working as a scientist at Unilever and Institut Laue Langevin, Grenoble, France, where he became the first person to bounce a neutron off a soap bubble.
He is at the leading edge of the integration of web and print and has starred in a series of web videos about everyday science. Roger Highfield The Physics of Christmas: From the Aerodynamics of Reindeer to the Thermodynamics of Turkey Paperback Novemby Roger Highfield (Author) 25 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 1.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. He is also a regular on radio and TV, and has organised mass participation experiments with the BBC. Prior to joining the National Museum of Science and Industry, he was a high-profile journalist, most recently as editor of New Scientist magazine, and before that as the award-winning science editor of The Daily Telegraph, where he worked for more than 20 years. What are the thermodynamics involved in cooking a turkey? What are the likely celestial candidates for the Star of Bethlehem? Is the concept of a virgin birth scientifically feasible? What happens to us physically when we overindulge in alcohol? How does snow form? Why are we always depressed after Christmas? How does Santa manage to deliver all those presents in one night? (He has, in fact, little over two ten- thousands of a second to get between each of the 842 million households he must visit.) The Physics of Christmas is that rare science book that manages to be as delightful as it is informative.ROGER HIGHFIELD is the director of external affairs for the Science Museum Group. Why might Rudolph's nose have been red? Why do we actually give Christmas gifts? Why has smell become an important component in the Christmas shopping experience? Roger Highfield, science editor of London's Daily Telegraph and co-author of the highly acclaimed The Arrow of Time, has taken a long-overdue look at our most cherished holiday from the rigorous (but highly entertaining) viewpoint of a scientist.
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