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Sacred Heart College, Auckland.
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Tim Radford
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At 16, he joined The New Zealand Herald as a reporter. He moved to the United Kingdom in 1961, working at first as a Whitehall information officer Radford worked for The Guardian newspaper for 32 years.
Over the course of his career, he was letters editor, arts editor, literary editor, and science editor — holding the latter post from 1980 until 2005.
He also served on the United Kingdom committee for the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction.
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Radford has won four Association of British Science Writers awards: Lifetime achievement award for services to science journalism, 2004 Best feature on science subject in a national or regional newspaper, 2004, for Touching the Void, published in The Guardian on 22 July 2004 Best communication of science in a non-science context, 2001, for Tell us, Solly, published in the London Review of Books on 20 September 2001 Other awards in 1992 and 1997.
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Radford has won four Association of British Science Writers awards: Lifetime achievement award for services to science journalism, 2004 Best feature on science subject in a national or regional newspaper, 2004, for Touching the Void, published in The Guardian on 22 July 2004 Best communication of science in a non-science context, 2001, for Tell us, Solly, published in the London Review of Books on 20 September 2001 Other awards in 1992 and 1997Radford has won four Association of British Science Writers awards: Lifetime achievement award for services to science journalism, 2004 Best feature on science subject in a national or regional newspaper, 2004, for Touching the Void, published in The Guardian on 22 July 2004 Best communication of science in a non-science context, 2001, for Tell us, Solly, published in the London Review of Books on 20 September 2001 Other awards in 1992 and 1997