Wade Allison

Wade Allison is a Fellow of Keble College and a Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford where he has studied and taught for over 40 years. His earlier research work was in high energy physics, in particular the radiation field of relativistic particles, but his interests and expertise have spread much wider. Now he is concerned with medical physics and the choices facing mankind. First he published Fundamental Physics for Probing and Imaging, an advanced textbook for his course at Oxford on physics in medicine and the wider environment. Then he published Radiation and Reason, a carefully argued popular science book aimed at the pervasive (and unjustified) fear of radiation (and all things nuclear). He recently "retired" and lectures widely, for schools, academics and the wider public, in Oxford, around the UK and abroad. Then came Fukushima - no surprises for Wade, but panic for those who had not yet read Radiation and Reason! His third book, Nuclear is for Life, gives the evidence and tells the story in a wider historical and philosophical context. The science is easy, but the reaction of human society has been science-blind. Now Wade is working on his fourth book. It is about real science, he says. It is the one he wanted to write in the first place!