Percy Seymour

Dr Percy Seymour, author of eight acclaimed books on astronomy and cosmology, was born in Kimberley, South Africa, in 1938. He received his Bachelors degree in 1964, Masters in 1965 and Doctor of Philosophy in 1967, all from Manchester University. His special area of study was magnetic fields in the Milky Way Galaxy.

From 1972 to 1977, he was Senior Planetarium Lecturer at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, home of Prime Meridian of the World. From 1977 to 2003, he was Principal Lecturer in Astronomy at the University of Plymouth. He now lives in Queen Camel in Somerset.

My most recent book is a kindle one, entitled RUTHERFORD, BOHR, MANCHESTER AND THE ATOMIC NUCLEUS. When I was an undergraduate physics student at the Schuster Laboratory of Manchester University, between 1962-64, I sometimes did very standard physics experiments at the very bench at which Rutherford and his colleagues carried out the experiments on which the Bohr-Rutherford atomic model was based. This recent book is to highlight the fact that in 2011 it will be exactly 100 years ago that Rutherford and his collaborators discovered the nucleus of the atom.