Jonathan Allday

JONATHAN ALLDAY, PhD, taught physics at a range of schools in the UK. After attending the Liverpool Blue Coat School, he took his first degree in Natural Sciences at Cambridge, then gained a PhD in particle physics in 1989 at Liverpool University.

Shortly after this, he started work on Quarks Leptons and the Big Bang, now published by Taylor & Francis and available in its third edition, which was intended as a rigorous but accessible introduction to these topics. Since then, he has also written Apollo in Perspective, Quantum Reality (now in its second edition), and Space-time, co-authored a successful textbook and contributed to an encyclopaedia for young scientists. He has also written on aspects of the history and philosophy of science. His most recent book is Introduction to Entropy: The Way of the World, co-authored with Simon Hands.

Jonathan has also contributed to the updated edition of the Looking-Glass Universe co-authored by F. David Peat and John Briggs.