Richard
Overview
Height
5ft 8in
Eye colour
Brown
What’s your favourite word
Floccinaucinihilipilification
If you could be anyone in the world today, who would it be?
Adam from “Mythbusters”
How many members of Take That can you name?
Worryingly, all of them
If you could meet any scientist in history, who would it be?
Lord Kelvin – what a beard
What’s your favourite object in the Science Museum?
The bowl from Hiroshima in the Making the Modern World Gallery.
What’s the best thing about your job?
Working with Phil the Frog – I’m in awe of his endless masochistic devotion to science.
Give us a science fact that will make us say “hmm”
Astronauts can’t belch – there’s no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.