David Bradley (born 1966 in England) is a British
journalist
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specializing in science and technology. After graduating in 1988 with a degree in chemistry from
Newcastle University
Newcastle University (legally the University of Newcastle upon Tyne) is a UK public university, public research university based in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England. It has overseas campuses in Singapore and Malaysia. The university is ...
,
he began his career in technical editing at the
Royal Society of Chemistry
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in 1989 and built up a freelance writing business in his spare time before going full-time freelance in the mid-1990s. He has contributed to a wide range of popular science publications, including ''
Popular Science
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'', ''
American Scientist
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'', ''
New Scientist
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'' and ''
Science
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Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for ...
''. As well as numerous newspapers (''
The Guardian
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'', ''
The Daily Telegraph
''The Daily Telegraph'', known online and elsewhere as ''The Telegraph'', is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.
It was fo ...
'') and trade magazines (''
Chemistry in Britain
''Chemistry World'' is a monthly chemistry news magazine published by the Royal Society of Chemistry. The magazine addresses current events in world of chemistry including research, international business news and government policy as it affect ...
'', ''
'', ''
Nature
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''), and websites (ChemWeb.com, BioMedNet.com, SpectroscopyNOW.com).
He launched the Elemental Discoveries chemistry webzine in 1996 and in 1999 relaunched it under the Sciencebase banner. Sciencebase was featured in ACS magazine C&EN. This website has also served as a model for the Reactive Reports webzine (which featured in C&EN and the new formats of Chemspy and the tech tips site Sciencetext.
Bradley was a Daily Telegraph-British Association Young Science Writer of the Year,
was a runner up in the inaugural awards for science communication made by the UK's Chemical Industry Association, a merit winner in the British Medical Journalism awards, and is the author of ''Deceived Wisdom'' (Elliott & Thompson, 2012; ).
References
Publisher's page for Deceived Wisdom
External links
ScienceBase
British male journalists
Living people
1966 births
Alumni of Newcastle University
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