1. Adam John Hart-Davis was born on 4 July 1943 and is an English scientist, author, photographer, historian and broadcaster.
12 Facts About Adam Hart-Davis
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Adam Hart-Davis presented the BBC television series Local Heroes and What the Romans Did for Us, the latter spawning several spin-off series involving the Victorians, the Tudors, the Stuarts and the Ancients.
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Adam Hart-Davis was a co-presenter of Tomorrow's World, and presented Science Shack.
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Adam Hart-Davis was born and brought up in Henley-on-Thames, the youngest child of the publisher Sir Rupert Adam Hart-Davis and his second wife, Catherine Comfort Borden-Turner.
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Adam Hart-Davis was educated at St Andrew's Preparatory School, near Pangbourne, and then at Eton College, before reading chemistry at Merton College, Oxford.
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Adam Hart-Davis then took a PhD degree in organometallic chemistry at the University of York and spent three years as a post-doctoral scholar at the University of Alberta in Canada.
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Adam Hart-Davis's siblings are the journalist Duff Hart-Davis and Bridget, the dowager Lady Silsoe.
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Adam Hart-Davis is an uncle of the journalist Alice Hart-Davis.
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Adam Hart-Davis devised and produced the school science show Scientific Eye.
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Adam Hart-Davis is the Patron of the FatallyFlawed campaign against the use of plug-in socket covers.
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Adam Hart-Davis is Patron of Erasmus Darwin House in Lichfield, the eighteenth-century home of Charles Darwin's grandfather, now a museum open to the public.
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Adam Hart-Davis has written many books, including a history of the toilet, entitled Thunder, Flush and Thomas Crapper, and Taking The Piss.