Sue Nelson
Susan Nelson (born 5 June 1961)[1] is a British science writer and broadcaster. She is a former BBC science correspondent.
Early life and education
[edit | edit source]Nelson studied physics at University College Cardiff.[2][3] She won a Knight-Wallace Fellowship at the University of Michigan in 2004.[4]
Career
[edit | edit source]Nelson was presenter of Formula Five on BBC Radio 5 from 1990 to 1994. In 1997 she presented Right Stuff, Wrong Sex : Female Astronauts.[5] From 1997 to 2005 she was a science and technology correspondent for BBC News 24 and the science correspondent for the BBC Television News.[6][7] She was a presenter of The Material World on BBC Radio 4.[8] Nelson has also presented a number of science series on Radio 4, including Britain's Modern Brunels and Citizen Scientist in 2006. She produced Women with the Right Stuff on the BBC World Service.[9] She began to present the Planet Earth podcasts in 2008.[2] In 2010 she was made editor of The Biologist.[10]
Nelson makes films for the European Space Agency.[11] She hosts the podcast Space Boffins through her media company Boffin Media, which has welcomed guests such as Buzz Aldrin, Eileen Collins, Helen Sharman and Tim Peake.[12][13] She presented the 2017 BBC World Service documentary Before I Go.[14][15] In 2018 she was taken to SAI International School with the British Council.[16]
Books
[edit | edit source]In 2004, she wrote How to Clone the Perfect Blonde.[17] In 2011 she published How to Live Forever: Lives Less Ordinary.[18] The rights to Nelson's third book,Wally Funk's Race for Space: On the Road with a Forgotten Pioneer of Aviation, were acquired by The Westbourne Press in November 2017.[19][12] Wally Funk was one of the Mercury 13. It will be released in October 2018.[20]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]At age 60 Nelson was diagnosed with autism.[21]
Awards
[edit | edit source]- Association of British Science Writer’s Award[22]
- BT Technology Journalist Award[22] for Robo Sapiens
- Glaxo Wellcome Science Writers' Award
- New York Festival International Radio Program Award 2018[23]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Companies House
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External links
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