Authors of the Internet Compendium

Eric Albone is co-founder and Director of Clifton Scientific Trust. He taught science at Clifton College, Bristol, for 17 years, where he was responsible for the first school-based Scientist in Residence scheme. Before that he followed a research career in the USA and the UK where his special interest was in mammalian chemical communication; his DPhil is in chemistry. He holds honorary research affiliations in the School of Chemistry and the Institute of Learning and Research Technology at Bristol University. He is an Association for Science Education representative on the committee of the Royal Society - ESSO Science - Education Partnership Scheme and a member of Council/Chemistry Record of the British Association. He received the Royal Society of Chemistry Award for Chemical Education in 1993 and in 1997 a Royal Society and British Association Millennium Award.

Contact: 49 Northumberland Road, Bristol, BS6 7BA.
Tel: 0117 924 7664
Email: Eric.Albone@clifton-scientific.org

Nigel Collins is Head of Life Science at King Charles I School, a comprehensive high school in Kidderminster where he has taught for 15 years. He is an Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Education, University of Birmingham and is support by the Wellcome Trust for two days a week to explore interactions between research scientists/technologies and school science departments. He worked on growth, physiology and population dynamics of tundra plants for 10 years, mostly based at Birmingham University (PhD), but sometimes in the Antarctic or Alaska. A Fellow of the Institute of Biology, he is also an ASE representative on the committee of the Scientific Research in Schools Scheme and a founder editor of Catalyst, GCSE Science Review, a science magazine for 14-16 year olds.

Contact: King Charles I School, Kidderminster, DY10 1XA.
Tel: 01562 60198 / home 01562 753964.

Trevor Hill is Head of Science at Taunton School, where he has taught for 12 years. He read Physics at the University of Manchester and whilst there was involved with research into low energy nuclear structure physics, up until 1978. He continued research into aspects of nuclear fuel performance on the Experimental Advanced Gas Cooled Reactor at Sellafield, Cumbria. He was appointed as a Reactor Physicist on the Hinckley Point AGT, Somerset in 1980. A variety of papers and articles arose from his work in industrial research. At Taunton he has built up a unique facility for radio astronomy, which was the subject of an entire Sky at Night programme. He is a member of the Institute of Physics and of the Association for Science Education.

Contact: Taunton Radio Observatory, Staplegrove Road, Taunton, Somerset, TA2 6AD
Tel: 01823 349200.

Tracey Reader is Schools' Liaison Officer with the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. She read Physical Geography at the Swansea University after which she worked as a journalist, before joining the Agricultural and Food Research Council's Public Relations team in 1991.