Uncle Albert and the Quantum Quest

Russell Stannard is a prolific author of award-winning books for children and for adults. For his work in making science accessible to children and to the public in general, he was awarded an OBE by The Queen, and has received the Bragg Medal of the Institute of Physics. He was involved in setting up the UK's Open University (the UK's largest university with over 250,000 students) where he headed the Department of Physics and Astronomy for 21 years. His research field was high energy physics, which he conducted at the CERN laboratory in Geneva and in major US laboratories. He has sixteen grandchildren and one great grandchild - so far.

"'The marvellous Uncle Albert books have made quantum physics and relativity fun for countless children.' Sunday Times; 'Enough to make a parent weep with gratitude.' Guardian"