Chris Woodford (author)
Christopher J Woodford (born 13 December 1966) is a British science writer. He has written several dozen educational science books for adults and children, which have won multiple awards, been published in numerous languages, and collectively sold around 4 million copies. Writing Woodford's 2015 book Atoms Under the Floorboards, which explains the science underpinning apparently mundane, everyday phenomena, won the 2016 American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award and was one of Physics World'''s Top 10 Books of the Year in 2015. It was published in English, worldwide, by Bloomsbury and in foreign-language editions in Russia, China, Taiwan, Poland, South Korea, Italy, Germany, and Vietnam. Woodford based the book around intriguing questions he received by email from readers of his popular science website (Explain that Stuff), such as how many pedalling hamsters you would need to generate enough energy to boil water for a cup of coffee. Woodford set up the website in 2006; its articles have been downloaded over 100 million times and cited in hundreds of books and scientific papers. Woodford began his career writing and editing children's science books, and wrote three best-selling titles in the Cool Stufftechnology series for Dorling Kindersley. The third volume, Cool Stuff