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Pete Moore
(1962-)

Pete Moore gained his PhD at the University of Reading. His research work aimed to discover the mechanisms that enable a baby to breathe as soon as it is born – in particular looking at an area of the brain stem and some receptors in the neck that monitor the amounts of carbon dioxide and oxygen in the blood.

After working as a post-doc for a few years he decided to step away from the bench and start to write about other people’s work. His overall aim is produce work that enables debate about the future of medicine, science and ethics and he has won six national awards for his work.

Over the last decade, Pete has written a dozen books and made more than 50 appearances on Radio and TV. In addition he has worked at private meetings held in the House of Lords and at Windsor Castle.

Pete is a visiting lecturer in ethics at Trinity College Bristol, and a visiting course tutor on the Science Communication MSc course at the University of the West of England.

He lives near Bristol, UK, and is married and has three young boys.

Pete’s books include:

The little book of big ideas: Science A rapid romp through 50 of the greatest scientists and the 10 biggest ideas.
The Forensics Handbook A quick introduction to forensic science.
Being Me Real life stories reveal what it means to be human.
Blood and Justice The story of the world’s first blood transfusion in 1666.
E=mc2 Brief biographies of 70 key thinkers.
The new killer germs Shows the danger of disease-causing micro-organisms.
Babel’s Shadow A thinking persons introduction to genetic technology. (Published in 2000 it now has some interestingly out of date ‘facts’, but the basic arguments still haven’t changed

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