| Simon Singh  AKA Simon Lehna Singh
Born: 19-Sep-1964
Birthplace: Wellington, Somerset, England
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: Asian/Indian
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Author Nationality: England
Executive summary: Fermat's Last Theorem Brother: Tom Singh (entrepreneur)
Wife: Anita Anand
High School: Wellington School, Wellington, Somerset, England
University: BS Physics, Imperial College London
University: PhD Particle Physics, Emmanuel College, Cambridge University
CERN Researcher (three years, 1980s)
National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts Trustee
National Museum of Science and Industry Trustee
Science Media Centre Board of Directors
Libel sued by British Chiropractic Association 2008; complaint dropped 2010
Member of the British Empire 2003
Punjabi Ancestry
TELEVISION
BBC Producer and Director, Science Unit (1990-96)
Official Website:
http://www.simonsingh.net/
Author of books:
Fermat's Last Theorem: The Story of a Riddle That Confounded the World's Greatest Minds for 358 Years (1997, mathematics)
The Code Book: The Secret History of Codes and Code Breaking (2000, cryptography)
Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe (2005, physics)
Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine (2008, medicine, with Edzard Ernst)
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