Richard Bingham
Dr Richard Bingham was born in Norfolk, England, the youngest of three sons of a pharmacist and a teacher. He went to Downing College, Cambridge, and read physics, before earning his PhD in radio astronomy at the Cavendish Laboratory. He went on to work at the Royal Greenwich Observatory at Herstmonceux, where he became head of the Optics Group, and where he met his astronomer wife, Liz. They had two daughters, Amanda and Rachel. He helped to set up a new astronomy research group at the...See more
Dr Richard Bingham was born in Norfolk, England, the youngest of three sons of a pharmacist and a teacher. He went to Downing College, Cambridge, and read physics, before earning his PhD in radio astronomy at the Cavendish Laboratory. He went on to work at the Royal Greenwich Observatory at Herstmonceux, where he became head of the Optics Group, and where he met his astronomer wife, Liz. They had two daughters, Amanda and Rachel. He helped to set up a new astronomy research group at the University of Durham, and co-founded the Optical Science Laboratory at University College London. He later joined the University of Oxford as an optical engineer. Richard Bingham died in 2005, age 65. Aluminium Weekend is his first novel. See less
