Tim Radford, the Guardian’s former science editor, was the man who by his professionalism and enthusiasm made the paper take the subject seriously, perhaps for the first time.
Tim, who has died aged 84, was not the Guardian’s first specialist science correspondent and indeed he was appointed after working in several unconnected previous editorial roles and despite having no academic scientific training, but he made the role his own. He was awarded science writer of the year four times by the Association of British Science Writers, which in 2004 gave him its first life achievement award.
