Richard

Height

5ft 8in

Eye colour

Brown

What’s your favourite word

Floccinaucinihilipilification

If you could be anyone in the world today, who would it be?

Adam from “Mythbusters”

How many members of Take That can you name?

Worryingly, all of them

If you could meet any scientist in history, who would it be?

Lord Kelvin – what a beard

What’s your favourite object in the Science Museum?

The bowl from Hiroshima in the Making the Modern World Gallery.

What’s the best thing about your job?

Working with Phil the Frog – I’m in awe of his endless masochistic devotion to science.

Give us a science fact that will make us say “hmm”

Astronauts can’t belch – there’s no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.