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Adrian Dingle

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Chemistry educator Adrian Dingle is the creator of the award-winning website, www.adriandingleschemistrypages.com. The site has been recommended by many educational bodies including the BBC and the National Science Teachers Association.

With extensive experience of teaching in both the UK and USA, Dingle now lives and teaches in Atlanta, GA, USA.

Dingle's first book was "The Periodic Table: Elements With Style".

Written in association with consultant Dr. Mark Winter (acclaimed creator of www.webelements.com) and brilliant illustrator, artist and designer Simon Basher,...

Hugh Lofting

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Hugh Lofting was a British author, trained as a civil engineer, who created the character of Doctor Dolittle - one of the classics of children's literature. Lofting was born in Maidenhead, England, to English and Irish parents. His early education was at Mount St Mary's College in Sheffield, after which he went to the United States, completing a degree in civil engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He traveled widely as a civil engineer before enlisting in the Irish Guards to serve in World War I. Not wishing to write to his children of the brutality of the war, he wrote imaginative...