Marty Jopson

Marty Jopson is a British science TV presenter and author. He is best known as the science reporter on the BBC1 flagship program, The One Show.

Marty Jopson is originally from the South of London. He attended Cambridge University to study Natural Sciences (Botany) and then did a PhD in plant cell biology at the John Innes Institute in Norwich.

Jopson has been working in television for eighteen years, since his first job building props and performing stage science around the UK for twenty years.

He authored three non-fiction books: The Science of Everyday Life (2015), The Science of Food (2017), and The Science of Being Human (2019).

Marty Jopson lives in Yorkshire.

Photo credit: martyjopson.co.uk

Quotes

Sofiahas quoted2 years ago
The sweetest chemical so far discovered goes by the name of lugduname and ranks about 250,000 times sweeter than sucrose
Sofiahas quoted2 years ago
What these sugar-free sugar substitutes have in common is that they all bear some structural resemblance to sucrose itself. It therefore comes as no surprise that our taste buds detect them as sweet, as they all possess the key to the sweetness lock.
Joshea Carlhas quotedlast year
Saccharina latissima, or sugar kelp as it is commonly known.
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