Clifford Johnson on making sense of black holes and movie plots
The Life Scientific
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What Is Your Nickname?
As a child, you had a real passion for drawing as well as maths and science. By the time you got to secondary school, you decided to become a professor of some kind. When you were just eight years old, your father left his job on the island to come back to the UK. What were those years like for you without your father? It was quite a change. I still actually don't know what the story is. Perhaps my siblings do, but there was a big falling out. And so we had to really fend for ourselves. My brother, who's the oldest amongst us, actually left school early and started working so that he could help support us. Sometimes I would
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