Biography:Steve Mould

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Steve Mould
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Mould at the 2013 FameLab Festival
Personal information
Born (1978-10-05) 5 October 1978 (age 45)
Gateshead, United Kingdom
EducationUniversity of Oxford (MPhys)
Website{{{1}}}
YouTube information
Years active2006–present
GenreEdutainment
Subscribers2.45 million
(October 2023)
Total views410.7 million
(June 2023)
Associated actsBrady Haran, Numberphile, James Grime, Helen Arney, Matt Parker, Smarter Every Day, ElectroBOOM
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Steve Mould (born 5 October 1978) is a British educational YouTuber, author,[1] and science presenter who is most notable for making science-related educational videos on his YouTube channel.

Early life

Mould was born on 5 October 1978 in Gateshead, United Kingdom . He went to St Thomas More Catholic School, Blaydon, before going on to study physics at St Hugh's College, Oxford.[2][3]

Career

In 2014, Mould co-hosted ITV's I Never Knew That About Britain alongside Paul Martin and Suzannah Lipscomb. He has also appeared as a science expert on The Alan Titchmarsh Show, The One Show, and Blue Peter.

Mould explaining the self-siphoning chain fountain at the 2015 Cambridge Science Festival

Mould's YouTube video on rising self-siphoning beads, in which he demonstrated the phenomenon and proposed an explanation,[4] brought the problem to the attention of academics John Biggins and Mark Warner of Cambridge University,[5] who published their findings about what has now been called the "chain fountain" in Proceedings of the Royal Society A.[6][7]

Between 2008 and 2010, Mould performed three geeky sketch shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with Gemma Arrowsmith.[8] Since 2011, Steve has performed live science comedy as part of the comedic trio Festival of the Spoken Nerd, with mathematician Matt Parker and physicist singer Helen Arney. Festival of the Spoken Nerd has performed at theatres as well as science and arts festivals.[9][10]

In 2011 Mould and Parker together started MathsGear.co.uk, a website aimed at selling stuffs they prepare for their mathematics shows. Mould tells the motive of starting this website as the constant inquiry from people to buy the stuffs they used in their shows.[11][12]

Personal life

Mould lives in London with his wife Lianne, who is a linguist, and their children.[13][14]

References

  1. "Buy my books here". https://stevemould.com/books/. 
  2. "Science... with added laughs". 27 February 2014. http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/entertainment/theatre/features/11041702.Science_____with_added_laughs/. 
  3. (in en) St Hugh's College, Oxford - Chronicle 1997-1998 (71 ed.). pp. 24,33. https://issuu.com/sthughscollegeoxford/docs/chronicle_1997-1998. Retrieved 27 July 2021. 
  4. "Understanding the chain fountain: A problem-solving partnership (w/ Video)". Phys.org. Jan 15, 2014. http://phys.org/news/2014-01-chain-fountain-problem-solving-partnership-video.html. 
  5. Wade, Lizzie (14 January 2014). "Video: How the 'Chain Fountain' Defies Gravity". https://www.science.org/content/article/video-how-chain-fountain-defies-gravity. 
  6. Biggins, J. S.; Warner, M. (15 January 2014). "Understanding the chain fountain". Proceedings of the Royal Society A 470 (2163): 20130689. doi:10.1098/rspa.2013.0689. Bibcode2014RSPSA.47030689B. 
  7. Gibney, Elizabeth (15 January 2014). "Physicists explain 'gravity-defying' chain trick". Nature. doi:10.1038/nature.2014.14523. http://www.nature.com/news/physicists-explain-gravity-defying-chain-trick-1.14523. 
  8. "Mould & Arrowsmith In 3D". http://www.chortle.co.uk/shows/edinburgh_fringe_2010/m/18662/mould_%26_arrowsmith_in_3d/review?review=2108. 
  9. "Indulge In A Spot Of Full Frontal Nerdity". 2 December 2014. http://londonist.com/2014/12/indulge-in-a-spot-of-full-frontal-nerdity.php. 
  10. Lee, Veronica (17 April 2014). "Festival of the Spoken Nerd, Udderbelly Popular science show with a few whizz-bangs". http://www.theartsdesk.com/comedy/festival-spoken-nerd-udderbelly. 
  11. "Steve Mould". https://uk.linkedin.com/in/steve-mould-6b893ba. 
  12. "About us". https://mathsgear.co.uk/pages/about-us. 
  13. Steve Mould (2017-12-07), I predicted the exact time of my daughter's birth using science and data - from Just For Graphs, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7q0Y2W0Rn4, retrieved 2018-02-16 
  14. Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Gravitational waves explained a little deeper. YouTube.

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