Timothy Robin Radford (9 October 1940 – 10 February 2025) was a British–New Zealand journalist who was the science editor for The Guardian from 1980 to 2005.

Timothy Robin Radford was born in Rawene, New Zealand, on 9 October 1940, and grew up in Devonport, near Auckland.

He moved to the United Kingdom in 1961, working at first as a Whitehall information officer.

[3] He also served on the UK committee for the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction.

[1] Radford won four Association of British Science Writers awards:[4]