Editing Colin Pillinger (section)

==Education and early life==
Pillinger was born on 9 May 1943 in [[Kingswood, South Gloucestershire]], just outside [[Bristol]].<ref name=CP-website-biography>{{cite web|url=http://colinpillinger.com/barnstormpr.co.uk/biography.htm |title=Biography |publisher=Pillinger's personal website |access-date=30 October 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120218205618/http://colinpillinger.com/barnstormpr.co.uk/biography.htm |archive-date=18 February 2012 |df=dmy }}</ref> His father, Alfred, a manual worker for the Gas Board, and his mother, Florence (née Honour), also had a daughter Doreen (the local historian D.P. Lindegaard), 6 years Colin's senior, born 1937.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Lindegaard|first=Kevin|date=2021-02-28|title=Killed in a coalpit|url=https://bafhs.org.uk/product/killed-in-a-coalpit/|url-status=live|website=Bristol and Avon Family History Society|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200921071103/https://bafhs.org.uk/product/killed-in-a-coalpit/ |archive-date=21 September 2020 }}</ref><ref name="DIDiscs CP">{{cite episode |title=Desert Island Discs with Colin Pillinger |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ncwp6 |series=Desert Island Discs | series-link=Desert Island Discs |network=[[BBC]] |station=[[BBC Radio 4|Radio 4]] |airdate=2009-10-25}}</ref><ref name=CP-website-biography/> He attended [[Kingswood Grammar School]], and later graduated with a [[Bachelor of Science|BSc]] and a PhD in chemistry from [[Swansea University|University College of Swansea]] (now Swansea University).<ref name=CP-website-biography/> He said of himself, "I was a disaster as a science student".<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2002/dec/29/spaceexploration.observermagazine | location=London | work=The Guardian | first=Robin | last=McKie | title=Colin Pillinger | date=29 December 2002}}</ref>