Editing Simon Singh (section)

==Early life and education==
Singh was born in a Sikh family<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/archive/a-life-in-architecture-simon-singh|title=a life in architecture: simon singh|date=8 June 2000|work=[[Architects' Journal]]|access-date=8 November 2022}}</ref> to parents who emigrated from [[Punjab, India]] to Britain in 1950. He is the youngest of three brothers, his eldest brother being [[Tom Singh]], the founder of the UK [[New Look (store)|New Look]] chain of stores. Singh grew up in [[Wellington, Somerset]], attending [[Wellington School, Somerset|Wellington School]], and went on to [[Imperial College London]], where he studied [[physics]]. He was active in the student union, becoming President of the [[Royal College of Science]] Union.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imperial.ac.uk/college.asp?P=2579|title=The Simon Singh Interview|date=October 1999|publisher=Imperial College London|access-date=29 November 2009}}</ref> Later he completed a [[PhD]] in [[particle physics]] at the [[University of Cambridge]] as a postgraduate student of [[Emmanuel College, Cambridge]] while working at [[CERN]], Geneva.<ref name="singhphd">{{cite thesis |degree=PhD |first=Simon Lehna|last=Singh |title=Heavy flavour physics at the CERN PP̄ collider |publisher=University of Cambridge |date=1991 |url=http://ulmss-newton.lib.cam.ac.uk/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=13830|id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.385498}}|website=lib.cam.ac.uk|oclc=59965980}}</ref>