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Brian Cox

Brian Cox

Professor Brian Cox CBE FRS

Fellow


Elected: 2016

Biography

Brian Cox is Professor of Particle Physics at the University of Manchester and The Royal Society Professor for Public Engagement in Science. He has worked primarily in the study of diffractive scattering at the H1 experiment at DESY in Hamburg, the D0 experiment at Fermilab, Chicago, and is currently a member of the ATLAS Collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider, CERN.  He was the co-spokesperson for the FP420 R&D project at CERN between 2004 and 2009.

He is active in the public and political promotion of science, and is known to the public for his documentary work on BBC television. He was a Royal Society University Research Fellow from 2005 – 2013, is a Fellow of The Institute of Physics, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music and holds a British Association Honorary Fellowship. He received an OBE for services to science in 2010, the President’s Medal from the Institute of Physics in 2012 and the Royal Society Michael Faraday Prize in 2012.

Professional positions

, The Royal Society
Professor of Particle Physics, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester
Professor of Particle Physics, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester

Awards

  • Michael Faraday Prize and Lecture

    On 'Making Britain the best place in the world to do science'.

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