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Brian Cox (physicist)
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Brian Cox
Born
3 March 1968 (1968-03-03) (age 43)
Chadderton, Lancashire, England
Residence
Manchester
Nationality
British
Fields
Particle physics
Institutions
University of Manchester
CERN
Alma mater
University of Manchester
Known for
ATLAS, D:Ream, Wonders of the Solar System, Wonders of the Universe
Influences
Richard Feynman, Carl Sagan
Spouse
Gia Milinovich
Brian Edward Cox, OBE (born 3 March 1968), is a British particle physicist, a Royal Society University Research Fellow and a professor at the University of Manchester. He is a member of the High Energy Physics group at the University of Manchester, and works on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland. He is working on the R&D project of the FP420 experiment in an international collaboration to upgrade the ATLAS and the CMS experiment by installing additional, smaller detectors at a distance of 420 metres from the interaction points of the main experiments.He is best known to the public as the presenter of a number of science programmes for the BBC. He also had some fame in the 1990s as the keyboard player for the pop band D:Ream.
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