Biography
Brian Edward Cox, OBE, 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.
Awards & recognition
- Fellow of the Royal Society · 2016
- honorary doctorate · 2012
- Michael Faraday Prize · 2012
- President's Medal · 2012
- Kelvin Prize · 2010
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- Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- Officer of the Order of the British Empire
- Royal Society University Research Fellowship
Filmography27 titles
Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time
The Planets
Solar System
Solar System
Human Universe
Wonders of the Solar System
Wonders of the Universe
QI
Wonders of Life
Would I Lie to You?
W1A
Mandy
Forces of Nature with Brian Cox
Brian Cox: Seven Days on Mars
Cunk on Life
Monty Python: The Meaning of Live
Horizon
Monty Python Live (Mostly)
Sunshine
StarTalk
Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Absolutely Anything
The Day We Walked on the Moon
The Jonathan Ross Show
The Invocation
The Entire Universe