Brian Cox
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1928
- Died
- 2008
- Works
- 17
Top works
- Twentieth century love poems
- My Eightieth Year to Heaven
- Emeritus
- Poetry now
- Poetry now
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Film & TV
Acting · Oldham, Lancashire, England, UK
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…
Known for
- 100 Questions with Tom Simons — Self2026
- A Symphonic Odyssey with Professor Brian Cox — Self - Presenter2024
- Curious People: An Incomplete History of Nine Lessons & Compendium2024
- Cunk on Life — Self2024
- Solar System — Self - Presenter2024
- Brian Cox: Seven Days on Mars2022
- Life's Big Questions — Self2022
- Brian Cox's Adventures in Space and Time — Self - Presenter2021
- Universe — Self - Presenter2021
- Paul O'Grady's Saturday Night Line Up — Self - Guest2021
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 3,193
- Total plays
- 10,856
Tags
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1- Brian Denis Cox, CBE (born 1 June 1946) is a Scottish actor. He is known for his work with the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he gained recognition for his portrayal of King Lear. He has also appeared in many Hollywood productions playing parts such as Dr. Guggenheim in Rushmore, William Stryker in X2: X-Men United and Agamemnon in Troy. He was the first actor to portray Hannibal Lecter on film in the 1986 production Manhunter. see wikipedia <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Brian+Cox">Rea
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Regression Models and Life-Tables
· 1972 · cited 36,085x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,698x
- A low-cost, high-efficiency solar cell based on dye-sensitized colloidal TiO2 films
· 1991 · cited 26,448x
- Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome
· 2011 · cited 19,129x
- Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities
· 2009 · cited 18,765x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1968-03-03 ) 3 March 1968 (age 58) , Oldham , England
- Education
- University of Manchester ( BSc , PhD )
- Occupations
- Physicist, musician
- Known for
- Why Does E=mc ? The Quantum Universe Wonders of Life Wonders of the Universe Wonders of the Solar System The Planets Human Universe Stargazing Live
- Spouse
- Gia Milinovich ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2003 )
- Awards
- Kelvin Prize (2010) Michael Faraday Prize (2012) University Research Fellow (2005)
- Fields
- Particle physics
- Institutions
- University of Manchester CERN DESY
- Thesis
- Double diffraction dissociation at large momentum transfer (1998)
- Doctoral advisor
- Robin Marshall
- Doctoral students
- Tamsin Edwards
- Instrument
Key dates
- Born
- 3 March 1968
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Edward
- Family name
- Cox
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Oldham
- Occupation
- voice actor
- Employer
- University of Manchester
- Languages spoken
Article
Brian Edward Cox (born 3 March 1968) is an English physicist and musician. He is a professor of particle physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester and the Royal Society Professor for Public Engagement in Science. He is best known to the public as the presenter of science programmes, especially BBC Radio 4's The Infinite Monkey Cage and the Wonders of... series and for popular science books, including Why Does E=mc? (2009) and The Quantum Universe (2011).
David Attenborough described Cox as the natural successor for the BBC's scientific programming. Before his academic career, he was a keyboard player for the rock band Dare, as well as a live and session keyboardist for the pop group D:Ream.
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