Professor Brian Cox, OBE

presenter and Physicist

A familiar face on British television screens, Brian Cox is first and foremost a physicist as a professor at the University of Manchester, where he is also a School of Physics and Astronomy advanced fellow and member of the High Energy Physics Group. Cox also works on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. However, one of his biggest contributions to science is as a populariser. He made sporadic appearances on Horizon from 2005 and began presenting his own BBC science series Wonders of the Solar System in 2010. Since then has appeared regularly on quiz shows and as a co-presenter of the hugely popular Stargazing Live series. Cox’s fan following has led people to tip him as heir apparent to the great David Attenborough. Often dubbed as a ‘rockstar physicist’, he was a keyboard player during the ’90s in chart-topping band D:Ream.

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