Brian Cox

Birthday: 3/3/1968
Place of birth: Oldham, Lancashire, England, UK
Fame for: Acting
Also known as: Professor Brian Cox, Prof. Brian Cox, Dr. Brian Cox, B.E. Cox
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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.