B. R. Webber

Bryan Webber
Born	Bryan Ronald Webber (1943-07-25) 25 July 1943 (age 74)
Other names	B. R. Webber
Education	Colston's School
Alma mater	The Queen's College, Oxford University of California, Berkeley
Awards	Fellow of the Institute of Physics (1987) Fellow of the Royal Society (2001) Dirac Medal (2008) Sakurai Prize (2012)
Scientific career
Fields	Particle physics Theoretical physics
Institutions	Lawrence Radiation Laboratory Cavendish Laboratory
Thesis	A test of the [Delta]S=[Delta]Q rule in leptonic decays of neutral K mesons (1969)

Bryan Ronald Webber, FRS, FInstP (born 25 July 1943) is a British physicist and academic. He was a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge from 1973 to 2010, and Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge from 1999 to 2010. He has been awarded the Dirac Medal by the Institute of Physics and the Sakurai Prize by the American Physical Society.

Webber was born on 25 July 1943 to Frederick Ronald Webber and Iris Evelyn Webber (née Hutchings). He was educated at Colston's School, an independent school in Bristol. He studied at The Queen's College, Oxford and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1964. He then moved to California, United States, to undertake postgraduate research within the research group of Luis Walter Alvarez at the University of California, Berkeley. He completed his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in experimental particle physics in 1969 with a thesis titled A test of the [Delta]S=[Delta]Q rule in leptonic decays of neutral K mesons.

Webber began his academic career as a postdoctoral researcher at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, California. There, he researched strong interaction under Geoffrey Chew from 1969 to 1971. He then returned to England where he joined the University of Cambridge as a research assistant. By 1973, he was the only member of staff researching particle physics theory, and was appointed head of the Theoretical High Energy Physics Group at the Cavendish Laboratory.