Brian Cox (physicist)
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Brian Cox at the Royal Society admissions day in London, July 2016
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| Born | Brian Edward Cox 3 March 1968 Oldham, Lancashire, England |
| Residence | Battersea |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Fields | Particle physics |
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| Education | Oldham Hulme Grammar School |
| Alma mater | University of Manchester |
| Thesis | Double diffraction dissociation at large momentum transfer (1998) |
| Doctoral advisor | Robin Marshall |
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| Spouse | Gia Milinovich (m. 2003) |
| Children | Moki, George |
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Brian Edward Cox, OBE, FRS (born 3 March 1968) is an English physicist, and Professor of particle physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester. He is best known to the public as the presenter of science programmes, especially the Wonders of... series and for popular science books, such as Why Does E=mc²? and The Quantum Universe. He has been the author or co-author of over 950 scientific publications.
Cox has been described as the natural successor for BBC's scientific programming by both David Attenborough and the late Patrick Moore. Before his academic career, Cox was a keyboard player for the bands D:Ream and Dare.
Cox was born in the Royal Oldham Hospital, later living in Chadderton, Oldham, from 1971. His parents worked for Yorkshire Bank, his mother as a cashier and his father as a middle-manager in the same branch. He recalls a happy childhood in Oldham that included pursuits such as dance, gymnastics, plane spotting and even bus spotting. He attended the independent Hulme Grammar School in Oldham from 1979 to 1986. He has stated in many interviews and in an episode of Wonders of the Universe that when he was 12, the book Cosmos by Carl Sagan was a key factor in inspiring him to become a physicist. He revealed on The Jonathan Ross Show that he performed poorly on his Maths A-level: "I got a D ... I was really not very good ... I found out you need to practise."
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