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Brian Cox


Born
in Oldham, England
March 03, 1968

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Genre
Science, Philosophy, Nonfiction

Influences
Carl Sagan


Not to be confused with actor [Author: Brian Cox].

Brian Edward Cox, OBE (born 3 March 1968) is a British particle physicist, a Royal Society University Research Fellow, PPARC Advanced Fellow and 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.

He is best known to the public as the presenter of a number of scien ...more

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Average rating: 4.17 · 42,446 ratings · 3,242 reviews · 84 distinct works • Similar authors
Why Does E=mc²?
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4.05 avg rating — 10,067 ratings — published 2009 — 57 editions
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Human Universe
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The Quantum Universe: Every...
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The Planets
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Wonders of the Universe
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Forces of Nature
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Wonders of the Solar System
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Black Holes: The Key to Und...
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The Infinite Monkey Cage: H...
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Universal
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“We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.”
― Brian Cox
tags: consciousness, cosmos, inspirational, life, universe
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“The problem with today’s world is that everyone believes they have the right to express their opinion AND have others listen to it.

The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right to an opinion, but crucially, that opinion can be roundly ignored and even made fun of, particularly if it is demonstrably nonsense!”
― Brian Cox
tags: atheism, critical-thinking, freedom, freedom-of-speech, honesty, manipulation, offense, opinions, rationality, religion, society
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“You dig deeper and it gets more and more complicated, and you get confused, and it's tricky and it's hard, but... It is beautiful.”
― Brian Cox
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