Born in Oldham, who is the Chair of Particle Physics at the University of Manchester?
"and is a Distinguished Supporter of Humanists UK. He is an Oldham Athletic fan, and held a season ticket at the club. Brian Cox (physicist) Brian Edward Cox (born 3 March 1968) is an English physicist who serves as 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"
"university (namely the first working computer and the contraceptive pill). The university currently employs four Nobel Prize winners amongst its staff, more than any other in the UK. The Langworthy Professorship, an endowed chair at the University's School of Physics and Astronomy, has been historically given to a long line of academic luminaries, including Ernest Rutherford (1907–19), Lawrence Bragg (1919–37), Patrick Blackett (1937–53) and more recently Konstantin Novoselov, all of whom have won the Nobel Prize. In 2013 Manchester was given the Regius Professorship in Physics, the only one of its kind in the UK; the current holder is Andre"
"Langworthy Professor The Langworthy Professor is the holder of an endowed chair in the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, England. It was founded by a bequest of £10,000 for the purpose of endowing a professorship of experimental physics by E. R. Langworthy in 1874. It began at Owens College and from 1903/04 to 2004 was a chair at the Victoria University of Manchester, now The University of Manchester. Previous holders include the Nobel prize winners Ernest Rutherford (1907–19), Lawrence Bragg (1919–37), Patrick Blackett (1937–1953), Andre Geim (2007–2013) and Konstantin Novoselov (2013–). Others were Andrew Lyne (?-2007), Brian"
"Flowers, Arthur Schuster (1888–1907), Samuel Devons. The current holder is Konstantin Novoselov (2013–). Langworthy Professor The Langworthy Professor is the holder of an endowed chair in the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, England. It was founded by a bequest of £10,000 for the purpose of endowing a professorship of experimental physics by E. R. Langworthy in 1874. It began at Owens College and from 1903/04 to 2004 was a chair at the Victoria University of Manchester, now The University of Manchester. Previous holders include the Nobel prize winners Ernest Rutherford (1907–19), Lawrence Bragg (1919–37), Patrick Blackett (1937–1953),"
"Nobel laureates in Physics out of the 25 awarded to staff or students of the University of Manchester as a whole. Most recently, Manchester physicists Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics for their pioneering work with graphene. The University's history is closely linked to Manchester's emergence as the world's first industrial city. Manchester businessmen and industrialists established the Mechanics' Institute to ensure that their workers could learn the basic principles of science. Similarly, John Owens, a Manchester textile merchant, left a bequest of £96,942 in 1851 for the purpose of founding a college for"
"physicist in the family is a rare occurrence. That there should be two and both be leaders of the field is even more unusual, yet Professors Peter and George Kalmus have achieved this."" Kalmus has one son and one daughter, and one grandchild. He currently resides in London. Peter Kalmus Peter Ignaz Paul Kalmus (born 25 January 1933), is a British particle physicist, and emeritus professor of physics at Queen Mary, University of London. Kalmus was born in Prague on 25 January 1933, and moved to Britain with his parents and younger brother George Kalmus in 1939. His sister Elsa"
"Nancy Rothwell Dame Nancy Jane Rothwell (born 2 October 1955) is a British physiologist, President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manchester since July 2010, having been Deputy President and Deputy Vice-Chancellor since January 2010. Rothwell is also a director of pharmaceuticals company AstraZeneca, co-chair of the Council for Science and Technology and past President of the Royal Society of Biology. She is a Deputy Lieutenant of Greater Manchester. Rothwell was born in Tarleton, a village near Preston, Lancashire. She was educated at Penwortham Girls’ Grammar School and then went to college where she took four A-levels in maths, physics,"
"and their daughter. Miles J. Padgett Miles John Padgett, (born 1 June 1963) is Professor of Optics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Glasgow. He has held the Kelvin Chair of Natural Philosophy since 2011 and has been Vice Principal for Research at Glasgow since 2014. Padgett was educated at the University of Manchester, the University of York, the University of St Andrews and Trinity College, Cambridge where he was awarded a PhD in 1988. Together with Alan James Duncan and Wilson Sibbett Padgett conducted pioneering work on optical angular momentum, for which he was"
"Timothy John O'Brien Timothy John O'Brien (born 31 March 1964) is a British astronomer, currently working at the University of Manchester as Professor of Astrophysics. He often appears on the BBC. He was born in Littleborough, Greater Manchester. He grew up in Castleton, Greater Manchester in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale. He has a younger sister (born 1965) and a younger brother (born 1967). He attended school in Rochdale. He studied Physics and Astrophysics at University College London. He studied for a PhD at the University of Manchester from 1985-88. He taught at the University of Liverpool in the 1990s."
"to his research interests at CERN and the LHC (Large Hadron Collider), at what is a particularly exciting time for particle physics."" This announcement led to the republication of previous allegations. Roger Cashmore Roger John Cashmore (born 22 August 1944) is the Chair of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. Previously he was Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford and Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Oxford. His interests include the origin of the masses of particles and the Higgs boson. Cashmore was educated at Dudley Boys Grammar School, St John's College, Cambridge (BA 1965, MA), Balliol College, Oxford,"
"Bill Wakeham Sir William Arnot Wakeham FREng (born 25 September 1944) is a British chemical engineer. From 2001 to 2009 he was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Southampton. Wakeham received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in physics at Exeter University. He served as a Research Associate at Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island. In 1971 appointed lecturer in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemical Technology at Imperial College, London. He was successively Reader in 1979, Professor of Chemical Physics in 1985, and head of the Department of Chemical Engineering in 1988. His academic specialty is thermodynamics, particularly the thermophysical"
"Fellow of the Royal Society, and in 2006 was awarded the Guthrie Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics. Stoneham was elected President of the Institute of Physics in 2010 and died during his term in office. Marshall Stoneham Arthur Marshall Stoneham, FRS (May 18, 1940 Barrow, Cumbria, UK – February 18, 2011), known as Marshall Stoneham, was a British physicist who worked for the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, and from 1995 was Massey professor of physics at University College London. Stoneham obtained his B.Sc. in physics from the University of Bristol in 1961, and his Ph.D. in"
"Norman Clarke (physicist) Norman Clarke OBE (21 October 1916 – 22 November 2002), was a British physicist and politician. Clarke was the eldest son of Joseph Clarke and Ellen Clarke of Oldham. He was educated at Hulme Grammar School, Oldham and then the University of Manchester, where he obtained a Bachelor of Science. While at Manchester he was President of the University Union from 1938–39. In 1940 he married Hilda May Watts. They had two daughters. In 1982 he was awarded the OBE. During the war Clarke worked on research for the Ministry of Supply. He was at the External"
"Woolton Hall is next to Oak House. Allen Hall is a traditional hall near Ashburne Hall (Sheavyn House being annexed to Ashburne). Richmond Park is a recent addition to the campus. Many notable people have worked or studied at one or both of the two former institutions that now form the University of Manchester, including 25 Nobel prize laureates. Some of the best-known are: John Dalton (founder of modern atomic theory), Ernest Rutherford who proved the nuclear nature of the atom whilst working at Manchester, Ludwig Wittgenstein (considered one of the most significant philosophers of the 20th century, who studied"
"Heather Williams (physicist) Heather Williams (born 1977) is a British medical physicist working as Principal Medical Physicist for Nuclear Medicine at The Christie NHS Foundation Trust. She is also a lecturer in the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health at University of Manchester, as well as the University of Salford and University of Cumbria. Heather Williams was born on 20 June 1977 in Kingston upon Hull, and was state-educated in the east of the city. Williams completed a BSc in Physics with Medical Physics at the University of Nottingham, before an MSc in Physics and Computing with Medicine and Biology"
"being subsequently added. Manchester has traditionally been strong in the sciences; it is where the nuclear nature of the atom was discovered by Ernest Rutherford, and the world's first electronic stored-program computer was built at the university. Notable scientists associated with the university include physicists Ernest Rutherford, Osborne Reynolds, Niels Bohr, James Chadwick, Arthur Schuster, Hans Geiger, Ernest Marsden and Balfour Stewart. Contributions in other fields such as mathematics were made by Paul Erdős, Horace Lamb and Alan Turing and in philosophy by Samuel Alexander, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Alasdair MacIntyre. The author Anthony Burgess, Pritzker Prize and RIBA Stirling Prize-winning"
"Paul Corkum Paul Bruce Corkum (born October 30, 1943) is a specializing in attosecond physics and laser science. He holds a joint University of Ottawa–NRC chair in Attosecond Photonics. He is one of the students of strong field atomic physics, ""i.e."" atoms and plasmas in super-intense laser fields. Corkum was born in Saint John, New Brunswick. He obtained his BSc (1965) from Acadia University, Nova Scotia, and his MSc (1967) and PhD (1972) in theoretical physics from Lehigh University, Pennsylvania. He won several awards for his work on laser science. Corkum is both a theorist and an experimentalist. In the"
"of Pennsylvania, and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. He was subsequently a postdoctoral fellow and then a scientist at CEA, Grenoble before joining the University of Edinburgh as a Professor of Physics in 2006. Huxley is an alumnae of the Quantum Matter Group (formerly the Low Temperature Physics) of the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge that have gone on to become leading physicists. Andrew D. Huxley Andrew D. Huxley (born 1966) is a chair of the physics department of the University of Edinburgh. Of no relation to Sir Andrew F. Huxley (the English physiologist and biophysicist), Huxley is"
"University of Manchester in 1909, where the Geiger counter was invented, which demonstrated the existence of the atomic nucleus. Sir J. J. Thomson of Cheetham Hill discovered the electron (given its name in 1891 by George Johnstone Stoney) in April 1897 and received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1906; his son George Paget Thomson would win the Nobel Prize for Physics 1937 for discovering electron diffraction (at the University of Aberdeen). John Dalton, from Cumbria and moved to Manchester, developed atomic theory. William Sturgeon of Lancashire invented the electromagnet in 1825. Sydney Chapman, a mathematician from Eccles, in 1930"
"an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2009 Birthday Honours. Helen Gleeson Helen F. Gleeson OBE is a British physicist. As of 2015 she holds the chair of Cavendish Professor at the University of Leeds, having left the University of Manchester at the start of 2015. Gleeson graduated from the University of Manchester in 1983 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Physics. She went to study for a PhD which she was awarded in 1986 for investigations of the optical and electro-optical properties of chiral mesophases. Gleeson's research investigates self-assembling and self-ordering"
"Claudia de Rham Claudia de Rham (29 March 1978) is a Swiss theoretical physicist working at the interface of gravity, cosmology and particle physics. She is based at Imperial College London. She won the Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists in 2018 for revitalizing the theory of massive gravity. Claudia de Rham (29 March 1978) was born in Lausanne. She completed her undergraduate studies in France, receiving an engineering degree in physics at the Ecole Polytechnique of Paris, in 2000. She received a Masters degree in Physics from the EPFL, Swiss Institute of Technology, in 2001. In 2002, de Rham moved"
"prize. In 2016, he was elected as a Simons Fellow in Theoretical Physics and received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Mark Newman Mark Newman is a British physicist and Anatol Rapoport Distinguished University Professor of Physics at the University of Michigan, as well as an external faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute. He is known for his fundamental contributions to the fields of complex networks and complex systems, for which he was awarded the 2014 Lagrange Prize. Mark Newman grew up in Bristol, England, where he was a pupil at Bristol Cathedral School, and earned both an undergraduate degree and a"
"Peter Williams (physicist) Sir Peter Michael Williams, (born 22 March 1945) is a British physicist. Williams was educated at Hymers College and completed his undergraduate degree at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1966, and his PhD at Selwyn College, Cambridge with a thesis entitled """"Defect structure and luminescent properties of semiconductors"""" in 1969. He began an academic career at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He then moved to industry and worked first at VG Instruments and later Oxford Instruments. He was chairman of Oxford Instruments from 1991 until his retirement in 1999. Sir Peter is currently Chairman of the National Physical Laboratory and"
"Peter Kalmus Peter Ignaz Paul Kalmus (born 25 January 1933), is a British particle physicist, and emeritus professor of physics at Queen Mary, University of London. Kalmus was born in Prague on 25 January 1933, and moved to Britain with his parents and younger brother George Kalmus in 1939. His sister Elsa was born in 1945. The family became British citizens in 1946. Kalmus went to school first in London and then in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. From 1943 till 1951 he was at St Albans County Grammar School (later renamed Verulam School). He received his BSc (1954) and PhD (1957) at"
"commented that ""A particle physicist in the family is a rare occurrence. That there should be two and both be leaders of the field is even more unusual, yet Professors Peter and George Kalmus have achieved this."" Kalmus has three daughters. He currently resides in Abingdon with his wife, Ann Christine (née Harland) Kalmus. George Kalmus George Ernest Kalmus, CBE, FRS (born 21 April 1935) is a noted British particle physicist. Kalmus was born in Beočin, Yugoslavia, and moved to Britain with his parents and his elder brother Peter Kalmus in 1939. His sister Elsa Joan Kalmus was born in"
"Ed Corrigan Francis Edward ""Ed"" Corrigan FRS (born 10 August 1946 in Birkenhead) is a British mathematician, theoretical physicist, and professor at the University of York. He attended St Bede's College, Manchester 1957-65 and earned a BA (1968) and PhD (1972) at the University of Cambridge. He was Addison Wheeler Fellow in the Department of Mathematical Sciences Durham University 1972–74, CERN Fellow 1974–75, and worked at Durham from 1976 to 1999 (including as Head of Department 1996–98). He then moved to the University of York where he was Head of Department of Mathematics 1999–2004, 2005–2007 and 2011–2015. He was Principal"
"physics at the Victoria University of Manchester. Rutherford hypothesised the Rutherford model, which was later improved on by Niels Bohr who proposed the Bohr model. Rutherford would later have a great influence on students such as Niels Bohr, Hans Geiger, Ernest Marsden and James Chadwick. Rutherford's main work would come in 1917 when he would 'split the atom'. From the advent of aviation at the beginning of the 20th century, Manchester has been home to a number of famous aviation companies, most notably Avro. In 1910, French aviator Louis Paulhan flew from London to Manchester in approximately 12 hours. Paulhan"
"Institute of Physics. He is also Director of the Oxford Centre for Doctoral Training in Autonomous Intelligent Machines and Systems (AIMS). The founding director of OMI was Professor Neil Shephard, who served from 2007 to 2011. Terry Lyons served as director from 2011 to 2015. In October 2016 the University of Oxford appointed Mihaela van der Schaar to the Man Professorship of Quantitative Finance. The Professorship is funded in perpetuity by a charitable gift of £3.3m made by the Charitable Trust of Man Group plc. A number of faculty members are notable researchers, including: Departments of the University currently represented"
"Miles J. Padgett Miles John Padgett, (born 1 June 1963) is Professor of Optics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Glasgow. He has held the Kelvin Chair of Natural Philosophy since 2011 and has been Vice Principal for Research at Glasgow since 2014. Padgett was educated at the University of Manchester, the University of York, the University of St Andrews and Trinity College, Cambridge where he was awarded a PhD in 1988. Together with Alan James Duncan and Wilson Sibbett Padgett conducted pioneering work on optical angular momentum, for which he was awarded in 2009"
"and a member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Science since 1987. He was elected to the Nobel Committee for Physics in 2006, and is its chairman from 2010. Ingemar Lundström Ingemar Lundström, born May 9, 1941 in Skellefteå, Sweden is a Swedish Professor of Applied Physics at Linköping University. Professor Lundström received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1967 at Chalmers University of Technology and his Ph.D. in Solid State Physics in 1970 from the same university. He worked at Chalmers until 1978 when he was appointed a Professor in the Chair of Applied Physics at Linköping University, a"
"new ground. Rutherford began his work on splitting the atom at the University (and later received the Nobel Prize in 1908 for his work on radioactivity). The world's first electronic stored-program computer, the Manchester Baby, came into being at the University, as did its successor, the Manchester Mark 1. The University of Manchester was the birthplace of Chemical Engineering. The world's first steerable radio telescope at Jodrell Bank was built at the University by Bernard Lovell. Since 1906, when former student Joseph Thompson won the Nobel Prize in Physics, the faculty and its antecedent institutions have produced more than 11"
"appointed to the post in 2007. Previous holders of the Fielden Chair (and lectureship) are: The other endowed chairs in mathematics at the University of Manchester are the Beyer Chair of Applied Mathematics, the Sir Horace Lamb Chair and the Richardson Chair of Applied Mathematics. Fielden Professor of Pure Mathematics The Fielden Chair of Pure Mathematics is an endowed professorial position in the School of Mathematics, University of Manchester, England. In 1870 Samuel Fielden, a wealthy mill owner from Todmorden, donated £150 to Owens College (as the Victoria University of Manchester was then called) for the teaching of evening classes"
"Yang Fujia Professor Yang Fujia (Chinese:楊福家 Pinyin: ""Yáng Fújiā"") (b. June 1936) is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a renowned nuclear physicist and former Chancellor of the University of Nottingham, England. He is currently President of the University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China (UNNC). Yang's ancestral hometown is Zhenhai County (current Zhenhai District), Ningbo, Zhejiang Province. He was born in Shanghai, graduated from Shanghai Ge-Zhi High School 上海格致中學 and obtained a degree in physics from Fudan University. He was a lecturer and professor of physics at Fudan, serving as President of the university from 1994 to 1999. Yang"