Professor Brian Cox is probably the best-known physicist in the world today. As presenter of the hit television series Wonders of the Solar System and Wonders of the Universe, his affable charm and infectious enthusiasm has brought science to a whole new audience. Born in Lancashire in 1968, Cox was a bright, but not brilliant pupil at school – only receiving a D grade for A level mathematics. He flourished at university, however, gaining a first-class honours degree and an MPhil in Physics from Manchester University before being awarded his PhD in particle physics in 1998. Alongside his studies he also found time to play keyboards for the band D:Ream, and the band topped the charts in 1994 with 'Things Can Only Get Better', which was famously used by the Labour Party for its 1997 election campaign. Although he has appeared in several television shows, Brian Cox is not just a celebrity presenter – he is a Royal Society University Research Fellow, a professor at the University of Manchester, and he also works on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland. In 2010 he was awarded an OBE for his services to science, and he has also won several awards for his television work.
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Ben Falk. The Wonder Of Brian Cox - The Unauthorised Biography Of The Man Who Brought Science To The Nation
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHILDHOOD
SCHOOL
DARE TO WIN
UNIVERSITY IS A D:REAM
ACADEMIA, LOVE AND TV
CERN… AND MORE
GOING TO HOLLYWOOD
THE BBC COMES KNOCKING…
MEGASTARDOM
THE FUTURE
COX’S LAWS
1. Creationism is a crock
2. We should be doing more space exploration
3. Repeat: increasing science funding and getting kids in schools to continue studying science is key to our world prospering in the future. Science is part of everything
4. Climate change is real – and those who disagree are ‘irritating’
5. Tweet as if your life depends on it
Copyright
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For Laura
Chapter 1: Childhood
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He would worry about quadratic equations later. School friend Tim Haughton certainly doesn’t remember Cox obsessing over his grades or schoolwork. ‘A lot of people look at someone like Brian and think geek,’ he says, ‘must have been, somebody who has got that level of knowledge and is into these things. But he just wasn’t. Although that was my initial impression of him, that he was geeky and studious, he certainly wasn’t as I remember him 14, 15 years old onwards. He was quite the partygoer, just a really down-to-earth regular lad. I remember him being a really good laugh, very much one of the lads. Awesome winklepickers!’
It’s worth pointing out not everyone at school had great respect for Cox. Definitely not the anonymous Facebooker, who created a page called ‘I urinated in Brian Cox’s school bag’. While it may be tempting to pass this off as a shameless social networking gag, there’s a mention of a teacher’s name – on the page Ben Counsel, but most likely meant to be Bernard Counsel, who was certainly a teacher at Oldham Hulme. A relative of Counsel’s even phoned up while Cox was on Radio 2 in 2011 to point out the fact that Counsel was one of his masters. You can decide how realistic this ‘anecdote’ may be.
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