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Brian Cox

Born

in Oldham, England, The United Kingdom

March 03, 1968

Website

http://www.apolloschildren.com/brian/

Twitter

ProfBrianCox

Genre

Science, Philosophy, Nonfiction

Influences

Carl Sagan

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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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Brian Cox’s books

Average rating: 4.17 · 40,404 ratings · 3,068 reviews · 78 distinct works • Similar authors

	Why Does E=mc²? by Brian Cox, Jeffrey R. Forshaw 4.05 avg rating — 9,759 ratings — published 2009 — 52 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Human Universe by Brian Cox, Andrew Cohen 4.28 avg rating — 4,787 ratings — published 2014 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Quantum Universe: Everything That Can Happen Does Happen by Brian Cox, Jeffrey R. Forshaw 3.75 avg rating — 4,413 ratings — published 2011 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wonders of the Universe by Brian Cox, Andrew Cohen 4.33 avg rating — 2,463 ratings — published 2011 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Planets by Brian Cox, Andrew Cohen 4.45 avg rating — 2,360 ratings — published 2019 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Forces of Nature by Brian Cox, Andrew Cohen 4.09 avg rating — 2,475 ratings — published 2016 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wonders of the Solar System by Brian Cox, Andrew Cohen 4.37 avg rating — 1,714 ratings — published 2010 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Infinite Monkey Cage – How to Build a Universe by Brian Cox, Robin Ince 3.98 avg rating — 1,285 ratings — published 2017 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe by Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw 3.96 avg rating — 1,168 ratings — published 2022 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Universal 4.07 avg rating — 809 ratings — published 2016 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Brian Cox

Science with Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw (4 books)
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Wonders of Brian Cox (with Andrew Cohen) (6 books)
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Quotes by Brian Cox (?)

“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

212 likes

“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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