What is Brian Cox (physicist)?
{{Infobox scientist | name = Brian Cox | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE|FRS}} | image = Professor_Brian_Cox_OBE_FRS.jpg | image_size = | caption = Brian Cox at the [[Royal Society]] admissions day in London, July 2016 | birth_name = Brian Edward Cox | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1968|3|3}} | birth_place = [[Oldham]], [[Lancashire]], England | fields = [[Particle physics]] | workplaces = {{Plainlist| * [[University of Manchester]] * [[CERN]] * [[DESY]]}} | alma_mater = [[University of Manchester]] (BSc, MPhil, PhD) | thesis_title = Double diffraction dissociation at large momentum transfer | thesis_url = http://www-h1.desy.de/psfiles/theses/h1th-679.pdf | thesis_year = 1998 | doctoral_advisor = [[Robin Marshall]] | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = [[Tamsin Edwards]]<ref name=tamphd>{{Cite thesis|last=Edwards|degree=PhD|publisher=University of Manchester|first=Tamsin L.|date=2006|title=Diffractively produced Z bosons in the muon decay channel in pp collisions at √s=1.96 TeV, and the measurement of the efficiency of the DØ Run II Luminosity Monitor|url=http://inspirehep.net/record/716978|doi=10.2172/892267|id={{Copac| 36713207}}|oclc=930686728}}</ref> | notable_students = | known_for = {{Plainlist| * ''[[Why Does E=mc²?]]'' * ''[[The Quantum Universe]]'' * ''[[Wonders of Life (TV series)|Wonders of Life]]'' * ''[[Wonders of the Universe]]'' * ''[[Wonders of the Solar System]]'' * ''[[The Planets (2019 TV series)|The Planets]]'' * ''[[Human Universe]]'' * '' [[Stargazing Live]]'' * [[D Ream|D:Ream]] * [[Dare (band)|Dare]]}} | influences = {{Plainlist| * [[Richard Feynman]] * [[Carl Sagan]]}} | influenced = | awards = {{Plainlist| * [[Royal Society of Edinburgh|Lord Kelvin Medal]] (2006) * [[Kelvin Prize]] (2010) * [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] (2010) * [[Michael Faraday Prize]] (2012) * [[Royal Society University Research Fellowship|University Research Fellow]] (2005–2013) * [[Fellow of the Royal Soc