Brian Cox
  • Birthplace

    Oldham, Lancashire, England, UK

  • Birthday
    March 3, 1968

    Deathday
    N/A

Brian Cox

Brian Edward Cox, OBE, is a British particle physicist, a Royal Society University Research Fellow and a 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.

Brian Cox awards and nominations
Year Category Subcategory Info Movie/Tv Series
2011 Royal Television Society, UK Winner RTS Television Award Best Presenter (Brian Cox) Wonders of the Solar System
Year Category Subcategory Info Movie/Tv Series
2021 Academy Awards, USA Nominee Oscar Best Achievement in Visual Effects (Matt Sloan, Genevieve Camilleri, Matt Everitt, Brian Cox)
2012 BAFTA Awards Nominee BAFTA TV Award Best Specialist Factual (James Van Der Pool, Brian Cox, Jonathan Renouf, Michael Lachmann) Wonders of the Universe
2003 Teen Choice Awards Nominee Teen Choice Award Choice Movie Villain (Brian Cox) X2
2000 Satellite Awards Nominee Golden Satellite Award Best Visual Effects (Steve Courtley, Brian Cox, John Gaeta) The Matrix
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