Brian Cox (physicist)


Brian Edward Cox, OBE FRS is an English physicist, and Advanced Fellow 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 Emc and The Quantum Universe. Cox has been described as the natural successor for BBCs scientific programming by both David Attenborough and the late Patrick Moore. Before his academic career, Cox was a keyboard player for the bands DReam and Dare.

Cox was born in the Royal Oldham Hospital, later living in Chadderton, Oldham, from 1971, Coxs parents worked for Yorkshire Bank, his mother as a cashier and his father as a middlemanager in the same branch. He recalls a happy childhood in Oldham that included pursuits such as dance, gymnastics, plane spotting and even bus spotting.He attended the independent Hulme Grammar School in Oldham from 1979 to 1986. He has stated in many interviews and in an episode of Wonders of the Universe that when he was 12, the book Cosmos by Carl Sagan was a key factor in inspiring him to become a physicist. Cox revealed on The Jonathan Ross Show that he performed poorly on his Maths Alevel I got a D160... I was really not very good160... I found out you need to practice. He cites a lack of interest and fledgling band commitments as the reason for the result.

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