"The Value of Big Science: CERN, the LHC and the exploration of the Universe"

Brian Cox's 2010 BHA Voltaire Lecture.
Professor Brian Cox holds a chair in particle physics at the University of Manchester and works on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, CERN near Geneva. Brian, a former member of pop band D:Ream, also works in television and radio and delivers talks to schools, science festivals and conferences. He has written articles for The New Statesmen and The Times and was a technical consultant on Danny Boyles film, Sunshine. The LHC is an international research project involving scientists, support staff and engineers from more than a hundred nations, making it one of the largest scientific experiments ever conducted. Available to stream legally at YouTube.

Edited by Thomas Gibson-Robinson at 16:14, Thursday, 29^th of July 2010.