• Question: do you know any famous scientists in cern

    Asked by near520bach on 30 Jun 2025.
    • Photo: Emma Bull

      Emma Bull answered on 30 Jun 2025:

      I don’t know anyone at CERN personally no, but I have met Prof Brian Cox twice who has worked at CERN!

    • Photo: Daniel Moise

      Daniel Moise answered on 1 Jul 2025:

      I do know several people, mainly from my collaboration, that are well known around CERN, but I’m not sure how famous they are to the general public; so generally I don’t know. One person you might know is my colleague Harry Cliff, he’s written lovely books on the subject of particle physics. I highly recommend them, he’s got a great way of explaining challenging topics. One of the chapters in his book Space Oddities talks about the subject of my PhD thesis!

    • Photo: Martin Pike

      Martin Pike answered on 22 Jul 2025:

      No, but a friend of mine does know someone who works there!
      My point is that CERN is staffed by ambitious but ordinary people. Aspiring to be involved is maybe not as out of sight as you might imagine.
      My son is badgering me to do an Open University course in Planetary Science; on the basis that I might meet Brian Cox. It could happen. The course would be interesting in any case.

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