Guy Wilkinson (physicist)

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Guy Wilkinson

FRS
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Wilkinson in 2018
Born
Guy Roderick Wilkinson

1968 (age 5556) [1]
Education Bishop's Stortford College
Alma mater Imperial College London (BSc)
Magdalen College, Oxford (DPhil) [2]
Awards Chadwick Medal and Prize (2017)
Scientific career
Institutions CERN
University of Oxford
Thesis A study of B⁰ B⁰ oscillations at the Z⁰ resonance  (1993)
Website www.chch.ox.ac.uk/staff/professor-guy-wilkinson

Guy Roderick Wilkinson FRS (born 1968 at Ashton-under-Lyne) [1] is a particle physicist, working on the Large Hadron Collider project at CERN, [3] professor of physics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Christ Church, where he holds the college's Alfred Moritz Studentship. [4] [5]

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Education

Wilkinson was educated at Bishop's Stortford College, [1] Imperial College London [6] and the University of Oxford where he was awarded a DPhil degree at Magdalen College in 1993 for a study of B⁰B⁰ oscillations at the Z⁰ resonance. [2]

Career and research

Wilkinson's career began in the study of electroweak physics on the DELPHI experiment, taking part in the measurement of the mass and width of the Z boson, and the mass of the W boson. Wilkinson currently specialises in CP-violation through measurements of processes involving the decays of hadrons containing beauty or charm quarks. He is a founding member and former spokesperson of the LHCb experiment on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

Awards and honours

In 2017 he was awarded the James Chadwick Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics (IOP) for his work on heavy quarks. [3] [6] [7] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2018. [3]

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References

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  2. 1 2 Wilkinson, Guy R. (1993). A study of B⁰ B⁰ oscillations at the Z⁰ resonance. bodleian.ox.ac.uk (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC   83037077. EThOS   uk.bl.ethos.334888.
  3. 1 2 3 Anon (2018). "Professor Guy Wilkinson FRS". London: Royal Society. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
    “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the Wayback Machine (archived 2016-11-11)
  4. "Professor Guy Wilkinson FRS | Christ Church, Oxford University". Christ Church. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
  5. "Guy Wilkinson - University of Oxford Department of Physics". physics.ox.ac.uk.
  6. 1 2 "Professor Guy Wilkinson - Christ Church, Oxford University". chch.ox.ac.uk.
  7. "Scientists have discovered an entirely new type of particle". independent.co.uk. The Independent. 7 July 2017.

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