Nigel Glover

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Nigel Glover
Born (1961-06-20) 20 June 1961 (age 62) [1]
Sunderland, England, UK
Alma mater
Awards Fellow of the Royal Society (2013)
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Thesis Studies of high energy pp collisions
Doctoral advisor Alan Martin [3]

Edward William Nigel Glover (born 20 June 1961) FRS is a British particle physicist. He is a professor of physics at the University of Durham. [2] He graduated from Downing College, Cambridge, with a first in Natural Sciences, and went on to complete a doctorate at Hatfield College, Durham. [4]

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Research

Glover conducts research on the phenomenology of particle physics. His calculations based on quantum chromodynamics — the theory of the strong nuclear force — are relevant to measurements made at the Large Hadron Collider. [5]

Awards and honours

Glover was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2013. His citation reads:

Nigel Glover has made pivotal research contributions to the understanding of data collected at all high-energy particle physics colliders. His theoretical studies of weak boson, Higgs, and particularly jet production are used world-wide. He is especially distinguished for his contributions to the development and exploitation of the perturbative structure of Quantum Chromodynamics, which is vital for precision measurements at the LHC. Glover's numerous technical innovations include the use of helicities for QCD loop amplitudes, the elucidation of the infrared structure of one and two-loop processes, and pioneering work on the second-order perturbative corrections to scattering cross sections. [6]

Personal life

Glover is married to Belgian mathematical physicist Anne Taormina. [7]

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References

  1. "Glover, Prof. (Edward William) Nigel" . Who's Who . Vol. 2017 (online Oxford University Press  ed.). Oxford: A & C Black.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. 1 2 Staff profile, University of Durham, retrieved 2016-02-28.
  3. Edward William Nigel Glover at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. "Profile". Linkedin. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
  5. "Nigel Glover". London: Royal Society. One or more of the preceding sentences may incorporate 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". Archived from the original on 2017-07-10. Retrieved 2016-03-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link), "Intellectual property rights"
  6. "Professor Nigel Glover FRS". London: The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2013-05-13.
  7. "Anne Taormina (Professor and Head of Department, Mathematical Sciences, Durham University)", Women in Maths, 21 October 2015 via Facebook