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Guy Wilkinson (physicist)

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Guy Wilkinson
Wilkinson in 2018
Born
Guy Roderick Wilkinson

1968 (age 55–56)[1]
EducationBishop's Stortford College
Alma materImperial College London (BSc)
Magdalen College, Oxford (DPhil)[2]
AwardsChadwick Medal and Prize (2017)
Scientific career
InstitutionsCERN
University of Oxford
ThesisA study of B⁰ B⁰ oscillations at the Z⁰ resonance (1993)
Websitewww.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]

Education

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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

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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

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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]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Anon (2019). "Wilkinson, Prof. Guy Roderick". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ a b 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. ^ a b c 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. ^ a b "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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