Frank Close

Francis Edwin " Frank" Close ( born July 24, 1945 in Peterborough ) is a British particle physicist.

Close went to Peterborough to school and studied physics at the University of St. Andrews ( Bachelor 1967) and at the University of Oxford ( Magdalen College), where he received his doctorate in theoretical physics at Richard Dalitz 1970. As a post - graduate student he was at SLAC, was in 1973 at Daresbury Laboratory, and from 1973 to 1975 at CERN. From 1975 he was at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, where he led the theory department from 1991. 1997 to 2000 he was responsible for public relations at CERN. From 2001 he was Professor of Theoretical Physics at Oxford. 1996 to 2002 he was a visiting professor at the University of Birmingham.

He is known by various popular science books on particle physics, cosmology and related topics (such as cold fusion ).

He was on the Council of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures which he gave in 1993 ( published as Cosmic Onion ). In 1996 he received the Kelvin Medal, the 2013 Michael Faraday Prize. 2000 to 2003 he was Gresham Professor of Astronomy at University College London ( a professorship connected with public lectures). He was vice-president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.

Writings

  • An introduction to quarks and Partons, Academic Press 1979
  • The cosmic onion: quarks and the nature of the universe, Heineman, London 1983 Reprint 2006 by Taylor & Francis as The new cosmic onion
  • New edition as The particle odyssey: a journey to the heart of matter, Oxford University Press 2002
  • German edition The hot race for cold fusion. Birkhäuser, Basel 1992
  • German translation antimatter, Spektrum Akademischer Verlag 2010
  • German Translation: Nothingness understand: The Search for the vacuum and the development of quantum physics, spectrum Verlag 2009
  • German translation neutrino spectrum Springer 2012
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