Guy Wilkinson (physicist)

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Guy Wilkinson
Chadwick 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

Studentship.[4][5]

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

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]

References

  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.)
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  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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