I have just realised why they call him PROFESSOR Brian Cox

[freddiemisagreatshag]

Yes I am that thick. There's another one and he's old and doesn't play keyboards.

sashh do you think your mouse and my hamster called Dr Dr were in league with each other?

HeWasn'tADrEitherTiggaxx

Oh my goodness I adore this thread.

I love the idea of webchats, both for GiaGia and MrGia, separately of course.

I do have to thank MrGia for reigniting my dormant love of physics and communicating physics 15 years after I finished my Masters. He's got me all excited about Hadrons again...

It's all Jeremy Clarkson's fault. If he had made it clear which Brian Cox it was none of this would have happened

I think a lot of things can be blamed on Jeremy Clarkson.

Definitely agree with Frillymilly - get Gia on, much more interesting.

And much more MN may I say?

Oh my goodness this thread is amazing. Gia should definitely have a webchat.

Freddie if it makes you feel better, a tv company hired my workplace to film a show presented by Brian Cox and I was so excited to meet him (and may have made a right old song and dance about it in the weeks leading up to said filming) and, well, as you may have guessed it was not the Prof. so I looked like a right idiot on the day wondering who the old chap wandering around was. Turned out to be a delightful man though.

I'm not horrible really and in fairness didn't expect his wife to turn up.

I am forever BrianCox on MN and for that reason, he shall hold a schpeshial place in my heart. I'm sure he's lovely really

did anyone hear prof cox on 6 music this morning. he was stuck on the Scilly isles due to the fog?

if it's on a podcast I seriously suggest you listen. it was v v funny

(well it made me laugh)

\link{http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qm5hw\Shaun Keaveny podcast}

it's a 3-hour programme though...

think pbc was on about 2 1/2 hours into the show

So, which Brian Cox was it on Top Gear? I'm confused as I'm sure I have seen Professor Brian Cox on it, but from what Freddie is saying, it seems to have been the other one, hence the disappointment.

(Of course, they might both have been the Star in the Reasonably Priced Car.)

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I was going to say the same, he was the keyboard player in D:ream who did the song that the labour party tused for their theme tune in 1997 Things Can Only Ge Better

It must be a bit odd for the actor Brian Cox - for years he was the only famous one (I think he's played God) and now he's been ousted by someone else.

I thought he became a professor because of his work to promote public understanding of science and enthusiasm about science, not Prof'd from the actual science he's contributed to from own research. Either that or it turns out to be a lot easier to become a Prof in physics than any other subject. Still an important contribution I think he's done much better at than almost anyone else in recent years.

I thought he was a proper Prof? He's published loads.

I Heqd the other BC talking very amusingly about being asked onto Question Time and he is pretty sure they booked the wrong one.....

Um, he's a Professor from Manchester University who works on the ATLAS experiment at CERN and publishes research pretty prolifically. In addition to that he seems to do all the stuff around communicating science, his broadcasting stuff and teaching at Manchester.

He seems fairly busy to be honest.

Slightly hard to tell from a very quick Google Scholar search... there's quite a few scientists of that ilk.

I didn't even google

He's only first author on 4 pubs listed for 2009-2012. Or did I read that wrong? So badly formatted I can't see journal titles, even.

Who remembers how to find impact factors for individual academics? I don't.

I don't want to diss his contributions, but I still think his professorship was awarded for the value of his public roles (and good on those who recognised the value of them).

Gia said he was Professorised in 2008.

He's part of the ATLAS group which publish isn't he? Manchester University list publications with his name on here