Guy Wilkinson (physicist)

Guy Wilkinson
FRS
Born Guy R. Wilkinson
Alma mater Imperial College London (BSc)
University of Oxford (DPhil)[1]
Awards Chadwick Medal and Prize (2017)
Scientific career
Institutions CERN
University of Oxford
Thesis A study of B⁰ B⁰ oscillations at the Z⁰ resonance (1993)
Website www.chch.ox.ac.uk/staff/professor-guy-wilkinson

Guy R. Wilkinson FRS is a particle physicist at the University of Oxford working on the Large Hadron Collider project at CERN[2] and a Fellow of Christ Church, Oxford.[3]

Education

Wilkinson was educated at Imperial College London[4] and the University of Oxford where he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1993 for a study of B⁰B⁰ oscillations at the Z⁰ resonance.[1]

Career and research

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 zboson, and the mass of the W. Wilkinson currently specializes 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

In 2017 was awarded the Chadwick Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics (IOP) for his work on heavy quarks.[2][4][5] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2018.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 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.
  2. 1 2 3 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)
  3. ↑ "Guy Wilkinson - University of Oxford Department of Physics". physics.ox.ac.uk.
  4. 1 2 "Professor Guy Wilkinson - Christ Church, Oxford University". chch.ox.ac.uk.
  5. ↑ "Scientists have discovered an entirely new type of particle". independent.co.uk. The Independent.

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