English keyboard player and physicist (Dare)
The keyboard player from D:REAM who topped the UK charts with "Things Can Only Get Better" — Labour's 1997 election anthem — now operates the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Brian Cox didn't abandon music for physics; he did both simultaneously, recording pop hits while earning his doctorate in particle physics at Manchester. He worked on the ATLAS experiment hunting for the Higgs boson, the same particle he'd later explain to millions on BBC television. The guy who soundtracked Tony Blair's victory speech went on to make quarks and quantum fields more accessible than any scientist since Carl Sagan, proving you don't have to choose between making people dance and making them think.
March 3, 1968
58 years ago
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