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Brian Cox

Brian Edward Cox CBE FRS is an English physicist and former musician who serves as professor of particle physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester. He is best known to the public as the presenter of science programmes, especially the Wonders of... series and for popular science books, such as Why Does E=mc²? and The Quantum Universe.


Aliases
  • Professor Brian Cox
English

Absolutely Anything

2015
as himself (Professor Brian Cox)

The Invocation

2010
as Himself

Writer

Episode The Infinite Monkey Cage
100th Episode TV Special
2018
Episode The Infinite Monkey Cage
UFO Special
2020
Episode The Infinite Monkey Cage
Lucy Beaumont's Close Encounters
2020

Host

Series The Entire Universe
Series The Big Bang Machine 2008
Episode TED-Ed
CERN's supercollider - Brian Cox
2012
Series Universe 2021
Series Solar System (2024) 2024
Series Brian Cox: Space, Time & Videotape 2021
Movie Brian Cox Seven Days on Mars
Series Brian Cox's Adventures in Space and Time 2021
Series Stargazing Live: Back to Earth 2012
Series The Infinite Monkey Cage
Series The Planets (2019) 2019
Series Forces of Nature with Brian Cox 2016
Series Stargazing Live 2011
Series Science Britannica 2013
Series A Symphonic Odyssey With Professor Brian Cox
Series Wonders of the Universe 2011
Series Wonders of Life 2013
Series Brian Cox: Life of a Universe 2017
Series Horizon 1964
Series Human Universe 2014

Guest Star

Episode The ONE Show
Professor Brian Cox
2017
Episode Would I Lie to You?
Keeley Hawes, Stephen Mangan, Kevin Bridges and Brian Cox
2010
Episode QI
Justice
2012
Episode Newsnight
11/09/2008
2008
Episode Conan (2010)
Terry Crews, Prof. Brian Cox, Solomon Georgio
2015
Episode Sunday Morning
Episode 19
2022
Episode The Science of Doctor Who
The Science of Doctor Who
2013
Episode The Project (2009)
Thursday 04 Aug
2016
Episode Horizon
Journey to the Moon: A Horizon Special
2019
Episode John Bishop: In Conversation With...
Professor Brian Cox
2017
Episode Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe
2016 Wipe
2016
Episode QI
Incomprehensible
2011
Episode The 21st Century Race For Space
The 21st Century Race For Space
2017
Episode Ricky Gervais Is Deadly Sirius
Episode 2
2017
Episode Q+A
Experts and Empirical Evidence
2016
Episode BBC Documentaries
Professor Brian Cox: A Night With The Stars
2011
Episode The Jonathan Ross Show
John Bishop, Professor Brian Cox, Lana Del Ray
2012
Episode The Last Leg
Episode 2
2013
Episode The Colbert Report
Brian Cox
2011
Episode BBC Documentaries
The Infinite Monkey Cage 100th Episode TV Special
2018
Episode Q+A
Q&A Science Special: Monday, 17 June
2019
Episode BBC Music
Holst: The Planets with Professor Brian Cox
2019
Episode The Joe Rogan Experience
#1233 - Brian Cox
2019
Episode One Plus One
Brian Cox
2018
Episode Q+A
Section 44, Space and Skeptics
2017
Episode BBC Documentaries
The 21st Century Race for Space
2017
Episode The Last Leg
Episode 7
2017
Episode Rutland Weekend Television
The Entire Universe
2016
Episode BBC Comedy
The Entire Universe
2016
Episode BBC Documentaries
Six Degrees of Separation
2015
Episode The Joe Rogan Experience
Joe Rogan Experience #610 - Brian Cox
2015
Episode Conan (2010)
There, There, Don't Cry. Andy Just Went to Live on a Farm
2013
Episode Alan Carr: Chatty Man
Brian Cox, Paul Gascoigne, Fall Out Boy
2013
Episode Wonders of Life
Learning Zone Part 1
2013
Episode This Morning
January 31, 2013
2013
Episode This Week (2003)
05-07-2012
2012
Episode Wonders of the Universe
Wonders of the Universe - Learning Shorts
2011
Episode The Graham Norton Show
Episode 15
2011
Episode Newsnight
22-07-2010
2010
Episode TED Talks
Brian Cox: Why we need the explorers
2010
Episode Horizon
40 Years On The Moon
2009
Episode TED Talks
Brian Cox: What went wrong at the LHC
2009
Episode BBC Documentaries
The Big Bang Machine
2008
Episode Top Gear
Episode 4
2016
Episode TED Talks
Brian Cox on CERN's supercollider
2008
Episode BBC Documentaries
A Century of Scottish Sundays: 100 Years of the Sunday Post
2014