Frank Close OBE is currently Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He is well respected for increasing public understanding of science, as well as for his academic work. Commanders Badge of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions; in decreasing order of seniority, these are... College name Exeter College Collegium Exoniense Named after Walter de Stapledon, Bishop of Exeter Established 1314 Sister College Emmanuel College Rector Ms Frances Cairncross JCR President Octave Oppetit Undergraduates 299 MCR President Maria Sciara Graduates 150 Homepage Boatclub Exeter College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of...

His Royal Institution Christmas Lectures in 1993, entitled The Cosmic Onion, gave their name to one of his books. From 2000 to 2003 he gave public lectures as professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London. Michael Faraday delivering a Christmas Lecture in 1856. ... Gresham College is an unusual institution of higher learning in London which enrolls no students and grants no degrees. ...

He took his undergraduate degree at St Andrews University, before reading for a DPhil in theoretical physics at Magdalen College, Oxford. From Oxford he went to Stanford University for two years as a postdoctoral fellow and then to CERN. He joined the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in 1975 as a research physicist and was latterly Head of Theoretical Physics Division. He headed the communication and public education activities at CERN from 1997 to 2000. University of St Andrews The University of St Andrews was founded between 1410-1413 and is the oldest university in Scotland and the third oldest in the United Kingdom. ... Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. ... College name Magdalen College Collegium Beatae Mariae Magdalenae Named after Mary Magdalene Established 1458 Sister College Magdalene College President Professor David Clary FRS JCR President Iain Anstess Undergraduates 395 MCR President Kader Allouni Graduates 230 Homepage Boatclub Magdalen College (pronounced ) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of... Stanford redirects here. ... CERN logo The Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire (English: European Organization for Nuclear Research), commonly known as CERN, pronounced (or in French), is the worlds largest particle physics laboratory, situated just west of Geneva on the border between France and Switzerland. ... Aerial view of Rutherford Appleton Lab. ...

Works

• The Cosmic Onion
• Lucifer's Legacy
• Introduction to Quarks and Partons
• The Particle Explosion (With Michael Marten and Christine Sutton)
• The Particle Odyssey (With Michael Marten and Christine Sutton)
• Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction

See also

• Gresham Professor of Astronomy