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PROFESSOR BRIAN COX CBE FRS is Professor of Particle Physics at the University of Manchester and the Royal Society Professor for Public Engagement in Science. He has worked on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Geneva, the HERA accelerator at DESY, Hamburg and the Tevatron accelerator at Fermilab, Chicago. Cox has written and presented numerous TV series for the BBC, including Wonders of the Solar System, Wonders of the Universe, Wonders of Life, Human Universe, Forces of Nature, The Planets and The Universe. He is also the co-presenter of The Infinite Monkey Cage radio series and podcast. Cox has written numerous bestselling science titles with Jeff Forshaw. For many years, he has lectured the introductory Relativity and Quantum Mechanics course at the University of Manchester, with Jeff Forshaw.
<p><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">‘So staggering you go “whoa!” every few seconds’ Guardian</span><br style="outline: 0px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><br style="outline: 0px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">‘Really impressive’ Eamonn Holmes, ITV This Morning</span><br style="outline: 0px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><br style="outline: 0px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">A companion book to the critically acclaimed BBC series.</span><br style="outline: 0px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">The bestselling authors of Wonders of the Universe are back with another blockbuster, a groundbreaking exploration of our Solar System as it has never been seen before.</span><br style="outline: 0px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><br style="outline: 0px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">Mercury, a lifeless victim of the Sun’s expanding power. Venus, once thought to be lush and fertile, now known to be trapped within a toxic and boiling atmosphere. Mars, the red planet, doomed by the loss of its atmosphere. Jupiter, twice the size of all the other planets combined, but insubstantial. Saturn, a stunning celestial beauty, the jewel of our Solar System. Uranus, the sideways planet and the first ice giant. Neptune, dark, cold and whipped by supersonic winds. Pluto, the dwarf planet, a frozen rock.</span><br style="outline: 0px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">Andrew Cohen and Professor Brian Cox take readers on a voyage of discovery, from the fiery heart of our Solar System, to its mysterious outer reaches. They touch on the latest discoveries that have expanded our knowledge of the planets, their moons and how they come to be, alongside recent stunning and mind-boggling NASA photography.</span><br></p>
