Rutherford's Legacy: From the Nucleus to Superstrings
Wednesday 18 May
Lecture Theatre 8W 3.22
May 2011 marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of Rutherford's classic paper describing the famous scattering experiment he performed at the University of Manchester with Geiger and Marsden, and which revealed the existence of the nucleus. This might be considered the birth of particle physics and great strides have subsequently been made in understanding the deep structure of matter and the fundamental forces of the Universe. A new era of discovery is now anticipated at the massive experiments deep at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva. This lecture will look at how particle physics has developed following Rutherford's discovery and what developments we might expect in the future.
For more lectures, see the full Summer 2011 GULP programme.
Dr Glenn Patrick FInstP, FRAS
Dr Glenn Patrick is a particle physicist at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near to Oxford where he leads one of the groups studying the differences between matter and antimatter at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). He is also a leading member of the collaboration that built the UK component of the worldwide computing Grid, which analyses the huge amounts of data flowing from the LHC. Glenn is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and often gives public talks explaining the concepts of particle physics.