We've lowered the bar so more physics stories get into the news. "The key thing is you have to be genuinely excited about your project. "My talk went for more than Lady Gaga's boots. "Someone else at the school was Lady Gaga's designer and they brought along a pair of her boots," he tells Julie Gould. The auction "lot" was part of a fundraising effort for his children's primary school in north London. Jon Butterworth developed a taste for public engagement after repeated media appearances related to his work on the ATLAS experiment, one of two Large Hadron Collider detectors at CERN, Europe’s particle-physics lab.īutterworth, a physics professor at University College London, describes life at CERN, and how it felt to be one of 5154 authors listed in the 2015 paper that produced the most precise estimate yet of the mass of the Higgs boson.Īs part of his public engagement activities, Butterworth was persuaded to auction an after-dinner lecture or school talk about the Higgs.
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