Jon Butterworth

Jon Butterworth
Jon Butterworth speaking at Winchester Science Festival in 2013
Born
Jonathan Mark Butterworth

1967 or 1968 (age 57–58)
Education
Alma materUniversity of Oxford (BA, DPhil)
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsParticle physics
Institutions
ThesisPerformance of the ZEUS second level tracking trigger and studies of R-parity violating supersymmetry at HERA (1992)
Doctoral advisor
  • Doug Gingrich
  • Herbi Dreiner
Website

Jonathan Mark Butterworth is a professor of physics at University College London (UCL) working on the ATLAS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC). His popular science book Smashing Physics, which tells the story of the search for the Higgs boson, was published in 2014 and his newspaper column / blog Life and Physics is published by The Guardian.