The Ninth Douglas Adams Memorial Lecture

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In advance of the lecture, the lovely people at the Pod Delusion (http://poddelusion.co.uk) created a Douglas Adams Tribute episode, featuring many famous names and friends of Save the Rhino. Listen by clicking below:





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And you can hear an interview with Brian and Robin at the event at the end of this podcast:







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Professor Brian Cox OBE

On the 10th March, Prof Brian Cox gave the Ninth Douglas Adams Memorial Lecture, with Robin Ince and Dave Stirling as MC. Brian engaged us with a lecture about the universe, the Large Hadron Collider and his passion for Douglas Adams.

Since 2003, Save the Rhino has held an annual Douglas Adams Memorial Lecture around the time of his birthday to raise money for rhino conservation projects, as well as tackling environmental crime and the trade in wildlife parts. The lectures are in aid of both Save the Rhino International and the Environmental Investigation Agency, two charities supported by Douglas Adams. Douglas developed his deep-seated interest in wildlife conservation during a 1985 visit to Madagascar, which eventually resulted in a book (Last Chance to See) about the plight of species facing extinction. Douglas Adams died unexpectedly in 2001 at the age of 49. These Memorial Lectures continue to explore the themes in which Douglas was so interested.

Professor Brian Cox began his career not as a physicist but as a rock star, most notably as part of the band D’Ream, whose song ‘Things Can Only Get Better’ was famously used by Tony Blair as the Labour Party election song in 1997. During the D’Ream years, Brian obtained a first class honours degree in physics from the University of Manchester and a PhD in High Energy Particle Physics at the DESY laboratory in Hamburg. 

In 2010, Brian received an OBE for his services to Science. Brian was granted a Royal Society University Research Fellowship in 2005 and in 2009 became Professor of Particle Physics at the University of Manchester. He works at the CERN laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider.

Brian also writes for various publications including New Statesman, The Telegraph, Sun and Times. His book ‘Why Does E=mc2?’ (Da Capo USA and Perseus UK) was published in 2009. Brian’s ability to present science in an engaging manner makes him a popular television presenter & radio broadcaster. His credits include the recent series, Wonders of the Universe (BBC2, 2011).