Professor Brian Cox
Jun 13, 2019
4 minutes
“At some point we will be the Martians. That’s clear to me, because we can’t stay here forever”
Astronomer Brian Cox needs little introduction: while studying for his physics masters at the University of Manchester in the mid-90s, he enjoyed some success as a keyboard player with the pop band D:Ream, before he quit the band to pursue his research at various particle accelerator facilities, including CERN.
Later, his enormously popular 2010 series Wonders of the Solar System and its two follow-ups, Wonders of the Universe and Wonders of Life, cemented his position as the face of UK science broadcasting.
What’s new about The Planets?
I think what’s been remarkable over the last decade or so is the amount
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