Frank Close
Particle physicist and science writer
Frank Close is a particle physicist and Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford. He has also lectured and written to make science understandable for general readers.
1 summary 18 min of listening
British Born 1945 in Peterborough, United Kingdom
About Frank Close
Frank Close was born Francis Edwin Close in 1945. He is a Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. After Oxford he spent two years at Stanford University in California as a postdoctoral fellow. He joined the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in 1975 as a research physicist and headed its Theoretical Physics Division from 1991. Alongside his research, he has written books including Antimatter, Lucifer's Legacy and Eclipse.