Nigel Glover | |
Birth Date: | 1961 6, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Sunderland, England, UK |
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Thesis Title: | Studies of high energy pp collisions |
Thesis Url: | http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/7113/1/7113_4295.PDF?UkUDh:CyT |
Doctoral Advisor: | Alan Martin  |
Awards: | Rayleigh Medal and Prize (2017) |
Edward William Nigel Glover (born 20 June 1961) is a British particle physicist. He is a professor of physics at the University of Durham. He graduated from Downing College, Cambridge, with a first in Natural Sciences, and went on to complete a doctorate at Hatfield College, Durham.[1]
Glover conducts research on the phenomenology of particle physics. His calculations based on quantum chromodynamics — the theory of the strong nuclear force — are relevant to measurements made at the Large Hadron Collider.[2]
Glover was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2013. His citation reads:
Glover is married to Belgian mathematical physicist Anne Taormina.