Smashing Physics

Professor Butterworth will discuss how they do physics at the 'energy frontier' and what they have learned from it – including the discovery of the Higgs boson and what that means. He'll also look at what we still don't understand and what the next steps might be.

Professor Jon Butterworth

Professor Jonathan Butterworth is Professor of Physics at UCL and works on the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider in Geneva. He's originally from Manchester and has previously worked at Oxford, Penn State and Hamburg. He writes the "Life and Physics" blog for the Guardian and has written a book on the Higgs discovery called "Smashing Physics" published by Headline.