Frank Close

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Frank Close OBE is currently Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He is well respected for increasing public understanding of science, as well as for his academic work.

His Royal Institution Christmas Lectures in 1993, entitled The Cosmic Onion, gave their name to one of his books. From 2000 to 2003 he gave public lectures as professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London.

He took his undergraduate degree at St Andrews University, before reading for a DPhil in theoretical physics at Magdalen College, Oxford. From Oxford he went to Stanford University for two years as a postdoctoral fellow and then to CERN. He joined the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in 1975 as a research physicist and was latterly Head of Theoretical Physics Division. He headed the communication and public education activities at CERN from 1997 to 2000.

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Close, F. E. (1979). An Introduction to Quarks and Partons. London: Academic Press. ISBN 0-12-175150-3.
Close, Frank (1983). The Cosmic Onion: Quarks and the Nature of the Universe. London: Heinemann Educational. ISBN 0-435-69170-8.
- rev. ed. (2006) The New Cosmic Onion: Quarks and the Nature of the Universe. London: Taylor & Francis. ISBN 1-58488-798-2.
Close, Frank, Michael Marten, and Christine Sutton (1987). The Particle Explosion. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-851965-6.
- rev. ed. (2002) The Particle Odyssey: A Journey to the Heart of the Matter. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-850486-1.
Close, Frank (1988). End: Cosmic Catastrophe and the Fate of the Universe. London: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-671-65461-6. (Published in the U.S. as Apocalypse When?)
Close, Frank (1990). Too Hot to Handle: The Story of the Race for Cold Fusion. London: W. H. Allen. ISBN 1-85227-206-6.
Close, Frank (2000). Lucifer's Legacy: The Meaning of Asymmetry. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-850380-6.
Close, Frank (2004). Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-280434-0.