Professor Brian Cox - Emergence
About This Event
Professor Brian Cox, the English particle physicist and University of Manchester professor known for BBC broadcasting, popular science books and his work on the ATLAS experiment, brings his dual practice to NJPAC. On the program Professor Brian Cox – Emergence he blends spoken-word framing with Rock/Pop music, favoring clear exposition over theatrical showmanship to link scientific ideas and song.
About Emergence
At NJPAC, *Emergence* places physicist and broadcaster Professor Brian Cox onstage in a hybrid format: spoken reflection threaded through Rock/Pop performance. The show draws on his life between the University of Manchester and CERN’s ATLAS collaboration, using music as structure rather than ornament. In the New York area, it reads less like a lecture than a portrait of how scientific ideas circulate through popular culture and back again. Its sharpest move is refusing to separate expertise from entertainment, and letting the tension remain.
About the Artists
Professor Brian Cox
Professor Brian Cox, OBE is a particle physicist, a Royal Society research fellow, and a professor at the University of Manchester as well as researcher on one of the most ambitious experiments on Earth, the ATLAS experiment on the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland.
Brian Cox
Brian Cox is an English particle physicist who also works as a musician, moving between public science communication and Rock/Pop performance. He teaches physics at the University of Manchester and is known from BBC radio and television as well as popular science books that translate complex ideas for general audiences.