13 Facts About Bryan Webber

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Bryan Webber was a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge from 1973 to 2010, and Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge from 1999 to 2010.

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Bryan Webber has been awarded the Dirac Medal by the Institute of Physics, the Sakurai Prize by the American Physical Society and the High Energy and Particle Physics Prize by the European Physical Society.

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Bryan Webber was educated at Colston's School, a private school in Bristol.

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Bryan Webber studied at The Queen's College, Oxford and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1964.

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Bryan Webber then moved to California, United States, to undertake postgraduate research within the research group of Luis Walter Alvarez at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Bryan Webber completed his Doctor of Philosophy degree in experimental particle physics in 1969 with a thesis titled A test of the [Delta]S=[Delta]Q rule in leptonic decays of neutral K mesons.

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Bryan Webber began his academic career as a postdoctoral researcher at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, California.

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Bryan Webber then returned to England, where he joined the University of Cambridge as a research assistant.

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Bryan Webber was appointed Professor of Theoretical Physics in 1999.

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Bryan Webber retired in September 2010, and was appointed Professor Emeritus.

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Bryan Webber was elected a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1973.

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In 1987, Bryan Webber was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Physics.

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Bryan Webber received the award together with Torbjorn Sjostrand, who was a co-recipient of the Sakurai Prize.