David George Charlton is Professor of Particle Physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Birmingham, UK.
10 Facts About David Charlton
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David Charlton went on to study for a PhD in Particle Physics at the University of Birmingham, which he was awarded in 1989 for work on the UA1 experiment, searching for the top quark.
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David Charlton's research investigates the Higgs mechanism and electroweak symmetry breaking.
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David Charlton is regarded as a leader in the experimental elucidation of electroweak symmetry-breaking, culminating in the observation and first characterisation of a Higgs boson, at the Large Hadron Collider.
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David Charlton's research has been funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council.
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David Charlton's work helped to provide the first measurement there of the yield of Z decays, before measurement of the fraction decaying to bottom quarks.
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David Charlton's lecturing was in abeyance whilst he held the position of Spokesperson at ATLAS.
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David Charlton was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2014.
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In 2017, David Charlton was awarded the Richard Glazebrook Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics for his leadership in experimental particle physics.
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David Charlton was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship in 1994.