Biography:Edmund Copeland
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| Born | Edmund J. Copeland |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Newcastle University |
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| Doctoral advisor | Paul Davies |
| Website | nottingham |
Edmund "Ed" J. Copeland (/ˈkoʊplənd/) is a theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and professor of physics working in the Faculty of Science at the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom .[1] Copeland won the 2013 Rayleigh Medal and Prize awarded by the Institute of Physics for his work on particle/string cosmology.[2] He obtained his PhD from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1985, with a thesis entitled "Quantum aspects of Kaluza-Klein cosmologies".[3]
Copeland is well known for his appearances on the physics-popularizing YouTube channel Sixty Symbols, as well as the mathematics-popularizing channel Numberphile.
References
- ↑ "Edmund Copeland". School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham. http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/physics/people/ed.copeland. Retrieved 21 February 2020.
- ↑ "2013 Rayleigh Medal and Prize". Institute of Physics. http://www.iop.org/about/awards/subject/rayleigh/medallists/page_60387.html. Retrieved 3 October 2014.
- ↑ Copeland, E. J. (1985). Quantum aspects of Kaluza-Klein cosmologies (Ph.D. thesis). University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
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