Jon Butterworth

Jon Butterworth
Jon Butterworth
	Jon Butterworth speaking at Winchester Science Festival in 2013
Born	Jonathan Mark Butterworth; 1967 or 1968 (age 55–56)
Education	Wright Robinson High School; Shena Simon Sixth Form College;
Alma mater	University of Oxford (BA, DPhil)
Awards	Chadwick Medal and Prize (2013); Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2009);
	Scientific career
Fields	Particle physics
Institutions	University College London; DESY; Pennsylvania State University;
Thesis	Performance of the ZEUS second level tracking trigger and studies of R-parity violating supersymmetry at HERA (1992)
Doctoral advisor	Doug Gingrich; Herbi Dreiner;
Website	www.hep.ucl.ac.uk/~jmb/; iris.ucl.ac.uk/research/personal?upi=JMBUT84;

Jonathan Mark Butterworth is a Professor of Physics at University College London (UCL) working on the ATLAS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC). His popular science book Smashing Physics, which tells the story of the search for the Higgs boson, was published in 2014 and his newspaper column / blog Life and Physics is published by The Guardian.

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