University of Glasgow Higgs-hunter receives prestigious award
Published: 27 March 2013
A University of Glasgow physicist who has played a key role in the search for the Higgs boson has been presented with a major award for his research.
A University of Glasgow physicist who has played a key role in the search for the Higgs boson has been presented with a major award for his research.
Dr Aidan Robson, of the School of Physics and Astronomy, has been awarded the Makdougall Brisbane medal by the Royal Society of Edinburgh for his contributions to particle physics research and efforts to expand public understanding of the subject.
The Makdougall Brisbane medal was founded in 1855 by the Society’s fourth president Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane and is presented to early-career researchers who have made particularly distinguished contributions to their field.
Dr Robson joined the University in 2004. His areas of research include precision measurements in quantum chromodynamics, electroweak symmetry breaking, and searching for new physics using advanced analysis techniques.
He is part of the CDF and ATLAS particle collider detector experiments at Fermilab in the United States and CERN in Geneva. The ATLAS experiment is one of the two experiments that have recently discovered a Higgs boson.
Dr Robson said: “It’s a tremendous honour to be awarded the Makdougall Brisbane medal and I am proud to have received this recognition from the Royal Society of Edinburgh.”
First published: 27 March 2013
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