Draft:Roger Barlow
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Comment: He is probably notable, but you need to cleanup several things:1.You need to provide sources for his career.2.A specific source for his founding of the Cockcroft is needed.3.You need to provide sources (independent reviews in detail) for his book.4.Include his awards, with sources. Ldm1954 (talk) 16:26, 8 March 2026 (UTC)
Roger John Barlow was a British particle physicist and co-founder of the Cockcroft Institute[1], working for the majority of his career at the University of Manchester and latterly at the University of Huddersfield.
During his career, he worked on a variety of particle physics experiments at DESY (including experiments concerned with the discovery of the gluon and measurement of the B lifetime), CERN (on OPAL doing precision studies of the Z particle), and notably at the BaBar experiment at SLAC which discovered CP violation in B mesons.
Prof. Barlow was the principal investigator of the project to construct the EMMA particle accelerator, the first demonstration of a so-called non-scaling FFAG. He authored a well-regarded textbook on undergraduate statistics[2], and was a proponent of accelerator-driven subcritical reactors through his founding of the ThorEA association. He also founded the Particle Physics Masterclass.
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[edit]- ↑ "Homepage - The Cockcroft Institute". The Cockcroft Institute - Accelerator Science and Technology. Retrieved 2026-03-08.
- ↑ Barlow, Roger (1999). Statistics: a guide to the use of statistical methods in the physical sciences. The Manchester physics series (5. repr ed.). Chichester: Wiley. ISBN 978-0-471-92295-7.
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