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Roger John Cashmore CMG FRSA (born 22 August 1944) is the chair of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. Previously he was principal of Brasenose College, Oxford, and professor of experimental physics at the University of Oxford. His interests include the origin of the masses of particles and the Higgs boson.
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Education
Cashmore was educated at Dudley Boys Grammar School, St John's College, Cambridge (BA 1965, MA), Balliol College, Oxford, and University College, Oxford (DPhil 1969, Weir Junior Research Fellow, 1851 Research Fellow). His doctoral thesis was entitled A study of inelastic pion-proton interactions in the range 600–800 MeV/c.
Academic career
He was a research associate at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center 1969–74. Returning to Oxford he was a research officer (1974–78), teaching lecturer at Christ Church (1976–78), senior research fellow at Merton (1977–79), and fellow and tutor at Balliol and university lecturer in physics (1979–90). He was appointed reader in experimental physics in 1990 and professor of experimental physics in 1991. He was also head of particle and nuclear physics 1991–96 and chair of the Department of Physics 1997–99. He was appointed principal of Brasenose from 2002 onwards. Cashmore also served as director of research and deputy director general at Organisation européenne pour la recherche nucléaire (CERN) from 1999 to 2004. During his term, several agreements took place with China's and Pakistan's to be of the most important. In 2002 he became co-chairman of the CERN-JINR joint scientific committee after Jim Allaby's retirement.
He was visiting professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 1982, Science and Engineering Research Council Senior Research Fellow 1982–87, a guest scientist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory 1986–87, and held an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Award 1995/96.
HM The Queen appointed Roger Cashmore Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George for services to international co-operation in particle physics in the New Year Honours List 2004. He was awarded the C.V. Boys Prize in 1983. He was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Physics in 1985, a member of Academia Europa in 1992, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1996, and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1998. He is a member of the advisory council for the Campaign for Science and Engineering.
Doctoral theses supervised or advised
- Mark Lancaster, The design of a first level tracking trigger for the ZEUS experiment & studies for low-x physics in electron-proton collisions at HERA (University of Oxford DPhil, 1992)
- Ian Richard Tomalin, Strange baryon production in e+e- annihilation (University of Oxford DPhil, 1988)
- David John Mellor, A measurement of bottom hadron lifetimes in e+e- annihilations (University of Oxford DPhil, 1986)
- Peter E.L. Clarke, A study of tau leptons in electron-positron annihilations at high energies (University of Oxford DPhil, 1985)
Sources and further information
- University of Oxford Annual Review 2002/03
- University of Oxford Annual Review 2003/04
- Roger Cashmore's personal website
- Debrett's People of Today (12th edn, London: Debrett's Peerage, 1999), p. 332
- Scientific publications of Roger Cashmore on INSPIRE-HEP
