The Planets

'So staggering you go "whoa!" every few seconds' Guardian
'Really impressive' Eamonn Holmes, ITV This Morning

About the author

Professor Brian Cox, OBE is a particle physicist, a Royal Society research fellow, and a professor at the University of Manchester as well as researcher on one of the most ambitious experiments on Earth, the ATLAS experiment on the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. He is best known to the public as a science broadcaster and presenter of the highly popular BBC2 series Wonders of the Solar System. He was also the keyboard player in the UK pop band D:Ream in the 1990s.

Summary

‘So staggering you go “whoa!” every few seconds’ Guardian ‘Really impressive’ Eamonn Holmes, ITV This Morning A companion book to the critically acclaimed BBC series.

Foreword

A Sunday Times Bestseller

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Praise for The Planets:
'So staggering you go whoa!' every few seconds ... Cox is the Attenborough of the Solar System' Guardian
'Spectacular. [Cox's] ability to convey maximum information in a clear and minimalist style is so softly winning and persuasive' The Sunday Times
'Professor Brian Cox continues to boggle our minds' Daily Mail
'It was life affirming, it was perspective shifting. It was beautifully made' Fearne Cotton, The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show, Radio 2
'Amazing work' Emma Barnett, Adrian Chiles, Radio 5 Live
'Starry-eyed Brian Cox is the only man for this job' The Times
'Wow' Evening Standard
'The professor makes us marvel at life on Earth' iNews
'Excellent ... a blend of enjoyable, accessible science and dreamlike wonder' The Times
'Brian Cox breathes life into science again ... breath-taking' Guardian
'Fascinating ... Good science' Observer
'Extraordinary - at its best magically fascinating and full of vast, weird drama' Radio Times

Product details

• Authors: Andre Cohen, Andrew Cohen, Cohen Andrew, Brian Cox, Brian (Prof. Cox, Brian (Prof.) Cox, Professor Brian Cox
• Publisher: William Collins
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9780008280574
• ISBN: 978-0-00-828057-4
• No. of pages: 301
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); SCIENCE / Physics / Astrophysics, Cosmology & the universe, Popular astronomy & space, Cosmology and the universe, Popular astronomy and space, Solar system: the Sun & planets, Solar system: the Sun and planets, SCIENCE / Space Science / Cosmology, SCIENCE / Space Science / Astronomy, The Planets