Physics teacher worked on ‘Big Bang’ project

Sep 12 2008 by Naomi Dunning, Chester Chronicle

Physics teacher worked on ‘Big Bang’ project

A CHESTER physics teacher watched Wednesday’s “Big Bang” experiment with more interest than most - because he worked on the project.

Dr Steve Bosworth has been teaching at King’s School in Chester for the past eight years. Before he became a teacher he completed a doctorate at Oxford University which looked into particle accelerators and collisions.

The £5bn Large Hadron Collider (LHC) machine in Geneva designed to collide particles to recreate the moments after the big bang was successfully launched at 8.33am on Wednesday.

In 1992 Dr Bosworth spent a year in Geneva working at CERN, and used a smaller version of the proton collider for experiments.

He said: “ It was a very exciting and interesting time and the experiments I undertook there created my doctorate paper.”

Dr Bosworth has been keeping his pupils well informed about what has been going on in Geneva, and regularly takes groups of his sixth form pupils to go and visit CERN.

“I have been taking pupils out there for the last eight years and they always have a good trip. They get to go underground and, and go in the machine usually. Unfortunately this year they will have to stay above ground due to the experiments going on below.”