The usual picture of a scientist for all of us is a person who has a long white hair, with beards of the same shade and wearing thick eyeglasses. But do you know that there will always be an exception in every general rule? Yes, you read it right! Brian Cox is a physicist and a genius of his generation but is quite a different image of a typical scientist. He does not actually wear medical lab coat at all times. Probably, he just uses it while inside the laboratory room, having those experiments running through his hands.

But, I am sure you are a little familiar with his name. It is because he used to be a musician and not a scientist. It’s just that he pursued Science as well as Doctoral in Philosophy in High Energy Particle Physics only at the verge of his being a rock star. Being a musician, he actually has the UK Chart topped. That makes him stand out from the rest of the nerd- looking scientists out there. He is even called by some as a professor who seems to be so nerd yet even cooler than you. If he wears a coat, that would be coat and tie in order to push respect on the part of the ones to whom he deals with. Yes, he is a rock star but he is a professional physicist as well.

Unlike any other people in medical lab coat, Cox teaches as well in a prestigious University of Manchester, where he handles Particle Physics. He has a lot of contributions in the field of science and if you are going to look at him, he would appear to be a typical boy next door, a rocker and a campus crush in the school where he teaches. But would you believe if I will tell you that he is a science communicator with the BBC? Yes, with the British Broadcasting Corporation! For the information of everybody, he is also holding the same post in European Organization for Nuclear Research, which is considered to be the world’s largest Particle Physics centre. He also authored books about correcting some inconsistencies regarding relativity. Indeed, Professor Brian Cox is a young and cool scientist.

You know friends, before I thought that all scientists are eccentric-looking, with all the test tubes in their front, with a smoky effect. Such a funny imagination! It is because Brian Cox made me shift from that previous perception as regards the people in their respective medical coat to a more liberal and open-minded one. I am expecting that as times passes by, more and more Brian Cox-style will sprout and invade the scientific field. For sure, it will be fun and exciting!