Harry Cliff

Harry Cliff is a particle physicist based at the University of Cambridge and carries out research with the LHCb experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. He was a curator at the Science Museum, London for seven years and regularly gives public lectures and makes TV and radio appearances. His 2015 TED talk “Have We Reached the End of Physics?” has been viewed nearly 3 million times.

Flukes, Fakes and Statistical Uncertainties: What Happens When Physicists Fail

Harry Cliff on the Slippery Nature of Probability in the Pursuit of Scientific Discovery

March 26, 2024 By Harry Cliff

The 18th-Century Quaker Farmboy Who Laid the Groundwork for Atomic Theory

Harry Cliff on How John Dalton Contributed to the Most Powerful Idea in Science

August 10, 2021 By Harry Cliff

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