Michael Davis on "Belfast's Greatest Scientist?" (Part 1) |

Learn about the life and genius of Belfast's most famous physicist, John Stewart Bell (1928-1990). This school event will explore some of the legacy of the great CERN physicist and his relationship with the city. Bell, who hailed from modest roots in Belfast, paid his way through college (in the very building this event takes place in!), and eventually established himself at CERN where he worked on particle accelerators, and ultimately proved the great Albert Einstein wrong!
Learn about how he did it in this talk by Belfast-born CERN scientist Michael Davis, with contributions from prize-winning Belfast author Lucy Caldwell.
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Michael Davis is a computer scientist and software engineer working for CERN. He holds a BSc in Computer Science (from Brunel University, London), an MSc in Computer and Electronic Security and a PhD in Data Science (both conferred by Queen’s University, Belfast). In 2017, Michael joined the Storage and Data Management group in CERN’s IT department, where he now leads the team responsible for the long-term archival storage of the physics data. Michael’s greatest accomplishment is reading stories to his children every night. Now that they are all grown up, he is very happy to collaborate on creating a brand new story.
Filmed & Edited by Will McConnell on Monday 19 February 2024 as part of NI Science Festival. This event was supported by British Council Northern Ireland.