others. These interactions have fostered the international character of CERN and opened the pathways of scientific discourse all around the world. In 2014, Ellis delivered an address about his experiences at CERN at the second Starmus Festival in the Canary Islands. Ellis is a regular panellist at HowTheLightGetsIn, the music and philosophy festival hosted each year in Hay-on-Wye. References External links Oral history interview transcript with John Ellis on 6 May 2021, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives Ellis discusses the supercollider at CERN, and the physics discoveries that could come from it "The LHC is safe", talk given by John Ellis at CERN, in Geneva, on 14 August 2008 International Man of Mysteries, September 10, 2008 (Interview with John Ellis) Open Knowledge Conference plenary talk, on 17 September 2013 "Bang Goes the Big Bang" – Ellis debates the origins of the universe with Roger Penrose and Laura Mersini-Houghton Scientific publications of John Ellis on INSPIRE-HEP 1946 births Living people English physicists 20th-century British physicists 21st-century British physicists People associated with CERN People educated at Highgate School Alumni of King's College, Cambridge Academics of King's College London Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Fellows of the Royal Society Foreign Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy Maxwell Medal and Prize recipients Theoretical physicists Fellows of King's College London