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Brian Foster is a British experimental particle physicist. He is Donald H. Perkins Professor of Experimental Physics Emeritus at the department of physics, University of Oxford, and Alexander von Humboldt Professor a. D. at the University of Hamburg. He was leading scientist at DESY where his research topics include new methods of acceleration, deep inelastic scattering using the ZEUS particle detector, and the International Linear Collider. He began his career on the 4,2m bubble chamber at CERN and then became a postdoctoral reseacher at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and Imperial College London, where he worked on the TASSO experiment at DESY. He was an author of the paper in which the discovery of the gluon was announced. He spent 20 years at Bristol University as successively Lecturer, Reader and then Professor of Experimental physics and head of the particle physics group. He was a member of the BaBar collaboration that discovered CP-violation in the B-quark system. He then became head of particle physics at Oxford University and a Fellow of Balliol College Oxford. In the last 20 years, Foster has worked predominantly in accelerator physics, particularly plasma acceleration. In 2004, he founded the John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science, a joint venture initially between Oxford University and Royal Holloway, University of London, subsequently joined by Imperial College London. He conceived the HALHF project, to design a much cheaper, greener form of Higgs Factory based on a hybrid of plasma- and conventional-based acceleration. His biography of Einstein, "Einstein - A Life in Science and Music" was published by Oxford University Press in February 2026.