Lyn Evans
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| Born | Lyndon Evans 1945 (age 78–79) Aberdare, Wales |
| Nationality | Welsh |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Large Hadron Collider |
| Alma mater | Swansea University |
| Notable awards | Fundamental Physics Prize (2012) |
Lyn Evans (born Lyndon Evans in 1945), is a Welsh scientist, director of the Linear Collider collaboration at CERN.[1] He has also served as the project leader of Switzerland-based Large Hadron Collider in the past.
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Biography
Born and raised in Aberdare in the South Wales Valleys, he had a youth interest in chemistry,[2] initially enrolling in university to study the subject before switching to physics because he found the subject easier.[3] Evans was educated at Aberdare Boys' Grammar School, where he developed an interest in physics. However, he found it difficult to pass his O Level in French, a qualification which was required to allow him to enter his course at the University College of Swansea (now Swansea University), from where he graduated in 1970.[4] He switched to physics in his second year of undergraduate study at Swansea.[3] He was made an honorary fellow of the University of Wales Swansea in 2002.[5] He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Glamorgan (now University of South Wales) in July 2010. He went to CERN initially as a research fellow, having previous visited the establishment in 1969 as a visitor.[3]
In 1994,[6] he became involved in the planning of the project which would become the Large Hadron Collider, and in light of his leadership role in the LHC, Evans was redubbed by the press as "Evans the Atom".[2]
Awards
- On December 11, 2012, he was awarded the 2012 Special Fundamental Physics Prize.[7]
References
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