Lyn Evans

Lyndon Rees " Lyn " Evans ( born 1945 in Aberdare, Wales ) is a British ( Welsh ) physicist who deals with the physics of particle accelerators.

Evans was in 1970 at the University College of Swansea ( where he took a bachelor's degree in 1966 ) doctoral thesis on the production of plasmas with lasers, for which he built a powerful carbon dioxide laser. Then he went in 1970 as scientists to CERN, where he first studied the dynamics of particle beams on a linear accelerator and from 1971 at the SPS (Super Proton Synchrotron ) was involved. He served in the structure of the PLC a significant contribution by eliminating instability and played an important role in the conversion of the SPS in a storage ring and then in a proton -antiproton collider ( he worked on the project from 1978 to 1984 ). Mid-1980s, he advised on the construction of the Tevatron and at the end of the 1980s he was involved in the LEP. He was at CERN 1988/89 Deputy Director ( Deputy Division Leader) involved the PLC department and from 1990 to 1993 the head of the department SL, the SPS and LEP. 1993/94 he was Deputy Head (Associate Director) for future accelerator projects ( Future Accelerators ).

In 1994 he was project manager of the LHC at CERN.

He was Commander of the British Empire in 2001. He was Honorary Fellow of the University of Wales in Swansea in 2002. In 2008 he was Newsmaker of the Year of the magazine Nature. In 2008 he received the Robert R. Wilson Prize. In 2013 he was awarded the Special Prize Fundamental Physics and the Glazebrook Medal.