Nigel Lockyer

Nigel Lockyer ( born November 5, 1952 in Annan, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland) is an American experimental particle physicists.

Lockyer studied at York University in Toronto ( Downsview ), Canada ( BA 1975) and received his doctorate in 1980 at the Ohio State University. As a post-doc, he was until 1984 at SLAC, where he was speaker of the Mark II collaboration that investigated the bottom quark. From 1984 he was also an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania, from 1998 as a professor. He was also involved in the planning of experiments at the Superconducting Super Collider in 1993 set (1987 to 1993 he was one of the speakers of the BCD collaboration ( Bottom Collider Detector) ) and in 2002 co- spokesperson for the CDF collaboration at Fermilab, with the top quark was studied.

In 2007 he became director of the Canadian TRIUMF accelerator facility and is also a professor at the University of British Columbia. From 2005 he was the co - spokesperson for the Superconducting Module Test Facility ( SMTF ), an international collaboration of accelerator physicists, the new techniques for superconducting accelerator (SRF techniques for superconducting radio frequency) developed.

In addition to work in particle physics, he was also involved in the application of particle accelerators in medicine ( proton accelerator for cancer therapy, detectors ). In 2006 he was awarded the Panofsky Prize.

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