Lyn Evans in his role as the LHC Project leader (2008)
Lyndon Rees Evans (born 1945) is a Welsh scientist who served as the project leader of theLarge Hadron Collider in Switzerland.[1] Based atCERN, in 2012 he became the director of the Linear Collider Collaboration, an international organisation managing development of next generation particle colliders, including theInternational Linear Collider and theCompact Linear Collider.[2]
Born and raised inCwmbach nearAberdare in theSouth Wales Valleys, Evans had an interest inchemistry in his youth, initially enrolling in university to study the subject before switching tophysics because he found the subject easier.[3] Evans was educated atAberdare Boys' Grammar School, where he developed an interest in physics. However, he found it difficult to pass hisO Level in French, a qualification which was required to allow him to enter his course at the University College of Swansea (nowSwansea University), from where he graduated in 1970.[4] He switched to physics in his second year of undergraduate study at Swansea.[3] He went to CERN initially as a research fellow, having previously visited the establishment in 1969 as a visitor.[3]
In 1994,[5] he became involved in the planning of the project which would become the Large Hadron Collider. He served as the LHC project leader until 2008.[6] In 2011 at the international symposium on subnuclear physics held in Vatican City, he gave a talkThe Proton Beam for the Neutrino Velocity Measurement with OPERA.[7]
In June 2012, the International Committee for Future Accelerators selected Evans as Director of the Linear Collider Collaboration, an international effort promoting construction of a new linear collider to complement CERN's Large Hadron Collider.[2]
On 11 December 2012, he was awarded the 2012 SpecialFundamental Physics Prize. He was cited, "For his leadership role in the scientific endeavour that led to the discovery of the new Higgs-like particle by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at CERN's Large Hadron Collider".[13]
He received the 2013 Special Breakthrough Prize, "For his leadership role in the scientific endeavour that led to the discovery of the new Higgs-like particle by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at CERN's Large Hadron Collider".[15]
He received theIEEE Simon Ramo Medal in 2014, for exceptional achievement insystems engineering andsystems science, "For systems leadership of the Large Hadron Collider Project from conceptual design through completion of construction".[16]
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