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	Llewellyn Smith received the James Clerk Maxwell Medal and Prize in 1979, and Glazebrook Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics in 1999 and was knighted in 2001. In 2004, he became Chairman of the Consultative Committee for Euratom on Fusion (CCE-FU). Until 2009 he was Director of UKAEA Culham Division, which holds the responsibility for the United Kingdom's fusion programme and operation of the Joint European Torus (JET). He is a member of the Advisory Council for the Campaign for Science and Engineering.<ref name="CaSE Advisory Council">{{cite web \|url=http://www.sciencecampaign.org.uk/about/who/advisory.htm \|title=Advisory Council of the Campaign for Science and Engineering \|accessdate=2011-02-11 \|url-status=dead \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100828110110/http://www.sciencecampaign.org.uk/about/who/advisory.htm \|archivedate=28 August 2010 \|df=dmy }}</ref>		Llewellyn Smith received the James Clerk Maxwell Medal and Prize in 1979, and Glazebrook Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics in 1999 and was knighted in 2001. In 2004, he became Chairman of the Consultative Committee for Euratom on Fusion (CCE-FU). Until 2009 he was Director of UKAEA Culham Division, which holds the responsibility for the United Kingdom's fusion programme and operation of the Joint European Torus (JET). He is a member of the Advisory Council for the Campaign for Science and Engineering.<ref name="CaSE Advisory Council">{{cite web \|url=http://www.sciencecampaign.org.uk/about/who/advisory.htm \|title=Advisory Council of the Campaign for Science and Engineering \|accessdate=2011-02-11 \|url-status=dead \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100828110110/http://www.sciencecampaign.org.uk/about/who/advisory.htm \|archivedate=28 August 2010 \|df=dmy }}</ref>
	In 2013, he joined the National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar, India as a Distinguished Professor.		In 2013, he joined the National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar, India as a Distinguished Professor.
	In 2015, he was awarded the Royal Medal of the Royal Society.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://royalsociety.org/awards/royal-medal/\|title=Royal Medal\|publisher=[[Royal Society]]\|accessdate=20 July 2015}}</ref>		In 2015, he was awarded the Royal Medal of the Royal Society.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://royalsociety.org/awards/royal-medal/\|title=Royal Medal\|publisher=Royal Society\|accessdate=20 July 2015}}</ref>

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{{short description|British particle physicist}}
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| name = Chris Llewellyn Smith
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| image = LLewellyn Smith as CERN DG.jpg
| caption = Llewellyn Smith in 1996
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| title = Provost of [[University College, London]]
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| thesis_title = Some problems in elementary particle physics
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| thesis_year = 1967
| workplaces = [[CERN]] [[University of Oxford]] [[University College London]] [[SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory]] [[Lebedev Physical Institute]] [[United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority |UKAEA]]
| awards = [[Richard Glazebrook Medal and Prize]] [[Royal Medal]]
| doctoral_advisor = [[Richard Dalitz]]<ref name="Oxford2024">{{cite web |title=Professor Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith - Profile |url=https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/our-people/llewellyn-smith |website=University of Oxford - Department of Physics |access-date=26 May 2024}}</ref>
| doctoral_students = [[John Wheater]] [[Ash Carter]]<ref>{{cite thesis |last=Carter |first=Ashton B. |date=1979 |title=Hard processes in perturbative QCD}}</ref> [[Ian Hinchliffe]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://academictree.org/physics/peopleinfo.php?pid=453631|title=Physics Tree - Christopher Hubert Llewellyn Smith|website=academictree.org}}</ref> [[Nikolas Mavromatos]]}}
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'''Sir Christopher Hubert Llewellyn Smith''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|FRS|HonFInstP}} (born 19 November 1942) is an [[Emeritus]] Professor of Physics at the [[University of Oxford]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.fusion.org.uk/cls/index.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080911002216/http://www.fusion.org.uk/cls/index.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 September 2008|title=Prof Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith FRS|date=11 September 2008}}</ref><ref>[https://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/contacts/people/llewellyn-smith Chris Llewellyn Smith home page], Department of Physics, Oxford</ref><ref>[http://www-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/people/ChrisLlewellynSmith/ Chris Llewellyn Smith home page], Theoretical Physics, Oxford</ref><ref>[https://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/profiles/llewellyn-smith/chris-lls-publications-42610.pdf Publications – C. H. Llewellyn Smith], Oxford, January 2018</ref><ref>[https://inspirehep.net/author/profile/C.H.Llewellyn.Smith.1 Scientific publications of Christopher Llewellyn Smith] on [[INSPIRE-HEP]]</ref>

==Education==
Llewellyn Smith was educated at the [[University of Oxford]] (BA) and completed his [[Doctor of Philosophy]] degree in [[theoretical physics]] at [[New College, Oxford]] in 1967.<ref name="cv">{{cite web| url=https://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/profiles/llewellyn-smith/full-cv-42313.pdf | title=Curriculum Vitae – Professor Sir Christopher Llewellyn Smith FRS | publisher=[[Department of Physics, University of Oxford]] | date=November 2017 | accessdate=12 April 2020 }}</ref>

==Career and research==
After his DPhil he worked at the [[Lebedev Physical Institute]] in [[Moscow]], [[CERN]] and then the [[SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory]] before returning to [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] in 1974. Llewellyn Smith was elected a Fellow of the [[Royal Society]] in 1984.<ref name="rs">{{cite web| url=https://royalsociety.org/people/christopher-llewellyn-smith-11827/ | title=Christopher Llewellyn Smith | publisher=[[Royal Society]] | accessdate=12 April 2020 }}</ref>

While Chairman of Oxford Physics (1987–92), he led the merger of five different departments into a single [[Department of Physics, University of Oxford|Physics Department]]. Llewellyn Smith was Director General of [[CERN]] from 1994 to 1998.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Inside story: Llewellyn Smith, world scientist|journal=CERN Courier|date=January 2013|url=http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/52044}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=Faces and places: Chris Llewellyn Smith|journal=CERN Courier|date=January 1999|url=http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/27949/1/people2_2-99|access-date=5 March 2015|archive-date=2 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402122105/http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/27949/1/people2_2-99|url-status=dead}}</ref> Thereafter he served as Provost and President of [[University College London]] (1999–2002).

===Awards and honours===
Llewellyn Smith received the [[James Clerk Maxwell Medal and Prize]] in 1979, and [[Glazebrook Medal and Prize]] of the [[Institute of Physics]] in 1999 and was [[Knight Bachelor|knighted]] in 2001. In 2004, he became Chairman of the Consultative Committee for Euratom on Fusion (CCE-FU). Until 2009 he was Director of [[United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority | UKAEA Culham Division]], which holds the responsibility for the United Kingdom's [[nuclear fusion|fusion]] programme and operation of the [[Joint European Torus]] (JET). He is a member of the Advisory Council for the [[Campaign for Science and Engineering]].<ref name="CaSE Advisory Council">{{cite web |url=http://www.sciencecampaign.org.uk/about/who/advisory.htm |title=Advisory Council of the Campaign for Science and Engineering |accessdate=2011-02-11 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100828110110/http://www.sciencecampaign.org.uk/about/who/advisory.htm |archivedate=28 August 2010 |df=dmy }}</ref>
In 2013, he joined the [[National Institute of Science Education and Research]] (NISER), Bhubaneswar, India as a Distinguished Professor.
In 2015, he was awarded the [[Royal Medal]] of the [[Royal Society]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/awards/royal-medal/|title=Royal Medal|publisher=[[Royal Society]]|accessdate=20 July 2015}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Llewellyn Smith married in 1966 and has one son and one daughter.<ref name="cv" />

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