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{{short description|Welsh physicist}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name              = Lyn Evans
| image            = File:Lyn Evans - pictures donated by CERN-1 (cropped).jpg
| caption          = Evans in 2012
|birth_name        = Lyndon Rees Evans
| birth_date        = {{Birth year and age|1945}}
| birth_place      = [[Aberdare]], Wales
| residence        =
| alma_mater        = [[Swansea University]]
| field            = [[Physics]]
| work_institutions = [[CERN]], [[Large Hadron Collider]];<br>Linear Collider Collaboration
| prizes            = [[Fundamental Physics Prize]] (2012)
}}
[[File:Lyn Evans - pictures donated by CERN-11.jpg|thumb|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 the [[Large Hadron Collider]] in Switzerland.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Krause |first=Michael |url=https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/10.1142/9789814623476_0006 |title=CERN: How We Found the Higgs Boson |date=2014 |publisher=WORLD SCIENTIFIC |isbn=978-981-4623-55-1 |language=en |chapter=The Man Who Built the LHC: Lyn Evans |pages=98–107 |doi=10.1142/9789814623476_0006}}</ref> Based at [[CERN]], in 2012 he became the director of the Linear Collider Collaboration, an international organisation managing development of next generation particle colliders, including the [[International Linear Collider]] and the [[Compact Linear Collider]].<ref name=":0">{{cite journal|date=July 2012|title=Lyn Evans becomes Linear Collider director|url=https://cds.cern.ch/record/1734828|journal=CERN Courier|volume=52|issue=6|page=37}}</ref>
'''Lyndon Rees Evans''' (born 1945) is a Welsh scientist who served as the project leader of the [[Large Hadron Collider]] in Switzerland.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Krause |first=Michael |url=https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/10.1142/9789814623476_0006 |title=CERN: How We Found the Higgs Boson |date=2014 |publisher=WORLD SCIENTIFIC |isbn=978-981-4623-55-1 |language=en |chapter=The Man Who Built the LHC: Lyn Evans |pages=98–107 |doi=10.1142/9789814623476_0006}}</ref> Based at [[CERN]], in 2012 he became the director of the Linear Collider Collaboration, an international organisation managing development of next generation particle colliders, including the [[International Linear Collider]] and the [[Compact Linear Collider]].<ref name=":0">{{cite journal|date=July 2012|title=Lyn Evans becomes Linear Collider director|url=https://cds.cern.ch/record/1734828|journal=CERN Courier|volume=52|issue=6|page=37}}</ref>


==Biography==
==Biography==
Born and raised in [[Cwmbach]] near [[Aberdare]] in the [[South Wales Valleys]], Evans had an interest in [[chemistry]] in his youth, initially enrolling in university to study the subject before switching to [[physics]] because he found the subject easier.<ref name="Scientist in charge of collider">{{cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/7806444.stm|title=Scientist in charge of collider|work=BBC Wales|access-date=26 July 2009 | date=2 January 2009}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/scifiles/interviewsub/liveevans.shtml|title=Lyn Evans|work=BBC Scifiles|access-date=5 December 2008}}</ref> He switched to physics in his second year of undergraduate study at Swansea.<ref name="Scientist in charge of collider"/> He went to CERN initially as a research fellow, having previously visited the establishment in 1969 as a visitor.<ref name="Scientist in charge of collider"/>
Born and raised in Cwmbach near Aberdare in the South Wales Valleys, Evans had an interest in chemistry in his youth, initially enrolling in university to study the subject before switching to physics because he found the subject easier.<ref name="Scientist in charge of collider">{{cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/7806444.stm|title=Scientist in charge of collider|work=BBC Wales|access-date=26 July 2009 | date=2 January 2009}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/scifiles/interviewsub/liveevans.shtml|title=Lyn Evans|work=BBC Scifiles|access-date=5 December 2008}}</ref> He switched to physics in his second year of undergraduate study at Swansea.<ref name="Scientist in charge of collider"/> He went to CERN initially as a research fellow, having previously visited the establishment in 1969 as a visitor.<ref name="Scientist in charge of collider"/>


In 1994,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article4719786.ece|title=Welsh engineer leads the way in Large Hadron Collider project|work=The Times|date=10 September 2008|access-date=5 December 2008 | location=London | first=Mark | last=Henderson}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.southwales-eveningpost.co.uk/aberdare-born-physicist-who-built-the-large-hadron-collider-to-speak-at-swansea-festival/story-29457938-detail/story.html|title=Physicist who built Large Hadron Collider talks at city festival|date=29 June 2016|newspaper=South Wales Evening Post|access-date=18 December 2016}}</ref> In 2011 at the international symposium on subnuclear physics held in Vatican City, he gave a talk ''The Proton Beam for the Neutrino Velocity Measurement with OPERA''.<ref>{{cite book|editor=Sánchez Sorondo, Marcelo|editor-link=Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo|editor2=Zichichi, Antonino|editor-link2=Antonino Zichichi|chapter=''The Proton Beam for the Neutrino Velocity Measurement with OPERA'' by Lyndon Evans|pages=337–342|title=Subnuclear Physics: Past, Present and Future; Proceedings of the International Symposium, held 30 October - 2 November 2011, held in Vatican City|series=Scripta Varia, volume 119|publisher=[[Pontifical Academy of Sciences]]|year=2014|chapter-url=https://www.pas.va/content/dam/casinapioiv/pas/pdf-volumi/scripta-varia/sv119/sv119-evans.pdf}}</ref>
In 1994,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article4719786.ece|title=Welsh engineer leads the way in Large Hadron Collider project|work=The Times|date=10 September 2008|access-date=5 December 2008 | location=London | first=Mark | last=Henderson}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.southwales-eveningpost.co.uk/aberdare-born-physicist-who-built-the-large-hadron-collider-to-speak-at-swansea-festival/story-29457938-detail/story.html|title=Physicist who built Large Hadron Collider talks at city festival|date=29 June 2016|newspaper=South Wales Evening Post|access-date=18 December 2016}}</ref> In 2011 at the international symposium on subnuclear physics held in Vatican City, he gave a talk ''The Proton Beam for the Neutrino Velocity Measurement with OPERA''.<ref>{{cite book |title=Subnuclear Physics: Past, Present and Future; Proceedings of the International Symposium, held 30 October - 2 November 2011, held in Vatican City |publisher=Pontifical Academy of Sciences |year=2014 |editor=Sánchez Sorondo, Marcelo |editor-link= |series=Scripta Varia, volume 119 |pages=337–342 |chapter=''The Proton Beam for the Neutrino Velocity Measurement with OPERA'' by Lyndon Evans |editor2=Zichichi, Antonino |editor-link2= |chapter-url=https://www.pas.va/content/dam/casinapioiv/pas/pdf-volumi/scripta-varia/sv119/sv119-evans.pdf}}</ref>


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.<ref name=":0" />
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.<ref name=":0" />
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==Awards and honours==
==Awards and honours==
*Evans has been a Fellow of the [[American Physical Society]] since 1991.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=&year=1991&unit_id=DPB&institution=CERN|title=APS Fellow Archive|website=aps.org|access-date=19 December 2016}}</ref>
*Evans has been a Fellow of the [[American Physical Society]] since 1991.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=&year=1991&unit_id=DPB&institution=CERN|title=APS Fellow Archive|website=aps.org|access-date=19 December 2016}}</ref>
*He was appointed CBE in the [[2001 New Year Honours]].
*He was appointed CBE in the 2001 New Year Honours.
*He was made an honorary fellow of the University of Wales Swansea in 2002.<ref>{{cite journal|date=November 2002|title=People|url=https://cds.cern.ch/record/1733402|journal=CERN Courier|volume=42|issue=9|page=45}}</ref>  
*He was made an honorary fellow of the University of Wales Swansea in 2002.<ref>{{cite journal|date=November 2002|title=People|url=https://cds.cern.ch/record/1733402|journal=CERN Courier|volume=42|issue=9|page=45}}</ref>  
*He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science from the [[University of Glamorgan]] (now [[University of South Wales]]) in July 2010.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://news.glam.ac.uk/news/en/2009/jul/14/honorary-doctorate-welsh-physicist/|title=Honorary Doctorate for Welsh Physicist, News Centre|website=news.glam.ac.uk|access-date=19 December 2016}}</ref>
*He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Glamorgan (now University of South Wales) in July 2010.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://news.glam.ac.uk/news/en/2009/jul/14/honorary-doctorate-welsh-physicist/|title=Honorary Doctorate for Welsh Physicist, News Centre|website=news.glam.ac.uk|access-date=19 December 2016}}</ref>
*In 2010, Evans was also elected a [[Fellow of the Royal Society]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/lyndon-evans-11413/|title=Lyndon Evans|website=royalsociety.org|access-date=19 December 2016}}</ref>
*In 2010, Evans was also elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/lyndon-evans-11413/|title=Lyndon Evans|website=royalsociety.org|access-date=19 December 2016}}</ref>
*In 2011, Evans was elected a [[Learned Society of Wales|Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wales |first=The Learned Society of |title=Lyn Evans |url=https://www.learnedsociety.wales/fellow/lyn-evans/ |access-date=2023-08-30 |website=The Learned Society of Wales |language=en-US}}</ref>
*In 2011, Evans was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wales |first=The Learned Society of |title=Lyn Evans |url=https://www.learnedsociety.wales/fellow/lyn-evans/ |access-date=2023-08-30 |website=The Learned Society of Wales |language=en-US}}</ref>
*On 11 December 2012, he was awarded the 2012 Special [[Fundamental 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".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://breakthroughprize.org/Laureates/L53|title=Breakthrough Prize, Laureate Lyn Evans|website=breakthroughprize.org|access-date=18 December 2016}}</ref>
*On 11 December 2012, he was awarded the 2012 Special Fundamental 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".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://breakthroughprize.org/Laureates/L53|title=Breakthrough Prize, Laureate Lyn Evans|website=breakthroughprize.org|access-date=18 December 2016}}</ref>
*The [[Institute of Physics]] awarded him the [[Richard Glazebrook Medal and Prize|Glazebrook Medal]] in 2013, citing him "for his leadership of the [[Large Hadron Collider]] Project".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.iop.org/about/awards/gold/glazebrook/medallists/page_60379.html|title=2013 Glazebrook Medal|last=Physics|first=Institute of|website=iop.org|access-date=18 December 2016}}</ref>
*The Institute of Physics awarded him the Glazebrook Medal in 2013, citing him "for his leadership of the [[Large Hadron Collider]] Project".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.iop.org/about/awards/gold/glazebrook/medallists/page_60379.html|title=2013 Glazebrook Medal|last=Physics|first=Institute of|website=iop.org|access-date=18 December 2016}}</ref>
*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".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://breakthroughprize.org/Laureates/1/L53|title=Breakthrough Prize|website=breakthroughprize.org|access-date=18 December 2016}}</ref>
*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".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://breakthroughprize.org/Laureates/1/L53|title=Breakthrough Prize|website=breakthroughprize.org|access-date=18 December 2016}}</ref>
*He received the [[IEEE Simon Ramo Medal]] in 2014, for exceptional achievement in [[systems engineering]] and [[systems science]], "For systems leadership of the Large Hadron Collider Project from conceptual design through completion of construction".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ieee.org/documents/ramo_rl.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100619214733/http://ieee.org/documents/ramo_rl.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=19 June 2010|title=IEEE Simon Ramo Medal Recipients|website=IEEE.org|access-date=8 December 2016}}</ref>
*He received the IEEE Simon Ramo Medal in 2014, for exceptional achievement in systems engineering and systems science, "For systems leadership of the Large Hadron Collider Project from conceptual design through completion of construction".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ieee.org/documents/ramo_rl.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100619214733/http://ieee.org/documents/ramo_rl.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=19 June 2010|title=IEEE Simon Ramo Medal Recipients|website=IEEE.org|access-date=8 December 2016}}</ref>
*He received the [[Rolf Wideroe Prize|Rolf Widerøe Prize]] in 2017<ref>{{Cite web|title=» Careers and people|url=http://live.iop-pp01.agh.sleek.net/2017/04/27/careers-and-people-29/|website=live.iop-pp01.agh.sleek.net|access-date=22 May 2020}}</ref>
*He received the Rolf Widerøe Prize in 2017<ref>{{Cite web|title=» Careers and people|url=http://live.iop-pp01.agh.sleek.net/2017/04/27/careers-and-people-29/|website=live.iop-pp01.agh.sleek.net|access-date=22 May 2020}}</ref>


For more information, see [[wikipedia:Lyn Evans|Wikipedia]].
==References==
==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
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* [https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2008/sep/10/cern Audio interview with Dr Evans] at ''The Guardian''
* [https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2008/sep/10/cern Audio interview with Dr Evans] at ''The Guardian''
* [https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/7806444.stm Video interview with Dr Evans] at [[BBC news online]]
* [https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/7806444.stm Video interview with Dr Evans] at BBC news online
* [https://inspirehep.net/author/profile/L.Evans.1 Scientific publications of Lyn Evans] on [[INSPIRE-HEP]]
* [https://inspirehep.net/author/profile/L.Evans.1 Scientific publications of Lyn Evans] on INSPIRE-HEP
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Lyndon Rees Evans (born 1945) is a Welsh scientist who served as the project leader of the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland.[1] Based at CERN, in 2012 he became the director of the Linear Collider Collaboration, an international organisation managing development of next generation particle colliders, including the International Linear Collider and the Compact Linear Collider.[2]

Biography

Born and raised in Cwmbach near Aberdare in the South Wales Valleys, Evans had an interest in chemistry in his youth, 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 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 talk The 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]

Awards and honours

  • Evans has been a Fellow of the American Physical Society since 1991.[8]
  • He was appointed CBE in the 2001 New Year Honours.
  • He was made an honorary fellow of the University of Wales Swansea in 2002.[9]
  • He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Glamorgan (now University of South Wales) in July 2010.[10]
  • In 2010, Evans was also elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.[11]
  • In 2011, Evans was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.[12]
  • On 11 December 2012, he was awarded the 2012 Special Fundamental 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]
  • The Institute of Physics awarded him the Glazebrook Medal in 2013, citing him "for his leadership of the Large Hadron Collider Project".[14]
  • 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 the IEEE Simon Ramo Medal in 2014, for exceptional achievement in systems engineering and systems science, "For systems leadership of the Large Hadron Collider Project from conceptual design through completion of construction".[16]
  • He received the Rolf Widerøe Prize in 2017[17]

For more information, see Wikipedia.

References

  1. ↑ Krause, Michael (2014). "The Man Who Built the LHC: Lyn Evans". CERN: How We Found the Higgs Boson. WORLD SCIENTIFIC. pp. 98–107. doi:10.1142/9789814623476_0006. ISBN 978-981-4623-55-1.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Lyn Evans becomes Linear Collider director" (July 2012). CERN Courier 52 (6). 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Scientist in charge of collider". BBC Wales. 2 January 2009. Retrieved 26 July 2009.
  4. ↑ "Lyn Evans". BBC Scifiles. Retrieved 5 December 2008.
  5. ↑ Henderson, Mark (10 September 2008). "Welsh engineer leads the way in Large Hadron Collider project". The Times. London. Retrieved 5 December 2008.[dead link]
  6. ↑ "Physicist who built Large Hadron Collider talks at city festival". South Wales Evening Post. 29 June 2016. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
  7. ↑ Sánchez Sorondo, Marcelo; Zichichi, Antonino, eds. (2014). "The Proton Beam for the Neutrino Velocity Measurement with OPERA by Lyndon Evans" (PDF). Subnuclear Physics: Past, Present and Future; Proceedings of the International Symposium, held 30 October - 2 November 2011, held in Vatican City. Scripta Varia, volume 119. Pontifical Academy of Sciences. pp. 337–342.
  8. ↑ "APS Fellow Archive". aps.org. Retrieved 19 December 2016.
  9. ↑ "People" (November 2002). CERN Courier 42 (9). 
  10. ↑ "Honorary Doctorate for Welsh Physicist, News Centre". news.glam.ac.uk. Retrieved 19 December 2016.
  11. ↑ "Lyndon Evans". royalsociety.org. Retrieved 19 December 2016.
  12. ↑ Wales, The Learned Society of. "Lyn Evans". The Learned Society of Wales. Retrieved 2023-08-30.
  13. ↑ "Breakthrough Prize, Laureate Lyn Evans". breakthroughprize.org. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
  14. ↑ Physics, Institute of. "2013 Glazebrook Medal". iop.org. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
  15. ↑ "Breakthrough Prize". breakthroughprize.org. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
  16. ↑ "IEEE Simon Ramo Medal Recipients" (PDF). IEEE.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 June 2010. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
  17. ↑ "» Careers and people". live.iop-pp01.agh.sleek.net. Retrieved 22 May 2020.
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