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| File:LLewellyn Smith as CERN DG.jpg Llewellyn Smith in 1996 | |
| Provost of University College, London | |
| In office 1999–2002 | |
| Preceded by | Derek Roberts |
| Succeeded by | Derek Roberts |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Christopher Hubert Llewellyn Smith 19 November 1942 |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford (BA, DPhil) |
| Profession | Physicist |
| Website | www2 |
| Scientific career | |
| Awards | Richard Glazebrook Medal and Prize Royal Medal |
| Institutions | CERN University of Oxford University College London SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Lebedev Physical Institute UKAEA |
| Thesis | Some problems in elementary particle physics (1967) |
| Doctoral advisor | Richard Dalitz[1] |
| Doctoral students | John Wheater Ash Carter[2] Ian Hinchliffe[3] Nikolas Mavromatos |
Sir Christopher Hubert Llewellyn Smith FRS HonFInstP (born 19 November 1942) is an Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford.[4][5][6][7][8]
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.[9]
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 Oxford in 1974. Llewellyn Smith was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1984.[10]
While Chairman of Oxford Physics (1987–92), he led the merger of five different departments into a single Physics Department. Llewellyn Smith was Director General of CERN from 1994 to 1998.[11][12] 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 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.[13] 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.[14]
Personal life
Llewellyn Smith married in 1966 and has one son and one daughter.[9]
References
- ↑ "Professor Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith - Profile". University of Oxford - Department of Physics. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
- ↑ Carter, Ashton B. (1979). Hard processes in perturbative QCD (Thesis).
- ↑ "Physics Tree - Christopher Hubert Llewellyn Smith". academictree.org.
- ↑ "Prof Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith FRS". 11 September 2008. Archived from the original on 11 September 2008.
- ↑ Chris Llewellyn Smith home page, Department of Physics, Oxford
- ↑ Chris Llewellyn Smith home page, Theoretical Physics, Oxford
- ↑ Publications – C. H. Llewellyn Smith, Oxford, January 2018
- ↑ Scientific publications of Christopher Llewellyn Smith on INSPIRE-HEP
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Curriculum Vitae – Professor Sir Christopher Llewellyn Smith FRS" (PDF). Department of Physics, University of Oxford. November 2017. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
- ↑ "Christopher Llewellyn Smith". Royal Society. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
- ↑ "Inside story: Llewellyn Smith, world scientist" (January 2013). CERN Courier.
- ↑ "Faces and places: Chris Llewellyn Smith" (January 1999). CERN Courier.
- ↑ "Advisory Council of the Campaign for Science and Engineering". Archived from the original on 28 August 2010. Retrieved 2011-02-11.
- ↑ "Royal Medal". Royal Society. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
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