Christopher Llewellyn Smith
Sir Christopher Hubert Llewellyn Smith (born November 19, 1942 ) is a British physicist.
Smith studied at Oxford University (New College), where he received his doctorate in theoretical physics in 1967. As a post-doctoral student he was briefly at the Lebedev Institute in Moscow, from 1968 to 1970 at CERN and two years at SLAC . From 1972 to 1974 he was in the Theoretical Studies Division of CERN and from 1973 to 1976 in the experiment committee for the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS). In 1974 he was back in Oxford, where he was a fellow of St. John's College , first lecturer and from 1980 reader .
Smith was Professor at Oxford from 1987 to 1998 and served on the Physics Faculty from 1987 to 1992. At the same time he remained connected to CERN and was a member of its Scientific Policy Committee from 1986 to 1993.
He was Director General of CERN from 1994 to 1998 . Under his direction, the Large Hadron Collider was approved in December 1994.
From 1999 to 2002 he was Provost and President of University College London .
He was Chairman of the Euratom Fusion Committee from 2004 to 2009 and was Chairman of the UK Fusion Program (UKAEA Culham Division) until 2009. From 2004 he was again visiting professor at Oxford and director of energy research. From 2007 to 2009 he was chairman of the international committee for the planned ITER fusion reactor.
In 2008 he became chairman of the SESAME Council (the particle accelerator project in Jordan).
In 1984 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society and in 1994 of the American Physical Society . Since 1989 he has been a member of the Academia Europaea . In 1999 he received the Glazebrook Medal . In 2001 he was knighted as a Knight Bachelor . Since 2000 he has been an honorary fellow at St. John's College, Oxford. In 2015 he received the Royal Medal of the Royal Society.
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| SURNAME | Smith, Christopher Llewellyn |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Smith, Christopher Hubert Llewellyn (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 19, 1942 |