Lyn Evans

This article is about the physicist Lyn Evans. For the politician, see Lynden Evans .

Lyn Evans, in the background the LHC

Lyndon Rees "Lyn" Evans (* 1945 in Aberdare , Wales ) is a British (Welsh) physicist who studies the physics of particle accelerators.

Evans received his doctorate in 1970 from the University College of Swansea (where he received his bachelor's degree in 1966) on the production of plasmas with lasers, for which he built a powerful carbon dioxide laser. He then went to CERN as a scientist in 1970 , where he first examined the dynamics of particle beams at a linear accelerator and was involved in the SPS (Super Proton Synchrotron) from 1971. He made a significant contribution to the development of the SPS by eliminating an instability and played an important role in the transformation of the SPS into a storage ring and then into a proton-antiproton collider (he was involved in the project from 1978 to 1984). In the mid-1980s he advised on the development of the Tevatron and from the late 1980s he was involved in the LEP . He was Deputy Division Leader of the SPS department at CERN in 1988/89 and from 1990 to 1993 he was the head of the SL department, which comprised SPS and LEP. In 1993/94 he was Deputy Director (Associate Director) for future accelerator projects.

In 1994 he became project manager of the LHC at CERN.

In 2001 he became Commander of the British Empire . In 2002 he became an Honorary Fellow at the University of Wales in Swansea. In 2008 he was Newsmaker of the Year of the magazine Nature . In 2008 he received the Robert R. Wilson Prize . In 2013 he received the Special Fundamental Physics Prize and the Glazebrook Medal .

literature

• Andrew Sessler, Edmund Wilson Engines of discovery , World Scientific 2007

Web links

Commons : Lyn Evans  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Laudation for the Wilson Prize