Roy Billinge
Roy Billinge (born December 21, 1937 in Buxton ; † July 31, 1994 in Trelex , Switzerland ) was a British physicist who was involved in the construction of the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) at CERN and who led the construction of the Antiproton Accumulator.
Billinge studied physics at King's College London and was in the Rutherford Laboratory from 1959 , where he began working with particle accelerators. He played an important role in the construction of the 7 GeV NIMROD Proton Synchrotron, the first high-energy particle accelerator in Great Britain which was in operation from 1963 to 1978. In 1966 he was sent from the Rutherford Laboratory to CERN to work on the 300 GeV project that became the Proton Synchrotron PLC. From 1967 he worked for four years building the accelerator of the newly founded Fermilab under Robert R. Wilson . There he designed and constructed the 8 GeV booster (pre-accelerator). Then John Bertram Adams brought him to CERN as head of magnet design for the SPS, which was then under construction. From 1978 to 1980 he was in charge of the construction of the antiproton accumulator for the conversion of the SPS into a proton-antiproton collider based on the ideas of Carlo Rubbia . Simon van der Meer also played a key role in the development. He then headed the Proton Synchrotron department from 1982 to 1990 (the first proton accelerator at CERN, later the pre-accelerator for the SPS). In the early 1990s he was involved in setting up the international collaboration for the planning of the LHC . He also chaired the Machine Advisory Committee for the SSC in the US.
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- ↑ Biography in Andrew Sessler, Edmund Wilson, Engines of Creation, World Scientific 2007, p. 66
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| SURNAME | Billinge, Roy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 21, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Buxton (Derbyshire) |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 31, 1994 |
| Place of death | Trelex |