Stephen Myers

This article is about the scientist. For the tennis player of the same name, see Stephen Myers (tennis player) .

Stephen Myers

Stephen Myers OBE , also Steve Myers, (born August 3, 1946 ) is a British electrical engineer who deals with particle accelerators .

Myers studied electrical engineering at Queen's University Belfast and received his doctorate there in 1972. He then worked on particle accelerators at CERN . He was involved in the development of Intersecting Storage Rings (where, among other things, he found a solution for the annoying overlap knock-out resonances ), LEP (from 1979 under Wolfgang Schnell in the design team, later with the first computer simulations of beam power and as head of LEP 2 Project) and LHC involved in CERN. Together with Wolfgang Schnell, he proposed the LHC in the LEP tunnel in 1983 and was editor of the first LHC Design Report. In 2009 he became director of accelerators and technology and in 2014 head of the medical applications department. From 2010 to 2012 he ran the LHC (at which time the Higgs boson was discovered).

In 1991 he founded the Chamonix workshops for particle accelerator technology.

In 2003 he became a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and in 2012 of the Royal Academy of Engineering . In 2014 he became an honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy . He holds honorary doctorates from Geneva, Dublin City University and Queen's University Belfast , where he also holds an honorary professorship .

In 2003 he received the Duddell Medal (now Gabor Medal and Prize) of the Institute of Physics and in 2012 received the Edison Volta Prize . He is OBE (2013). He is a Fellow of the European Physical Society and an International Fellow of the American Physical Society .

literature

• Biographical entry in Sessler u. a., Engines of Creation , World Scientific 2007, p. 130

Web links

• Short biography at Tedx at CERN

Individual evidence

1. ^ Members: Stephen Myers. Royal Irish Academy, accessed May 10, 2019 . 
2. ^ Brief biography of Myers when he was appointed Executive Chairman of Adam at Advanced Oncotherapy, 2015