John Adams (physicist)

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Sir
John Adams
KBE FRS
John Adams, CERN
Adams in 1973
Born(1920-05-24)24 May 1920
Kingston, Surrey, England
Died3 March 1984(1984-03-03) (aged 63)
Geneva, Switzerland
Other namesSir John Bertram Adams
OccupationsPhysicist and former CERN Director-General
SpouseRenie Warburton
Children2

Sir John Bertram Adams KBE FRS[1] (24 May 1920 – 3 March 1984)[2] was an English accelerator physicist and administrator.

Adams is mostly known for his work at CERN and Culham Laboratory. Despite a lack of formal university education, Adams worked for organizations like the Telecommunications Research Establishment and the Atomic Energy Research Establishment in the 1940s and early 1950s. He served as acting director and eventually as elected director of CERN, from 1976 until 1981.

  1. ^ Stafford, G. H. (1986). "John Bertram Adams. 24 May 1920 – 3 March 1984". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 32: 2–34. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1986.0001. JSTOR 770106. S2CID 72330820.
  2. ^ "Obituary : Sir John Bertram Adams, 63; led European atomic center". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 24 May 2015. Retrieved 2 September 2015.