Lyn Evans

Lyn Evans
Evans in 2012
Born
Lyndon Rees Evans

1945 (age 78–79)
Aberdare, Wales
NationalityWelsh
Alma materSwansea University
AwardsFundamental Physics Prize (2012)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsCERN, Large Hadron Collider;
Linear Collider Collaboration
Lyn Evans in his role as the LHC Project leader (2008)

Lyn Evans CBE FINSTP FLSW FRS (born Lyndon Rees Evans in 1945), is a Welsh scientist who served as the project leader of the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland.[1] Based at CERN, in 2012 he became the director of the Linear Collider Collaboration, an international organisation managing development of next generation particle colliders, including the International Linear Collider and the Compact Linear Collider.[2]

  1. ^ Krause, Michael (2014). "The Man Who Built the LHC: Lyn Evans". CERN: How We Found the Higgs Boson. WORLD SCIENTIFIC. doi:10.1142/9789814623476_0006. ISBN 978-981-4623-55-1.
  2. ^ "Lyn Evans becomes Linear Collider director". CERN Courier. 52 (6): 37. July 2012.