Lyndon Rees Evans

Lyndon Rees Evans is a Welsh physicist who served as the project leader of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN from 1994 to 2008. He later became the Director of the Linear Collider Collaboration in 2012, overseeing the development of next-generation particle colliders.

• Born: 1945 in Aberdare, Wales
• Alma Mater: Swansea University (BSc in Physics, 1970)
• Current Role: Researcher at CERN and Director of the Linear Collider Collaboration
• Fields of Interest: Physics, Accelerator Physics, Particle Physics, Systems Engineering

His leadership in the LHC project was pivotal for the discovery of the Higgs-like particle, recognized by the 2012 Special Fundamental Physics Prize and 2013 Special Breakthrough Prize. He also received the IEEE Simon Ramo Medal in 2014 for systems engineering contributions to the LHC.

Scientific Awards and Honors

• Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (1991)
• Appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2001)
• Honorary Fellow of the University of Wales Swansea (2002)
• Honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Glamorgan (2010)
• Fellow of the Royal Society (2010) and the Learned Society of Wales (2011)
• 2012 Special Fundamental Physics Prize for the Higgs-like particle discovery
• 2013 Glazebrook Medal from the Institute of Physics
• 2014 IEEE Simon Ramo Medal for systems leadership in LHC development
• 2017 Rolf Widerøe Prize for achievements in accelerator physics