| Lyn Evans | |
| Birth Name: | Lyndon Rees Evans |
| Birth Place: | Aberdare, Wales |
| Nationality: | Welsh |
| Alma Mater: | Swansea University |
| Field: | Physics |
| Work Institutions: | CERN, Large Hadron Collider; Linear Collider Collaboration |
| Prizes: | Fundamental Physics Prize (2012) |
Lyndon Rees Evans (born 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]
Born and raised in Cwmbach near Aberdare in the South Wales Valleys, Evans had an interest in chemistry in his youth, initially enrolling in university to study the subject before switching to physics because he found the subject easier.[3] Evans was educated at Aberdare Boys' Grammar School, where he developed an interest in physics. However, he found it difficult to pass his O Level in French, a qualification which was required to allow him to enter his course at the University College of Swansea (now Swansea University), from where he graduated in 1970.[4] He switched to physics in his second year of undergraduate study at Swansea.[3] He went to CERN initially as a research fellow, having previously visited the establishment in 1969 as a visitor.[3]
In 1994,[5] he became involved in the planning of the project which would become the Large Hadron Collider. He served as the LHC project leader until 2008.[6] In 2011 at the international symposium on subnuclear physics held in Vatican City, he gave a talk The Proton Beam for the Neutrino Velocity Measurement with OPERA.[7]
In June 2012, the International Committee for Future Accelerators selected Evans as Director of the Linear Collider Collaboration, an international effort promoting construction of a new linear collider to complement CERN's Large Hadron Collider.