Christopher Llewellyn Smith

Sir Christopher Hubert Llewellyn Smith FRS (born 19 November 1942) is an Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford.[2][3] [4][5][6]

Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith

Sir Christopher Llewellyn Smith during his term of office as Director General of CERN in 1996
Provost of
University College, London
In office
1999–2002
Preceded byDerek Roberts
Succeeded byDerek Roberts
Personal details
Born
Christopher Hubert Llewellyn Smith

(1942-11-19) 19 November 1942
Children2
Alma materUniversity of Oxford (BA, DPhil)
ProfessionPhysicist
Websitewww2.physics.ox.ac.uk/contacts/people/llewellyn-smith
AwardsRichard Glazebrook Medal and Prize
Royal Medal
Scientific career
InstitutionsCERN
University of Oxford
University College London
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Lebedev Physical Institute
Doctoral studentsJohn Wheater
Ian Hinchliffe[1]

Education

Smith was educated at the University of Oxford (BA) and completed his Doctor of Philosophy degree in theoretical physics at New College, Oxford in 1967.[7]

Career and research

After his DPhil he worked at the Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow, CERN and then the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory before returning to Oxford in 1974. Llewellyn Smith was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1984.[8]

While Chairman of Oxford Physics (1987–92), he led the merger of five different departments into a single Physics Department. Smith was Director General of CERN from 1994 through 1998.[9][10] Thereafter he served as Provost and President of University College London (1999–2002).

Awards and honours

Llewellyn Smith received the James Clerk Maxwell Medal and Prize in 1979, and Glazebrook Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics in 1999 and was knighted in 2001. In 2004, he became Chairman of the Consultative Committee for Euratom on Fusion (CCE-FU). Until 2009 he was Director of UKAEA Culham Division, which holds the responsibility for the United Kingdom's fusion programme and operation of the Joint European Torus (JET). He is a member of the Advisory Council for the Campaign for Science and Engineering.[11] In 2013, he joined the National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar, India as a Distinguished Professor. In 2015, he was awarded the Royal Medal of the Royal Society.[12]

Personal life

Llewellyn Smith married in 1966 and has one son and one daughter.[7]

References


Preceded by
Carlo Rubbia
Director General of CERN
1994 1998
Succeeded by
Luciano Maiani
Academic offices
Preceded by
Derek Roberts
Provost of University College, London
1999 2002
Succeeded by
Derek Roberts
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