Christopher Llewellyn-Smith#
Membership Number: | 308 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
Elected: | 1989 |
Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Homepage(s): | http://www-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/people/ChrisLlewellynSmith |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2008 - present Visiting Pprfessor, Oxfrod Physics
- 2003 - 2008 Director, UKAEA Culham Division
- 1999 - 2002 Provost and prsident, University College, London
- 1994 - 1998 Director general, CERN
- 1974 - 1993 Physics Department, Univ. Oxford (successiely: Lecturer, Reader, Professor, First Chaiman of Physics)
- 1972 - 1974 Staff Member, Theoretical Studies Division, CERN
- 1970 - 1972 Resarch Associate, Stanford Linear Accelerator Centre
- 1968 - 1970 Fellow, Theoretical Studies Division, CERN
- 1967 - 1968 Royal Society Exchange Fellow, Physical Insititue of the Academy of Sceinces Moscow
- 1967 D.Phil, Theoretical Physics, Univ. Oxford
Fields of Scholarship
- Theoretical partcile physics
- Fusion energy
- General energy issues
Honours and Awards
- 1979 Maxwell Prize and Medal
- 1984 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 1989 Academia Europaea
- 1994 Fellow of the American Physical Society
- 1997 Hon. D.Sc., Bristol, UK
- 1997 Hon. D.Cien., Granada, Spain
- 1997 Hon. D.Sc., Shandong, China
- 1997 Medal of the Japanese Association of Medical Sciences
- 1997 Gold Medal of the Slovak Academy of Science
- 1998 Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy
- 1998 Honorary Fellow, University of Wales, Cardiff, UK
- 1998 US Department of Energy Distinguished Associate Award
- 1998 US National Science Foundation Distinguished Service Award
- 1999 Glazebrook Medal (Institute of Physics)
- 2000 Honorary Fellow, St John's College, Oxford
- 2001 Knight Bachelor (for "services to particle physics")
- 2002 Honorary Fellow, New College, Oxford
- 2003 Honorary Fellow, the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
- 2008 Honorary Fellow, the Institute of Physics