biography
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| (1920–84)
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| biography:
| British nuclear physicist, and founder member of CERN, Geneva. He went from school in London into the Siemens Research Laboratory in Woolwich, then worked on wartime radar development. At Harwell he engineered the world's first major post-war accelerator (the 180 MeV cyclotron) in 1949. At CERN he engineered the 25 GeV proton synchroton (1954), and became director-general there in 1960. In 1961 he established the laboratory at Culham for research on controlled nuclear fusion, and was appointed controller of the new ministry of technology in 1964. He returned to Geneva to mastermind the building of the 450 GeV super-proton-synchroton (1969–76), and was director-general of CERN for a second time (1976–80). |
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