John Adams (physicist)

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Sir John Bertram Adams KBE FRS (24 May 1920-3 March 1984]) was a British nucelar physicist and administrator.

During World War II, Adams worked in the Radar laboratories of the British Ministry of Aircraft Production. After the war he moved to Harwell, and the Atomic Energy Research establishment, designing a 180 MeV synchro-cyclotron. In 1953 he joined CERN as director of the Proton Synchotron division. In 1961 he returned to the UK as director of the Culham Fusion Laboratory, and then from 1966 to 1971 he was a member of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority.

Returning to CERN in 1971 as Director-General of Laboratory II, he led the design of the Super Proton Synchrotron. With the reorganisation of CERN in 1976 he became the executive Director-General, working on obtaining funding for the LEP collider.

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• John Adams memorial page at CERN