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Born Terence Richard Wyatt 29 June 1957 (age 67) ( 1957-06-29 ) Institutions University of ManchesterFermilabCERN Thesis A study of the production of b quarks in e+e- annihilation at high energies (1983) Doctoral students James AgnewPengfei DingTimothy HeadMika Vesterinen Notable awards DPhil (1983)Chadwick Medal (2011)FRS (2013) Institution | ||
Terence Richard Wyatt (born 29 June 1957) FRS is a Professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester, UK.
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Education
Wyatt was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Tamworth, Imperial College London (Bachelor of Science) and St Edmund Hall, Oxford where he was awarded a DPhil degree in 1983 for research supervised by Robin Devenish.
Career and Research
Wyatt's conducts research in particle physics primarily on the DØ experiment at the Tevatron proton-antiproton collider in Fermilab and on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider proton-proton collider in CERN. He was one of three short-listed candidates for the position of CERN Director General in 2014, with Fabiola Gianotti and Frank Linde.
Awards and honours
Wyatt was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2013. His certificate of election reads:
Wyatt was also awarded the Chadwick Medal from the Institute of Physics in 2011.