Terence Richard Wyatt (born 29 June 1957) is a Professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the

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, UK.

Education

Wyatt was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Tamworth,

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(Bachelor of Science) and St Edmund Hall, Oxford where he was awarded a

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degree in 1983 for research supervised by Robin Devenish at the

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Career and research

Wyatt's conducts research in

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primarily on the

DØ experiment The DØ experiment (sometimes written D0 experiment, or DZero experiment) was a worldwide collaboration of scientists conducting research on the fundamental nature of matter. DØ was one of two major experiments (the other was the CDF experim ...

at the Tevatron proton-antiproton collider in

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and on the ATLAS experiment at the

Large Hadron Collider The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and highest-energy particle collider. It was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) between 1998 and 2008 in collaboration with over 10,000 scientists and hundred ...

proton-proton collider in

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. He was one of three short-listed candidates for the position of CERN

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in 2014, with

Fabiola Gianotti Fabiola Gianotti (; born 29 October 1960) is an Italian experimental particle physicist who is the current and first woman Director-General at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Switzerland. Her first mandate began on 1 Janua ...

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

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from the

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(IOP) in 2011.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wyatt, Terry Academics of the University of Manchester Living people Fellows of the Royal Society Alumni of Imperial College London Alumni of St Edmund Hall, Oxford 1957 births British physicists People associated with CERN