Nigel Lockyer
Nigel Lockyer OBE | |
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Lockyer in 2016 | |
| Director of CLASSE | |
| Assumed office May 1, 2023 | |
| 6th Director of the Fermilab | |
| In office September 3, 2013 – April 18, 2022 | |
| President | Barack Obama Donald Trump Joe Biden |
| Preceded by | Piermaria Oddone |
| Succeeded by | Lia Merminga |
| 7th Director of TRIUMF | |
| In office May 2007 – September 2013 | |
| Preceded by | Alan Shotter |
| Succeeded by | Jonathan Bagger |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Nigel Stuart Lockyer November 5, 1952 Annan, Scotland |
| Nationality | American, British |
| Awards | Panofsky Prize (2006) American Physical Society Fellowship Bryden Award (2014) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics (high-energy particle physics) |
| Institutions | University of British Columbia University of Pennsylvania TRIUMF Fermilab |
| Education | York University (BS) Ohio State University (PhD) |
Nigel Stuart Lockyer OBE (born 5 November 1952) is a British-American experimental particle physicist. He is the current director of the Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-based ScienceS and Education (CLASSE) as of May 1, 2023. He was the Director of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), in Batavia, Illinois, the leading particle physics laboratory in the United States, from September 2013 to April 2022.
Prior to becoming Fermilab's Director, Lockyer served as Director of TRIUMF, Canada's national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics, from May 2007 to September 2013, and was a Professor of Physics at the University of British Columbia and University of Pennsylvania. He was born in Scotland, raised in Canada, and attended graduate school in the United States.