Education
New College.
New College.
In theoretical physics at New College, Oxford in 1967. Thereafter he worked at the Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow, European Organization of Nuclear Research and then the SLAC before returning to Oxford in 1974. Llewellyn Smith was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1984.
While Chairman of Oxford Physics (1987-1992) he led the merger of five different departments into a single Physics Department.
Smith was Director General of European Organization of Nuclear Research from 1994 through 1998. Thereafter he served as Provost and President of University College London (1999–2002).
In 2004 he became Chairman of the Consultative Committee for Euratom on Fusion (CCE-Freie Universität). Until 2009 he was Director of United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority Culham Division, which holds the responsibility for the United Kingdom"s fusion programme and operation of the Joint European Torus (Joint European Torus).
In 2013, he joined the National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar, India as a Distinguished Professor.
In 2015, he was awarded the Royal Medal of the Royal Society.
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He is a member of the Advisory Council for the Campaign for Science and Engineering.
