Terry Wyatt


Terence Richard Wyatt FRS is a Professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester, UK.

Education

Wyatt was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Tamworth, Imperial College London 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 in 2013. His certificate of election reads:
Wyatt was also awarded the James Chadwick Medal and Prize from the Institute of Physics in 2011.