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Published online 17 December 2008 | Nature 456, 862-868 (2008) | doi:10.1038/456862a
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Newsmaker of the year: The machine maker
He did more than anyone to build the Large Hadron Collider. This year he saw it finished -- and then break down. Geoff Brumfiel profiles the LHC's project leader, Nature's newsmaker of the year.
Lyndon Rees Evans gets up from his desk and crosses his sparsely furnished office to a shelf filled with notebooks. He pauses before choosing one and bringing it to the table.
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What a wonderful reading on the X-mas eve, Lyn will be remembered as a great man in academic world; an epitome of doggedness and commitment to the ultimate.
This is almost a biographical sketch-sketch of happening of world?s largest accelerator. This goes well with scientific fraternity that there has to be a dream ? time and determination will have it realized. For Lyn it must be an very satisfactory year.