"Briton of the Year"
Professor John Ellis has been named as a "Briton of the year" by the /Daily Telegraph/.
The paper identified just 25 Britons from across the country who had 'left an indelible mark in our minds' during 2011. Professor Ellis is Clerk Maxwell Professor of Theoretical Physics at King's and was the first theorist to propose a method for searching for the elusive Higgs boson particle. He pioneered the Large Hadron Collider project at Cern, where he has worked since 1978, and from where it was announced last month they had found hints of the Higgs and of faster-than-light particles. With 2011 proving to be quite a year for physics, the newspaper said about Professor Ellis: ‘Now is the time to mark the contribution he has made in his 33 years at the particle-physics coalface.