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Leading neutron lab appoints new director

19 Dec 2001

A British physicist has been named as the next director of Europe’s largest neutron source – the Institut Laue Langevin (ILL) in Grenoble, France. Colin Carlile was formerly British Associate Director of the organization, which was jointly founded by the UK, France and Germany. Before he moved to ILL in 1999, Carlile was head of the Spectroscopy and Support division of the ISIS neutron facility at the Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory in the UK. The appointment is for five years.

Neutron scattering is a powerful probe of the properties of matter, from biological materials and chemical compounds to sub-atomic particles. ILL was established in 1967 by France and Germany to provide the international scientific community with a powerful source of neutrons for structural research, which it generates with its high-flux reactor. The UK became an equal member of the laboratory in 1973, and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council now funds its share of a third of the budget. Six other European countries have since become partners of the laboratory. Carlile succeeds Dirk Dubbers as director of ILL, who is returning to the University of Heidelberg in Germany.

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