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The Science and Technology Facilities Council congratulates Dr Stephen Myers, Director of Accelerators and Technology at CERN (European Organisation for Nuclear Research), which built and operates the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), who has been awarded an OBE in Her Majesty the Queen's Birthday Honours List 2013. STFC also congratulate Dr Teresa Anderson and Craig Clark who have both received MBEs and Fiona Fox and Professor James Hough who have also received OBEs.

Dr Myer’s OBE is in recognition of his remarkable services to science and technology. With over forty years of experience at CERN the Belfast born physicist has led a team of over 2,000 researchers and engineers working on the LHC, the world’s most powerful atom smasher, which is used to answer fundamental questions about the building blocks of the Universe.

Professor John Womersley, Chief Executive at STFC, said: "Steve Myers is the man who made the Large Hadron Collider work – as CERN's head of Accelerators and Technology, he was responsible for delivering the particle beams to the ATLAS and CMS experiments, which the scientists then used to discover the Higgs Boson in 2012. Without his vision and hard work, none of this would have been possible."

Dr Myers is now heading up the project to double the LHC's energy in the current long shutdown which will provide yet more discovery potential when the experiments resume running in 2015.

Dr Teresa Anderson, Director, University of Manchester's Discovery Centre at Jodrell Bank has been awarded a MBE for services to Astrophysics. The Discovery Centre at Jodrell Bank works to inspire the next generation of astronomers and physicists and attracts over 15,000 school pupils a year to its exhibitions and education programme.

Craig Clark, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Clyde Space has also been awarded an MBE for services to technology and innovation. Clyde Space works with STFC and others to deliver small and micro spacecraft systems.

Fiona Fox, Director of the Science Media Centre (SMC), was awarded her OBE for services to science. The SMC work to ensure science is reported accurately in the media.

Professor James Hough, Chief Executive Office of the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance (SUPA), and Associate Director of the Institute of Gravitational Research at the University of Glasgow, was awarded the OBE for services to science.

The full list of honours can be viewed on the London Gazette website.

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