Nigel Lockyer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Nigel Lockyer

Director of TRIUMF

Date of Birth: 05-Nov-1952

Place of Birth: Annan, Scotland, United Kingdom

Profession: physicist, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Nigel Lockyer is an American experimental particle physicist and current director of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), in Batavia, Illinois, America's premier laboratory for particle physics research, since September 2013. Before becoming Fermilab's director, Lockyer served as director of TRIUMF, Canada's national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics, from May 2007 to September 2013, and was a Professor of Physics at the University of British Columbia and University of Pennsylvania.
He was born in Scotland, raised in Canada, and attended graduate school in the United States.