Gösta Ekspong

John Adams, CERN Director General, and Gösta Ekspong, Chair of the CERN Scientific Policy Committee. Anders Gösta Ekspong (born Anders Gösta Carlson on 24 February 1922 in Skogstorp, Husby-Rekarne Township, Södermanland County, – 24 February 2017 ) was a Swedish physicist and former professor at Stockholm University. His main area of work was atomic physics. Ekspong defended his thesis for doctorate in 1955 at Uppsala University with a dissertation on Cosmic Radiation under supervision of Axel E. Lindh.

Ekspong is considered to be one of the Swedish pioneers in the involvement of the particle physics laboratory at CERN. At CERN, he was chairman of the Emulsion Experiments Committee from the early 1960s as well as member of the Scientific Policy Committee (1969-1975), where he also spent two years as chairman (1972-1974). He made a significant contribution to the search strategies that would later be used in the search of the Higgs boson and participated in the technological development of DELPHI. He is currently buried at Skogskyrkogården in Stockholm.