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• The Sixth International Wigner Symposium (WigSym6) will be held in Istanbul,Turkey, on 16-22 August as part of the ongoing biennial series of International Wigner symposia. Concentrating on quantum and conformal field theory, strings and quantum groups, the even will be held at Bogazici University on one of the hills of Bosphorus. Internet "http:// www.wigsym6.boun.edu.tr". E-mail "wigsym6 @boun.edu.tr". For an automated answering service, e-mail "" with WIGSYM.99 on the subject line. The American Physical Society (APS) Centennial meeting in Atlanta on 20-26 March, • The Ninth Lomonosov Conference on attended by some 11400, physicists was the largest meeting in history. At the Elementary , organized by the event, Cecilia Jarlskog of CERN (with microphone), who chairs the Nobel Committee for Interregional Centre for Advanced Studies, Physics and Chemistry, opened a photographic gallery of physics laureates. On the right is Moscow; the Faculty of Physics, the Institute APS President and 1990 Nobel Prize for Physics winner Jerome Friedman. of Theoretical Microphysics of the Moscow State University; the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna; the Instituto Superior Tecnico - CENTRA, Lisbon; the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow; Klaus Schultze the Institute for High Energy Physics, Protvino; and the Institute for Nuclear Research, Enthusiastic and committed physicist Klaus Moscow) will be held at Moscow State Schultze died on 8 April aged 67. University, Moscow, from 20-26 September. After receiving his doctorate at Wurzburg Topics will include electroweak theory, tests of with a thesis on the range of electrons in a the and beyond, heavy quark heavy liquid bubble chamber, Schultze physics, non-perturbative QCD, neutrino became a CERN fellow in 1962, joining the physics, astroparticle physics and quantum NPA heavy liquid bubble chamber group. gravity effects. Further information is available Using the CERN 1 m chamber, he participated at "[email protected]" and in the first successful bubble chamber neu­ "[email protected]". trino experiments. After three years he went to Klaus Schultze. • The Symposium on Applications of particle RWTH Aachen, where he set up a bubble detectors in Medicine, Biology and chamber group collaborating with the ongoing measurement of Z parameters. Astrophysics (SAMBA) will take place in programme at CERN in the NPA, Gargamelle From the early 1980s, Schultze devoted an Siegen on 6-8 October. Further information is and BEBC chambers. It was at Aachen that increasing part of his time to the responsibility available at "http://www.physik.uni-siegen. the first event in Gargamelle demonstrating of scientists to society. He participated in de/samba/". E-mail "[email protected]. neutral currents in neutrino-electron scatter­ studies on the devastating effects of nuclear uni-siegen.de". ing was observed, and Schultze's group made warfare ("nuclear winter") and became major contributions to the measurement of Secretary of the Science and Society Bruno Pontecorvo prize structure functions and scaling violations. Committee of the European Physical Society. Vladimir Lobashev of the Institute for Nuclear Schultze then reoriented the group to par­ Later his concerns shifted to the problems of Research, Moscow/Troitsk, received the pres­ ticipate in the European Muon Collaboration energy and the greenhouse effect. tigious 1998 Bruno Pontecorvo prize, awarded (EMC), which discovered the EMC Effect and Schultze was invited to bodies concerned by the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, was at the origin of the "spin crisis", and the with environmental and energy policies and Dubna, near Moscow, in recognition of his follow-up NMC experiment. was one of the driving forces of the Energy contributions to weak interaction physics. With the advent of LER he joined the L3 Working Party of the German Physical Society, collaboration, adding to his research career.a working on strategies to reduce energy demand in National Academy of Sciences member final chapter of weak interaction physics, industrialized countries and to introduce Fermilab theorist William Bardeen has been where his group has contributed substantially renewable energy sources. He passed away elected a member of the US National to the central tracking chamber and the during a meeting of that working party. Academy of Sciences.

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