Top: Jack Steinberger — a memorable 65th birthday.

Below: Leon Lederman — Great Successes, Great Failures - high comedy underpinned by real physics.

(Photos Gerard Benin, CERN)

latest .physics venture, now being CERN prepared for final assembly deep Jackfest under the Jura mountains. 'After T. D. Lee who praised him, and Emilio Picasso who buried Over four decades, from his initial him, it's my turn', said Fermilab investigations which helped open Director and contemporary Leon up meson physics at the end of Lederman. Entitled 'Great suc­ the 1940s to leadership of one of cesses, great failures — incidents the big experiments being prepared in experimental physics', Leder- or CERN's LEP electron-positron man's habitual high comedy was Collider, the career of Jack Stein­ underpinned by real physics. berger has paced the development In conclusion, Konrad Klein- of particle physics. knecht presented the Festschrift To mark his 65th birthday, he had edited in collaboration with friends, colleagues and admirers T. D. Lee, with contributions from at CERN paid a special tribute on Baltay to Yang. 16 May. T. D. Lee, who was a Happy and surrounded by graduate student in Chicago with friends, Jack thanked all those in him in 1946, sketched the evolu­ front and behind the scenes for a tion of the weak interaction and memorable afternoon. in particular Steinberger's own landmark contributions. He recalled a discussion with Steinberger on Passing through CERN in May was Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Andreotti (second angular distributions in hyperon from right), the second time he has visited decays which led Lee (with the Laboratory in less than a year. He is seen flanked by (left to right) Nobel C. N. Yang) to realize that parity prizewinners Sam Ting and Abdus Sal am, (left/right symmetry) is broken Italian physicist Antonino Zichichi, prime when the weak force is in action. mover in obtaining Italian support for new projects, LEP Project Director Emilio Emilio Picasso took over to de­ Picasso, and Remo Paolini, Italian scribe the current and future status Ambassador to the International Organizations in Geneva. of the LEP Collider, scene of the ALEPH experiment, Steinberger's (Photo CERN 258.5.86)

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