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People and Things People and things Leon Van Hove - 65 in February Planck Institute for Physics and eminent particle theorist at the Astrophysics. Van Hove's eventful Stanford Linear Accelerator Centre five-year mandate as Research Di­ until 1977, Berman receives the rector General saw the first fruits award 'for his pioneering and crea­ of experiments at the then new tive contributions to the application SPS proton synchrotron, the monu­ of scientific methods in the areas mental decision to go for the pro- of heat and light transfers in win­ ton-antiproton collider, which was dow materials and in the conver­ to bring unprecedented honours to sion of electricity to visible light; CERN, the careful grooming of the and for his contributions to the proposal for the LEP electron-posi­ translation of these insights to the tron collider and the start of prepa­ development of practical, economi­ rations for its experimental pro­ cally viable products with the po­ gramme. tential to save significant amounts Not covered by the speakers but of energy by reducing losses in no less important for that have windows and lighting'. been his widespread interests away from the front line of re­ The Prix Paul Doistau/Emile Blutet search, including his role in organiz­ of the Institut de France, Academie ing the joint CERN/European Sou­ des Sciences, goes to Jean-Marc thern Observatory Symposia on Gaillard, currently continuing an Astronomy, Cosmology and Funda­ important role in the UA2 experi­ Leon Van Hove 65 mental Physics, his work in pan-Eu­ ment at CERN's proton-antiproton ropean research committees, and collider. The prize, to be awarded A special symposium at CERN on his efforts to further CERN's public in December, recognizes his im­ 20 February marked the 65th birth­ image. CERN publications in general portant contributions to the study day of Leon Van Hove, eminent and the CERN Courier in particular of weak nuclear interactions. After theorist and phenomenologist and have benefited considerably from participating in the famous 1961/2 CERN's Research Director General his interest and constructive criti­ Brookhaven neutrino experiment from 1976-80. With Maurice Ja­ cism. with Leon Lederman, Mel Schwartz cob as session chairman, Wolfram and Jack Steinberger, he helped Kittel highlighted Van Hove's tal­ make important measurements of ents in developing incisive pictures On people the decays of neutral kaons and of to describe the apparently complex hyperons. phenomena of multiple particle pro­ Theorist John S. Bell of CERN re­ duction. Van Hove explained that ceives the 1989 Dannie Heineman A meeting at Caltech in January he had seen this physics as an ex­ Prize for Mathematical Physics, ad­ marked (some months prematurely) cellent means of exploiting the ministered by the American Physi­ the 60th birthday of 1969 Nobellist mass of off-resonance bubble cal Society and the American Insti­ Murray Gell-Mann. Speakers re­ chamber data which was otherwise tute for Physics, 'for his numerous flected the wide range of Gell- discarded. incisive original contributions to Mann's interests and accomplish­ DESY Director Volker Soergel quantum theory and elementary ments - complex systems, envi­ took over to summarize Van particle physics; in particular for ronment, society and the human Hove's impressive career, with its the Bell inequality, which has mind as well as the fundamental beginnings in mathematics and played a major role in theoretical laws of physics. then in solid-state physics and sta­ and experimental work on the foun­ tistical mechanics. Arriving at CERN dations of quantum mechanics'. At a brief ceremony at the West in 1960 to lead the Theory Division German Consulate in Geneva on 24 and confront particle physics, he Sam Berman of Berkeley is the February, Dettmar Wiskott, form­ went on in 1971 to succeed Wern­ first recipient of the US Department er CERN computer specialist who er Heisenberg at Munich's Max of Energy Sadi Carnot Award. An retired last year, received thp Bun- CERN Courier, April 1989 23 With Murray Gell-Mann (top right) at his 60th birthday event at Caltech is Yuval Ne 'eman, co-author with Geil-Mann of the famous 'Eightfold Way' in the early 1960s (March issue, page 1). Superstring superstars. Also at the Gell- Mann 60th birthday event were (below, left to right) Mike Green, Ed Witten and John Schwa rz. (Photos M. Jacob) desverdienstkreuz (Federal Service Cross) in recognition of his 22 years of social work for the Ger­ man community in the Geneva area. Theorist Sidney Drell, deputy Di­ rector of the Stanford Linear Accel­ erator Center (SLAC), has resigned as co-director of Stanford Universi­ ty's Center for International Securi­ ty and Arms Control, a post he has held since 1983. Marcel Lazanski has formally re­ tired from CERN after many years as Leader of Finance Division. He was one of the pioneers at the Lab­ oratory, helping to build the first CERN accelerator, the 600 MeV synchro-cyclotron, in the mid 1950s. He joined Finance Division in 1971 and in his farewell address to CERN Council he could look back on 1440 contracts, 600,000 ord­ ers and 1.2 million invoices for a total close to 6 billion Swiss francs. Alvin W. Trivelpiece, formerly Di­ rector of the Office of Energy Re­ search in the US Department of En­ ergy, is the new Director of the US Oak Ridge National Laboratory, succeeding Herman Postma. Melvin Shocket of Chicago. Follow­ Fermilab moves ing the departure of Bruce Chris- man, Richard Lundy, Fermilab's As­ New appointments at Fermilab in­ sociate Director for Technology, clude Gerald Dugan as Head of Ac­ becomes also Acting Director for celerator Division, replacing Helen A dministration. Edwards, who has commitments to the proposed US Superconducting Supercollider, SSC. In Fermilab fs Research Division, Robert Kephart becomes head of the CDF collider detector. For the CDF scientific col­ laboration, the spokesmen are now Gerald Dugan becomes Head of Fermilab's Alvin Tollestrup of Fermilab and Accelerator Division. 24 CERN Courier, April 1989 Sir Alec Merrison 1924-1989 peccable courtesy. Although a modest and unassuming person, he made his mark in government, Three share commerce and the arts as well as Panofsky Prize in physics. This year's Wolfgang K.H. Panofsky Prize (sponsored by Alan Rittenberg 1938-1989 the Divisionmof Particles and Fields of the American Physi­ Alan Rittenberg died on 3 January cal Society) will be awarded after a long illness. After graduate in May to Jerome Friedman research work with the Alvarez and Henry Kendall of MIT and group at Berkeley, he went on to Richard Taylor of the Stanford become a group leader in the Parti­ Linear Accelerator Center cle Data Group, and for nearly two (SLAC) for their leadership in decades was responsible for the the first 'deep-inelastic' elec­ organization, preparation and pro­ tron scattering experiments duction of the Review of Particle which explored the far interior Properties, the particle physicists' of nuclear particles. bible, and other publications. His According to the citation, attention to detail and constant 'These electron-nucleon scat­ striving for excellence played a ma­ tering experiments, which Sir Alec Merrison 1924-1989 jor role in the accuracy and integri­ were a vehicle for the discov­ ty of these works, from which the ery of the 'scaling' phenome­ CERN and the world of physics suf­ entire particle physics community non, gave the first direct evi­ fered a great loss at the sudden has benefited. dence for a charged, pointlike death on 19 February of Sir Alec substructure inside the nu- Merrison. cleon.' Further experiments Entering particle physics at the with electron, muon and neu­ UK's Harwell Laboratory and the Spinoff marketing trino probes went on to show University of Liverpool, he arrived that these pointlike consti­ at CERN in 1957, where he colla­ Lake Shore Cryotronics of Ohio has tuents were in fact the quarks borated in the historic first experi­ been granted exclusive rights to predicted in the early 1960s ment at the new Laboratory, the market a technique developed at by Murray Gell-Mann and measurement at the Synchro-Cy­ Los Alamos for measuring the qual­ George Zweig and paved the clotron of the decay of a charged ity of new high temperature super­ way for later physics ad­ pion into an electron. He returned conductors. The brainchild of Los vances. to the UK in 1960 where he went Alamos engineer James D. Doss As leaders of the famous on to become founding Director of (November 1988, page 32), the MIT-SLAC collaboration, the Da res bury Laboratory from eddy current technique will be in­ Friedman, Kendall and Taylor 1962-69, overseeing the construc­ corporated into a new market pro­ played a vital role in the con­ tion and commissioning of the duct. In 1988, Los Alamos was ception and development of NINA electron accelerator. In 1968- one of the US National Laboratories 'End Station A' at SLAC dur­ 69 his working party made valuable selected to spearhead ongoing su­ ing the 1960s. This powerful recommendations on CERN's ad­ perconductor research and devel­ complex of magnetic spec­ ministrative structure, and his tal­ opment. The agreement also fol­ trometers, detectors and ents continued to be widely lows a US Department of Energy computers pointed the way sought. His Presidency of CERN directive urging laboratories to for much subsequent fixed Council from 1982-84 was charac­ share new technology with indus­ target work. terized by his adroitness and im­ try. CERN Courier, April 1989 25 With civil engineering work for HERA com­ plete, Hamburg mayor Ingo Munch hands DESY Director Volker Soergel the symbolic key to the HERA buildings.
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