People and things Herwig Schopper (right) talks with Jean Teillac, President of CERN Council, at a special Council meeting in April. At this meeting. Professor Schopper was unanimously appointed as the next CERN Director General, to take up office on 1 January 1981. (Photo CERN 208.4.80) Herwig Schopper CERN's next Director General On 25th Apri/f at a specially con­ vened session of the CERN Council delegates of the twelve CERN Mem­ ber States unanimously appointed Professor Herwig Schopper as Director General of CERN for the five years 1981-85. He will suc­ ceed John Adams, Executive Direc­ tor General, and Leon Van Hove, Research Director General, on 1 January 1981. Herwig Schopper will move to CERN from his present position as Chairman of the Board of Directors at the DESY Laboratory, a position he assumed in 1973. Under his leadership, DESY has enhanced still further its reputation as a leading high energy physics Laboratory — the physics programme on the DORIS electron-positron storage rings has been amongst the most i fruitful in the world, and the rapid construction of the large PETRA search Association which operates On people ring has been one of the major feats the Laboratory. of accelerator building. Professor A t the recent annual meeting of Schopper has guided DESY through Ron Russell retired from the Ruther­ the American Physical Society in this period with total commitment ford Laboratory at the end of Chicago, Herman Feshbach of MIT to its physics aims and skilful judge­ March. Ron had participated signif­ began his term as APS President. ment as to how these aims could icantly in the construction and oper­ Maurice Goldhaber, Distinguished be achieved. ation of the Nimrod proton syn­ Scientist at Brookhaven, was named He is no stranger to CERN. In chrotron, becoming Head of the vice-president elect. Arthur Schaw- 1970 he became Head of the Nu­ Nimrod Division. In recent years he low of Stanford became this year's clear Physics Division and, before has headed the Division building vice-president. he returned to the Federal Republic the Spallation Neutron Source, and of Germany in 1973, he was mem­ was Chief Engineer at Rutherford. ber of the CERN Directorate for the Norman Ramsey, Higgins Professor Experimental Programme. of Physics at Harvard University, He returns to lead the Laboratory has been elected Chairman of the Royal visitor at TR/UMF when it is hoped that the world's Governing Board of the American largest machine will be under con­ Institute of Physics. Norman Ram­ On 1 April, His Royal Highness struction — the electron-positron sey is a well-known personality on Prince Charles went on a short tour storage ring LEP. Schopper's knowl­ the US high energy physics scene. of the TR/UMF site during a visit edge and experience in particle phy­ He was among those who esta­ to Vancouver. This included an in­ sics and in the management of large blished the Brookhaven Laboratory spection of the operation of the machine projects should prove a and has also been closely asso­ accelerator itself, a typical experi­ valuable asset to CERN during this ciated with Fermilab, where he is ment in the basic physics pro­ challenging time. President of the Universities' Re- gramme, the biomedical facilities 160 CERN Courier, June 1980 Prince Charles has the muon to electron conversion experiment at the TRIUMF cyclotron explained by Doug Bryman (left) and the Laboratory Director, Jack Sample (right). (Photo TRIUMF) of the British Columbia Cancer Foundation and their programme of cancer therapy, and finally the radiochemical facilities installed in the chemistry annexe by Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. for commer­ cial production of radioisotopes. While inspecting the AECL hotcells. Prince Charles used the master- slave manipulators to turn a stop­ cock and thereby symbolically inau­ gurate the chemical processing of irradiated targets. Jacques Prentki, leader of CEHN's Theory Division, celebrated his 60th birthday on 17 April. To mark the occasion, some close friends reminisced on different periods in his career: Ph. Meyer spoke on 'good times in Paris', Bernard d'Es- pagnat on 'the pioneering years at CERN', Dan/e/e Amati on 'the Golden age', Tatiana Faberge on 'theory division through the years' and Paul Musset on 'the theorist in interaction'. This was followed by a short concert of chamber music. History of particle physics An International Symposium on the History of Particle Physics was held at Fermilab from 28-31 May. It concentrated on the origins of particle physics back in the 1930s and 40s before the advent of the big particle accelerators. The im­ pressive list of main speakers in­ cluded Paul Dirac, Gilberto Bernar- dini, Viki Weisskopf, Carl Anderson, Satio Hayakawa, Robert Serber, Bruno Rossi, Willis Lamb, Julian Schwinger and Murray Gell-Mann. Seen here together with Jacques Prentki (left) at the celebrations at CERN to mark his 60th birthday are Tatiana Faberge of Theory Division Secretariat and Daniele Amati. (Photo CERN 120.4.80) CERN Courier, June 1980 161 One of the 4000 horsepower compressors used by the Fermilab Central Helium Liquefier. (Photo Fermilab) SCIPP at Santa Cruz The Regents of the University of California have approved the forma­ tion of a new Institute for Particle Physics on its Santa Cruz Campus. Acronymed SCIPP (the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics I it builds on the strength of existing groups of theoretical and experi­ mental particle physicists. Benefit­ ting from its close proximity to SLAC, the experimental group (started in 1970) has carried out programmes on inelastic muon- nucleon scattering, early charm searches in pion-nuc/eon scattering and dimuon production, all in colla­ boration with SLAC Group D. In addition, a tagged photon scattering experiment has been performed at Fermilab. The principal new enter­ prise of SCIPP is co-responsibility, again with SLAC Group D (plus groups from the Universities of Illi­ nois and Washington) for the next- generation SPEAR detector, called tevatron proton synchrotron. Initial such a way that this limit has com­ MARK III. operation provided liquid helium at pletely disappeared. Under the new Senior fellows at SCIPP are theo­ the rate of 2000 litres per hour, conditions no difficulty was found rists Richard Brower, Michael which is just below half the maxi­ in storing up to 18 mA in a single Nauenberg, and Joel Primack; ex­ mum capacity. The helium will even­ bunch, Such currents were already perimentalists David Dorfan, visitor tually be distributed via satellite stored in PETRA when only 4 r.f. Hartmut Sadrozinski, Terry Schalk, plants to the one thousand super­ cavities were installed but could Abe Seiden, and Dennis Smith. conducting magnets of the Tevatron. not be reproduced once the 60 cavi­ Clemens Heusch is Acting Director. ties needed for higher energies were built in. Serving on its Advisory Committee PETRA improving are Geoffrey Chew, George Trilling, Sidney Drell, Frederick Reines and During a few shifts devoted to ma­ Chinese meeting Donald Oster brock. chine developments on 20 April, the stored beam of PETRA reached Earlier this year, a high energy phy­ the design energy of 19 GeV. Within sics meeting, organized by the Helium starts to flow at Fermilab the next weeks the conditions for Academia Sinica, was held in the production runs at energies near pleasant winter climate of Guang­ On 18 April, Fermilab brought into to 19 GeV will be worked out by zhou, Canton. This was one of the operation the world's largest helium the machine group. Major progress first major scientific meetings to liquefier plant. The liquefier, con­ has also been achieved in the beam be held in China in recent years. It verted from an oxygen/nitrogen currents which can be stored in attracted some 100 physicists from plant previously used in the US PETRA. The reason for the earlier within China, together with some space programme, is destined to 'current limit' at the 7 GeV injection 50 researchers of Chinese origin supply the cooling for the supercon­ energy seems to be understood and working in other countries, and the ducting magnets of the 1000 GeV the machine can now be tuned in physics was of a high standard. 162 CERN Courier, June 1980 A recent display of fifth century BC Greek vases has been exhibited at Fermilab using The inscription reads 'The 1980 Guangzhou an interesting background of magnet Conference on Theoretical Particle Physics'. laminations. The meeting was one of the first major scientific meetings to be held in China in (Photo Fermilab) recent years. m — fa fit *• if. The meeting was conducted in Chi­ voiced his unambiguous support for quences of their research. Those nese, but it is planned to publish fundamental research. Here are a who dispose of knowledge have a the proceedings in English. After­ few excerpts from his statement: special responsibility which must wards, all participants joined in an '...pure research provides the nour­ find expression in practical action. extensive tour of the country, visit­ ishment for future development. In particular, scientists must try to ing Beijing, Shanghai and Hang- Non-applied research, such as parti­ make their knowledge comprehen­ chow. cle physics or astrophysics, is done sible to the public and to politicians. because it springs from an inborn From 10-30 August the 21st Scot­ human curiosity to find the truth. tish Universities' Summer School A culture conscious of its own value in Physics (a NATO Advanced Study must interest itself in fundamental Institute) on Gauge Theories and knowledge concerning the nature Experiments at High Energies will of matter, the universe and life be held at the University of St. An­ itself.' drews.