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Argonne National Laboratory, USA M. Derrick Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA A. Stevens CEBAF Laboratory, USA S. Corneliussen CERN, Geneva G. Fraser Cornell University, USA D. G. Cassel Wolf Prize On people DESY Laboratory, Fed. Rep. of Germany P. Waloschek The prestigious Wolf Foundation As well as the W.K.H. Panofsky Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Prize for is awarded to Prize for of Ber­ USA Maurice Goldhaber of Brookhaven keley and Francois Pierre of Saclay M. Bodnarczuk and Valentine Telegdi of ETH Zu­ (January/February, page 23), the GSI Darmstadt, Fed. Rep. of Germany G. Siegert rich. 1991 American Physical Society Goldhaber is cited particularly for (APS) Awards include the J.J. Sa- INFN, Italy A. Pascolini his work on the photodisintegration kurai Prize for Vladimir N. Gribov of IHEP, Beijing, China of the deuteron with Chadwick in Moscow's Landau Institute for The­ Qi Nading 1935, on dipole vibrations of the oretical Physics. The citation reads JINR Dubna nucleus with Teller in 1948, on the 'for his pioneering work on the high B. Starchenko classification of nuclear isomers energy behaviour of quantum field KEK National Laboratory, Japan and their shell model interpretation theories and his elucidating studies S. Iwata (1951), and on the helicity of the of the global structure of non-Abe- Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, USA with Grodzins and lian gauge theories. B. Feinberg Sunyar (1958). Later he stressed Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA 0. B. van Dyck the importance of looking for pro­ NIKHEF Laboratory, Netherlands ton decay. F. Erne Telegdi's award recognizes his The APS 1991 Forum Award goes Novosibirsk Institute, USSR major contributions to measure­ to 'for his life­ V. Balakin ments of parity violation, including long effort to stimulate public Orsay Laboratory, France pioneer demonstrations of the ef­ awareness of the beauty of science Anne-Marie Lutz fect in pion decay; work on muon and the dangers of its abuses'. PSI Laboratory, Switzerland capture; the measurement of the J. F. Crawford helicity of the muon neutrino; the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK Louise Hall study of 'muonium'; an innovative method for determining the muon The Prix Ricard of the Societe Fran- Saclay Laboratory, France Elisabeth Locci magnetic moment; and several ele­ Qaise de Physique has been IHEP, Serpukhov, USSR gant and influential experiments on awarded to Marcel Banner of Sa­ Yu. Ryabov the neutral kaon system. His early clay, leader of the Saclay team in Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, USA work showed the 'universal' char­ the UA2 experiment at CERN's pro- W. Kirk acter of weak interactions, where ton- collider during its Superconducting Super Collider, USA and muons have the first phase of operation (1981-85). N. V. Baggett same affinity. He was elected a member of TRIUMF Laboratory, Canada CERN's Scientific Policy Committee M. K. Craddock Goldhaber's and Telegdi's studies are characterized by their in 1986 and is now Head of Exper­ incisiveness and elegance. imental Physics in Saclay's Depart-

CERN Courier, March 1991 29 merit of Elementary Particle Phy­ cluded the observation of several rays. For his entire research career sics. new fundamental processes. His Anderson remained at Caltech, re­ research also led to the develop­ tiring in 1976. ment of ionization calorimeters, Odd Dahl honoured and the idea of using solid iron magnets for studying penetrating Meetings In a simple ceremony in Bergen last particles. From 1929-31 he visited Physics in Collision XI will be held year, Norwegian Odd Dahl the Curie Laboratory in Paris. from 20-22 June in Colmar was presented with a special Hon­ Shortly before the Second World (France). Attendance is by invita­ orary Stipend from the Royal Nor­ War he moved to Moscow's Le- tion only. Information e-mail PHYS- wegian Council for Scientific and bedev Physical Institute, where he COLL at FRCCSC21 or phone D. Industrial Research. The citation went on to serve as Director for Huss - (33) 89 42 48 46, or J.-M. read 'for his contributions in the more than twenty years (1950-72). Brom - tel (33) 88 28 62 72. furtherance of research and techno­ logical development spanning a professional breadth and depth that Carl D. Anderson 1905-1991 The International Symposium on places him in a special class, both Hypernuclear and nationally and internationally'. Carl D. Anderson, best-known for Physics will be held in Shimoda, Dahl played a crucial role in the his discovery of the positron in Japan, from 9-12 December, early days of CERN, leading the 1931, died on 11 January. As stu­ organized by Tokyo's Institute for machine group which in the 1950s dent of Robert Millikan at Caltech, Nuclear Study (INS) as the 20th INS was studying an accelerator 'for he received his PhD in 1930, and International Symposium. Informa­ energies greater than 10 GeV and at Millikan's suggestion began to tion from Osamu Morimatsu, Insti­ in particular the problems of build­ look at cosmic rays using a cloud tute for Nuclear Study, University ing a scaled-up version of the chamber, building a detector with of Tokyo, 3-2-1 Midori-cho, Tana- Brookhaven Cosmotron'. A visit to the highest magnetic field then shi, Tokyo 188, Japan, phone Brookhaven convinced him of the available (25 kilogauss). 0424-61-4131 ext 222, fax 0424- value of the new principle of strong Suggestions of particles moving 62-0763, e-mail (bitnet) hyper91 at focusing and he set his sights on a in the 'wrong' direction in this field jpnutins or (decnet) 41729::hyp- new machine in the 20-30 GeV were confirmed by mounting a er91 range which became CERN's Pro­ sheet of lead across the chamber, ton Synchrotron. Over 30 years lat­ and the discovery of the positron - The 8th Meeting of the Inter­ er, this remains the hub of CERN's the of the electron - national Radiation Protection Asso­ unique interconnected particle followed, confirming Dirac's con­ ciation will be held in Montreal beam system. temporary theory. At the time An­ from 17-22 May, 1992. Further in­ Dahl is now retired and living at derson said 7 knew about the Dirac formation from IRPA 8, 2155 Guy Skandia Aldershjem, Kong Os- theory... but was not familiar with Street, Suite 820, Montreal, Que­ cardsgate 22, 5017 Bergen, Nor­ it. I was too busy operating my bec, Canada H3H 2R9; fax (514) way. equipment....'. 932-9419. Subsequently, with Seth Nedder- meyer, he continued cloud chamber A Conference on Liquid Noble Gas D.V. Skobelzyn 1892-1990 cosmic ray studies, finding initial Detectors and their Applications evidence for what they called a will be held in Stockholm from 21- D.V. Skobelzyn, who died on 16 'heavy electron' and only ten years 23 August. Planned topics include November, was well-known for his later was finally identified as the state-of-the-art of detector sys­ many pioneering contributions to mu-, or muon. tems, applications to LHC and SSC, cosmic ray and particle studies For his positron discovery, he double beta-decay, astrophysics, which helped provide a solid foun­ was awarded the 1936 Nobel Phy­ etc. Suggestions are welcome. dation for modern physics. Begin­ sics Prize, sharing it with Viktor CERN Research Director W. Hoo- ning in 1923 in Leningrad, these Hess of Innsbruck, who was hon­ gland will talk about the R&D for early cloud chamber studies in­ oured for his discovery of cosmic LHC, and F. Engstroem, director of

30 CERN Courier, March 1991 Albert Burger 1923-1991.

ESA's European space station, will search communities. This is a pity, cover space activities. Information because much of the central sub­ from Thomas Lindblad, MSI, ject matter remains common S-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden; ground. However this trend is rec­ phone +468 16 11 09; tified in a new book 'Cosmic Rays fax +468 15 86 74; and ' by Thomas K. bitnet LINDBLAD at Gaisser published by Cambridge VAND.PHYSTO.SE University Press (ISBN hardback 0 521 32667 2, paperback 0 521 Albert Burger 1923-91 33931 6). It concentrates on the 1991 CERN School of Computing highest energy cosmic rays, their Albert Burger, one of CERN's ear­ possible origin and their means of The 1991 CERN School of Comput­ liest staff members, died on 20 detection. ing, to be held from 23 August to January. He joined the Organization 2 September, is organized in colla­ From North Holland comes in 1955, and gained valuable ex­ boration with the Swedish Physical 'Astrophysics of Cosmic Rays' by perience at the Synchrocyclotron of Society's Section of Particle Phy­ V.S. Berezinskii, S.V. Bulanov, the Carnegie Institute of Technolo­ sics and will take place at Ystad, V.A. Dogiel, V.L. Ginzburg (editor) gy, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, where 60 km east of Malmo. The pro­ and V.S. Ptuskin (translated from he took part, under the direction of gramme will evolve around four Russian, ISBN 0 444 8864 1 9) Professor Ashkin, in an important main themes - Requirements for which concentrates on the main is­ experiment on pion- scatter­ LHC, Artificial Intelligence, Comput­ sues and provides a useful intro­ ing. er Architecture, Operating Systems duction and survey. On his return to Geneva in 1957, and Languages. Information from he joined the hydrogen bubble Mrs. I. Barnett, CN Division, CERN, Noel! extends magnet interests chamber group and participated ac­ 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland; e- tively in the construction of CERN's maii barnett at cernvm..ch Noell GmbH of Wurzburg, a mem­ first bubble chambers. In 1961 he ber of the Preussag industrial became deputy to Charles Peyrou, group, is extending its interests in head of the Track Chambers Divi­ DESY Theory Workshop magnet technology, and the rele­ sion. His very efficient and charac­ vant product range of ABB Mann­ teristically modest management of The 1991 DESY Theory Workshop heim was taken over at the end of TC administration, personnel and will take place from 30 September last year. financial affairs was a major contri­ - 2 October, the title being The Noell supplied 120 supercon­ bution to the Division's success, Standard Model at High Tempera­ ducting quadrupoles for the HERA whose major task was the con­ ture and Density'. Organizing com­ electron-proton collider soon to be struction and operation of the 2- mittee chairman is Helmut Satz of commissioned at the German DESY metre chamber and BEBC. The Bielefeld, currently at CERN's Theo­ Laboratory in Hamburg, and has re­ large number of pictures produced ry Division (bitnet satz at cently been awarded a CERN order and distributed all over Europe con­ cernvm.cern.ch). Registration re­ for four prototype full-length (10 m) tributed greatly to the early partici­ quests should be sent to Helga twin aperture dipoles for the LHC pation of outside groups in particle Laudien, DESY Theory Group, Not- proton collider proposed for physics. kestrasse 85, D-2000 Hamburg, CERN's 2 7-kilometre LEP tunnel. His organizing talents greatly fa­ Germany. A total of eight of these proto­ cilitated the restructuring of TC into types have been ordered by CERN EF Division, and in particular his fi­ Books from various firms, and two have nancial skills in the face of limited been ordered by the Italian INFN funding allowed the Division to pro­ Cosmic Rays and Particle Physics from Ansaldo. As well as the four vide the necessary support for the once used to overlap considerably, from Noell, CERN has also ordered construction of the LEP detectors. but since the advent of high energy two from Ansaldo, and one each After leaving CERN in 1988, he accelerators have tended to di­ from Elin in and Alsthom- represented retired personnel in verge slightly, isolating their re- Jeumont in France. CERN's Staff Association.

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