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People and Things People and things Herwig Schopper (left), CERN's Director General from 1981-88, at his 70th birthday symposium at CERN, with parity violation pioneerCS. Wu. other end, instead spiralling in ever- decreasing circles. Concluding, Herwig Schopper looked back with satisfaction at 50 years in physics and said, "Being a physicist is a privilège, especially in the second half of this century; it is a great privilège to live through such exciting developments -1 moved up an order of magnitude every ten years orso." On people At Brookhaven, Tom Kirk became Associate Director for High Energy and Nuclear Physics on 3 October. He succeeds Mel Schwartz, who has returned to academia as the 1.1. Rabi Prof essor of Physics at Columbia University, and Larry Trueman, who opment of relations with China, which has been acting in an intérim capac- Herwig Schopper 70 Schopper visited in 1977 and where ity. he helped set up the first interna­ tional collaboration in physics after Bernard Frois of Saclay receives the Herwig Schopper, CERN Director the cultural révolution. Quoting a prestigious Silver Medal of the General from 1981-1988, celebrated Chinese proverb, he said, "remember French Centre national de la recher­ his 70th birthday in style with a star- the people who dug the well when che scientifique (CNRS). studded symposium at CERN on 15 you drink the water". September. In his introduction, C.S. Wu spoke on how her pioneer Director General Chris Llewellyn 1957 results on parity violation in Dirac medal Smith underlined Schopper's water- beta-decay were supported by two shed rôle in overseeing the approval experiments, one of which involved On 4 October, Frank Wilczek of and construction of CERN's LEP Schopper, and Chris Fabjan de- Princeton's Institute of Advanced électron-positron collider and the scribed Schopper's part in the Study was awarded the 1994 Dirac development of the plans for its development of hadron energy Medal of the Institute for Advanced expérimental programme. measurement, a technique which he Study, Trieste, for his theoretical Opening the programme, Sam Ting believes "has blossomed into one of contributions, particularly his rôle in recalled Schopper's pre-CERN rôle the most ubiquitous and versatile the discovery of the phenomenon of at DESY, where according to Ting, expérimental methods". 'asymptotic freedom' in non-Abelian he showed great leadership skills in US accelerator pioneer Robert gauge théories - when the interaction being the only Director of DESY who, Wilson described the évolution of between two quarks becomes weak in addition to his many other accom- machine physics responsibilities in at short distances. plishments, managed to improve the major projects. canteen. Former LEP project director Emilio His other achievements include the Picasso underlined Schopper's rôle Harry Bingham 1931 -94 establishment of international col­ in pushing LEP construction, and laborations; He Sheng Chen high- described his own worry that the 27- Berkeley experimentalist Harry lighted Schopper's part in the devel­ kilometre tunnel would never meet its Bingham died on 24 August, âge 63. 22 CERN Courier, November 1994 People and things Ready for testing is a magnet string of two A spécial symposium at CERN on 28 Septem- superconducting dipoles and one quadrupole ber marked the 65th birthday of distinguished for CERN's LHC proton collider. CERN theorist André Martin. Born in Chicago, he was a colourful hosted his final physics collaboration year, twin conférences (one on personality, keen sportsman and meeting with a téléphone link from Particle Physics and one on inveterate poker player who enli- his bedside. Astrophysics : from the Sun to the vened many physics meetings. His Universe, Fundamental issues in initial research career at CalTech, the Astrophysics) will be held in Saigon - Ecole Polytechnique in Paris and LeCroy grant Ho Chi Minh City from 22 to 28 CERN revolved around the develop- October 1995. Thèse dates are ment and exploitation of heavy liquid US instrumentation specialists chosen as there will be a full éclipse bubble chambers. He joined the LeCroy Corp. of Chestnut Ridge, in South Vietnam on Wednesday Berkeley faculty in 1964 and partici- New York, in collaboration with October 24. It is hoped that this pated in experiments at several Jorway Corp and Y aie University, exceptional event will underline major research centres as well as have been awarded a Small Busi­ efforts being made to attract young being an enthusiastic teacher. ness Technology Transfer Grant by students to fundamental science. In For several summers he was Acting the US Department of Energy to former socialist countries making the Chairman of Physics at Berkeley, develop a compatible extension of transition to a free market economy, and received national attention in the CAMAC standard électronles many good students are tempted 1989 by offering a Berkeley position interface to increase data acquisition towards initially more lucrative to the prominent Chinese physicist speeds eventually to 60 Mbytes/ careers. and suspended university administra- second. tor Fang Lizhi. His last visit to CERN was in 1993 Meetings for the meeting organized to mark 40 Physics in Vietnam years of world bubble chamber achievement, where he gave a This summer, a school on particle The SERC School on Cohérence and typically candid talk - Vld and new, physics at Dalat, on the highlands Corrélations in Modem Optics and big and small, European and Ameri­ about 300 km from Saigon, attracted Quantum Physics will be held from can; contrasts in styles'. It was typical 30 vietnamese physicists and seven 23 January to 10 February 1995 at of his courage and fortitude that he European physicists (lecturers). Next the Institute of Mathematical Science, CERN Courier, November 1994 23 People and things Japanese Minister for Science and Technology Makiko Tanaka with Director General Chris Llewellyn Smith at CERN on 22 September. At the European Particle Accelerator Confér­ ence in London earlier this year (September, page 11) Roger Cashmore of Oxford admires a Virtual reality' computer simulation. (Photo DRAL) Madras, India. Further information from Khan S A Khan, Publicity Secretary SERC School, E-Mail: optics @ imsc. émet, in The Third International Winter School "QCD: Perturbative and Non- Perturbative Topics" will be held at St.Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Russia, from February 26 - March 11, 1995. Lectures will be at the postgraduate and young postdoc level and include such topics as low x physics, colour cohérence phenom- ena, confinement, effective chiral théories, two-body Systems, cohérent multi-particle production, instantons, etc. Among the lecturers are Profs. Anselm, Bailin, Diakonov, Dokshitzer, Eides, Lipatov, Migdal, Mueller, Polyakov and others. Further infor­ mation and applications from maxpol @ In pi. spb. su Books received Superconductivity, by V.L. Ginzburg and E.A Andryushin; Physics of New Methods of Charged Particle Accélération - Collective Effects in Dense Charged Particle Ensembles, byA.G. Bonch- Osmolovsky; Selected Papers, with Commentary, of T.H.R. Skyrme - World Scientific Séries in 20th Century Physics, Volume 3, Edited by Gerald E. Brown. Ail three published by World Scien­ tific, Singapore, 1994. After receiving an honorary doctor of science at Southampton University, UK, distinguished CERN theorist John Ellis (right) is applauded by University Chancellor Lord Jellicoe. 24 CERN Courier, November 1994 j Royal Holloway kAAAAA ^ University of London ^ _ _ _^ _^ _ EU Fellowship A unique advertising médium (HCM Programme) for scientif ic and technical equipment Particle Physics Applications are invited for 2 one-year postdoctcral fellowships in expérimental particle physics. Applicants CERN COURIER is the internationally recognized must be nationals of an EU member state (excluding the news magazine of high energy physics. Distributed to UK), or an associated state, must be aged under 35 and ail the major Laboratories of the world active in this should hold a PhD or équivalent qualification. dynamic field of fundamental research, it is compul­ sive reading for scientists, engineers, administrators, The particle physics group at Royal Holloway is a information média and buyers. Written in simple member of the ALEPH collaboration at LEP and the ATLAS experiment planned for the LHC, and has language and published simultaneously in English recently joined the BaBar collaboration at PEP-II. At and French it has become the natural communication ALEPH we took part in the construction of the médium for particle physicists in Europe, the USA, electromagnetic calorimeter and were responsible for Russia, Japan - everywhere where the fundamental the design and building for the Level 2 trigger. We are nature of matter is studied. currently working on the analy'sis of the LEP I data from ALEPH and plan that one of the fellows will join this Published from CERN, Switzerland, it also has programme. We are members of the CERN R&D project correspondents in the Laboratories of Argonne, RD11 (EAST) developing second level trigger Systems Berkeley, Brookhaven, Cornell, Fermi, Los Alamos for LHC. This work is continuing for the ATLAS and Stanford in the USA, Darmstadt, DESY and experiment where we are also involved in physical Karlsruhe in Germany, Orsay and Seclay in France, studies. The second fellow will become part of this Frascati in Italy, Rutherford in the U.K., PSI in programme. The group is well-supported by the UK Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council and Switzerland, Serpukhov, Dubna and Novosibirsk in the Collège and has good facilities for both Computing Russia, KEK in Japan, TRIUMF in Canada and and electronics development. Beijing in China. Royal Holloway is part of the University of London and The annual expenditure on high energy physics in is situated on a pleasant campus about 30 km west of Europe is about 1800 million Swiss francs. The the centre of London near to Heathrow airport and the expenditure in the USA is about $ 1100 million.
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