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People and things Magda Ericson - Humboldt Award Don Perkins - Holweck Prize On people Magda Ericson of the Universite de Lyon I receives the Alexander von Humboldt award for her outstanding contributions to intermediate energy physics. Don Perkins of Oxford, and a former Chairman of CERN's Scientific Policy Committee, receives the Holweck Prize awarded jointly by the UK Insti tute of Physics and the Societe frangaise de physique. It recognizes his many important contributions, no tably the earliest (1947) sighting of a cosmic ray pion interaction, and, much later, his incisive contributions to the interpretation of high energy neutrino scattering data. collider in the existing 2.2 kilometre Gell-Mann gives a lunchtime diver PEP tunnel. sion with 'Recording Bird Songs in the Himalayas'. US B factory plans Chalk River superconducting cyclotron fully commissioned Plans for high intensity electron-posi Emilio Zavattini 65 tron collider rings to manufacture B The TASCC superconducting cyclo particles at the Stanford Linear Ac Now passing a long career milestone tron at the Canadian Chalk River celerator Center (SLAC - June 1991, is imaginative CERN experimentalist Laboratory, which supplied its first page 8) and Cornell (July 1991, Emilio Zavattini. After studies in beams back in 1985, has now accel page 8) have encountered budget Rome and initial research work in erated uranium-238 ions to 3 MeV restrictions from the respective US cosmic rays at Testa Grigia, he came per nucleon. Eventually these ions funding agencies (Department of to CERN in 1955, joining the cosmic will be taken to 10 MeV per nucleon. Energy and the National Science ray cloud chamber project before TASCC beams now cover almost the Foundation). moving to early accelerator experi whole Periodic Table, from carbon to Meanwhile Cornell's CESR elec ments. After two years working at uranium. tron-positron ring continues to push Columbia's Nevis synchro-cyclotron for high luminosity (collision rate) and with Leon Lederman on muon cap could eventually allow a glimpse of ture and muonic atoms, he returned CP violation with B particle decays, 46-46 to CERN to help initiate a long and although not nearly as much as the remarkable series of such experi full CESR-B proposal with its asym The Massachusetts Institute of Tech ments using characteristically ingen metric (unequal energy) storage nology (MIT) Laboratory for Nuclear ious instrumentation and techniques. rings. Science celebrates in May its 46th Several times this has resulted in If no new money is available, the anniversary. Why 46? Founded in valuable new limits of precision. idea at SLAC is to go for a 'zero- 1946, this gives a symmetric 46-46 He has also contributed to several budget' B physics solution, slicing event. The programme extends from major hadronic physics experiments, money CERN-style from the normal The Beginnings' (Victor Weisskopf) and worked with Lederman in muon operating budget to build a twin ring to The Future' (Steven Weinberg pair studies at Brookhaven. 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The Miettinen, Finnish Ambassador Antti Hynninen, new Wiggler Lab' was officially inaugurated on and Juha Nummela from Tumo of Turku. Be 6 February. hind them is CERN's flowering magnolia with a dusting of unseasonal late spring snow. (Photo Petra Harms) meson factories, understood as high sion quantum electrodynamics, using intensity proton machines in the Meetings a clever method to look for vacuum 0.5-1 GeV range producing a wide birefringence in a magnetic field, and range of secondary beams. to particle searches by looking for The III International Conference on As well as physics, these machines their effect on light in a magnetic Calorimetry in High Energy Physics have made a significant impact in field. will be held from 29 September-2 Oc other areas, notably beam therapy tober in Corpus Christi, Texas. Fur for cancer. 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The Institute is arranged in Meson factories two separate sessions - a seven-day The index for Volume 31 (1991) of school followed by a three-day topi A new book The Meson Factories' the CERN Courier is now avail cal conference. The final day of the by Torleif Ericson (CERN), Vernon able from Petra Pamblanco, DG topical conference includes a sympo Hughes (Yale) and Darragh Nagle Division, CERN, 1211 Geneva 23, sium on the tau particle and its im (Los Alamos) in the Los Alamos Se Switzerland, fax +4122 782 1906, pact on high energy physics. Regis ries in Basic and Applied Sciences e-mail petra_pamblanco at tration requests to Jane Hawthorne, published by the University of Califor macmail.cern.ch. Please specify SSI Coordinator, SLAC, PO Box nia Press (ISBN 0-520-07549-8) is a whether you require an English or 4349, MS 62, Stanford, California suitably introduced collection of re French index. 94309; e-mail (bitnet) SSI at prints on the physics, accelerators, SLACVM; fax (415) 926-3587. instrumentation and applications of CERN Courier, May 1992 21 P.K. Malhotra (front row, left), with colleagues Atul Gurtu (centre) and Tariq Aziz from Bom bay's Tata Institute, at the opening of the 'To wards the LHC Experimental Programme' meeting at Evian, France, on 5 March. He died two days later. Satio Hayakawa 1923-92 (Photo CERN H112.3.92) tually became the University's Presi est example of his continual activity Satio Hayakawa 1923-92 dent. was to push for more research on While working on cosmic rays, gravitational waves, where he did not Doyen of Japanese physics Satio meson theory and nuclear reactions live to see the outcome.