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1999 American Physical Society Prizes and Awards People 1999 American Physical Society Prizes and Awards Among the 1999 American Physical Society •The Nicholson Medal to Vitaly Ginzburg of oreaux of Los Alamos, "for extensive contribu­ Prizes and Awards are: the Russian Academy of Sciences, "for coura­ tions to precision measurements science, •The Hans A Bethe Prize to Edwin Salpeter geously supporting democratic reforms in the especially searches for a permanent electric of Cornell, "for wide-ranging contributions to former Soviet Union, and for leading the Soviet dipole moment of the neutron and atoms, nuclear and atomic physics and astrophysics, scientific community in humane directions". measurements of atomic parity violation, and including the triple-alpha reaction, electron •The Lars Onsager Prize to C N Yang of SUNY, tests of spatial symmetries and quantum screening of nuclear reactions, charged-cur- Stony Brook, "for fundamental contributions to mechanics, including observation of the vac­ rent emission of neutrinos, and the form of the statistical mechanics and the theory of quan­ uum Casimir Effect". stellar initial mass function". tum fluids, including: the circle theorem, •The J J Sakurai Prize to Mikhail Shifman •The Joseph A Burton Forum Award to Free­ off-diagonal long-range order and flux quanti­ and Arkady Vainshtein of Minnesota and man J Dyson of Princeton's Institute for zation, Bose-Einstein condensation, and one- Valentine Zakharov of Michigan, "for funda­ Advanced Studies, "for his thoughtful, elegant and two-dimensional statistical mechanical mental contributions to the understanding of and widely published writings regarding the models". non-perturbative QCD, non-leptonic weak impact of diverse science and technology •The George E Pake Prize to H B G Casimir decays, and the analytic properties of super- developments on critical societal issues and of Philips, "for excellence as a leader of indus­ symmetric gauge theories". on fundamental questions for humankind". trial research at Royal Philips Electronics and •The Arthur Schawlow Prize to Carl Wieman •The Dannie Heinemann Prize to Barry M for fundamental contributions to the founda­ of JILA and Colorado, "for pioneering work on McCoy of SUNY, Stony Brook, Tai Tsun Wu of tions of quantum mechanics and solid-state the production and study of Bose-Einstein Harvard and Alexander Zamolodchikov of physics". condensation in a dilute atomic vapour, which Rutgers, "for their groundbreaking and pene­ •The W K H Panofsky Prize to Edward has become a major testing ground for trating work on classical statistical Thorndike of Rochester, "for a leading role in macroscopic quantum phenomena, and mechanics, integrable models, and conformal milestone advances in the study of the b quark quantum statistical mechanics". field theories". with the CLEO collaboration; particularly the •The Robert R Wilson Prize to Robert Palmer •The Lilienfeld Prize to Stephen Hawking of discovery and measurement of b semileptonic of Brookhaven, "for his many diverse contribu­ Cambridge, "for boldness and creativity in decay, the b to s Penguin decay process, and tions and innovations in particle accelerator gravitational physics, best illustrated by the the b to u weak transition. In addition, his and detector technologies, including super­ prediction that black holes should emit black- contributions led to substantial improvements conducting magnets, longitudinal stochastic body radiation and evaporate, and for the in understanding the flavour sector of the cooling, bubble chambers and neutrino beam special gift of making abstract ideas accessi­ Standard Model and the Cabibbo-Kobayashi- lines, crab crossing in lepton colliders, laser ble and exciting to experts, generalists, and Maskawa matrix of weak quark couplings". acceleration, and for recent leadership of the the public alike". •The Francis Pipkin Award to Stephen Lam- muon collider concept". DESY Director Bjoern Wiik has been made Honorary Professor at the Institute of Nuclear Physics, Krakow, Poland. The celebration took place on 9 January during a special meeting of the Scientific Council during the 5th Cracow Epiphany Conference "On the Electron-Positron Colliders". The new UK Minister of Science Lord Sainsbury (second from right) on a visit Honorary Professor to CERN on 15 January hears about preparations for the ATLAS gave a lecture on the experiment at the LHC collider from ATLAS spokesman Peter Jenni superconducting (right). With the Minister were CERN Director General Luciano Maiani TESLA project. (left) and CERN Director for Collider Programmes Roger Cashmore. CERN Courier March 1999 35 High-Tech Superconductors produced by a world leading industrial Group Beam Charge Monitor Measures with accuracy : • The charge of single pulses from femtosecond width up Resolution < 0.5 pC • Pulsed beam up to 10 MHz Resolution 3nA rms • Long pulses of several thousands micropulses Dynamic range > 104 Excellent absolute calibration: ±2% Hundreds of successful installations. 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The previous conference In burg, Germany from 17-20 May, covering both the series was held in Williamsburg, USA, in accelerator physics and spin physics in polar­ 1996. See "http://www.tsl.uu.se/panic99" or Connectors ized scattering.The main topics include the e-mail "[email protected]". NEW CERAMIC SEALING TECHNOLOGY machine physics aspects of attaining high- • The second conference on New Develop­ ALLOWS US TO CREATE CUSTOM energy polarized proton beams, developments ments on Photodetection will be held in DESIGNS THAT MEET YOUR SPECIFIC of high-intensity polarized sources and high- Beaune (France) from June 21-25. Like the TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS. energy polarimetry, and physics studies for a first one held three years ago, the conference polarized HERA and RHIC. Secretariat: H will address: photodetection of visible, X and Haertel/heraspin, DESY; "[email protected]"; gamma radiation by: photomultipliers, solid- "http://www.desy.de/heraspin". state devices, hybrid photodetectors and • The 6th Topical Seminar in a series devoted associated electronics in: high-energy to experimental and theoretical results in physics, nuclear sciences, astrophysics, high-energy particle physics and astrophysics medecine and biology. Information from will take place in San Miniato alTodesco, Italy, "http://WWW.in2p3.fr/Beaune99/". from 17-21 May.This year's topic is on "Neu­ • An International Workshop on the Lorentz trino and Astro-Particle Physics". Attendance Group, CPT, and Neutrinos will be held at the is by invitation and will be limited to around Universidad Autonoma de Zacatecas, Mexico, 150 physicists. Information from: F-L Navarria, from 23-26 June. Participation will be by Dip. di Fisica, V.le Berti-Pichat 6/2,1-40127 invitation only. ContactVV Dvoeglazov, Bologna. E-mail "[email protected]", "pelfer@fi. Escuela de Fisica, UAZ,Apartado Postal C- infn.it", "[email protected]". "http://www.bo. 580, Zacatecas, 98068, Zac, Mexico.Tel. (52 infn.it/sminiato/sminiato99.html". 492) 4 13 14. Fax (52 492) 4 02 86. E-mail • On 31 December, C N Yang retired as Ein­ " va I e ri@ca n te ra. red u az. mx". stein Professor and Director of the Institute for • The XXVII SLAC Summer Institute on Particle Theoretical Physics of the State University of Physics will be held on 7-16 July, at Stanford, New York at Stony Brook. To mark this occa­ California.The theme of this year's Institute is sion and to celebrate his many achievements, CP Violation In and Beyond the Standard a symposium entitled "Symmetries and Model. Inquiries should be directed to the Reflections" will be held at Stony Brook on SLAC Summer Institute, Stanford Linear Accel­ May 21-22. More details can be found at erator Center, RO. 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