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Document1 8/8/06 10:44 Page 1 CERN Courier May 2013 Faces & Places A WARDS Engineering prize honours internet and Web pioneers Five engineers whose work, beginning in the 1970s, led to the internet and the World Wide Web have together won the inaugural Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. Robert Kahn, Vinton Cerf, Louis Pouzin, Tim Berners-Lee and Marc Andreessen were announced on 18 March as the winners at the Royal Academy of Engineering in London. Kahn, Cerf and Pouzin receive the award for their contributions to the protocols that make up the fundamental architecture of the internet. French computer scientist Pouzin invented the datagram and designed an early packet communications network known as CYCLADES in the early 1970s. His work was broadly used by Americans Kahn and Cerf in the development of TCP/ IP. Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web at CERN in 1989 and American Marc Andreessen wrote the Mosaic browser that is credited with popularizing the Web. 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The telescope of the Standard Model, turned 80 last was a standing ovation for Kibble that lasted has already provided unprecedented views December. To celebrate this milestone and several minutes. ALMA telescope of the cosmos using only a portion of its full Kibble’s extraordinary contributions to In the evening, Nobel laureate Steven array (CERN Courier November 2011 p13). theoretical physics, a one-day symposium Weinberg gave a stunning keynote The ALMA array consists of 54 antennas was held on 13 March at Imperial College, presentation to a capacity audience of 700. In the vast Atacama Desert of the Chilean with 12-m dishes and 12 smaller 7-m dishes, London. With no visual props, he talked eruditely Andes, an offi cial ceremony marked which work together as a single telescope. Kibble has made seminal contributions to on symmetry breaking and its role in the inauguration of the Atacama Large The signals from the individual antennas the understanding of the mass-generating elementary particle physics. He emphasized Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) are brought together and processed by the mechanism for elementary particles via the role played by the three 1964 papers by (CERN Courier October 2007 p23). More “ALMA correlator” supercomputer. The symmetry breaking. Indeed, his profound Robert Brout, François Englert, Peter Higgs, than 500 people attended the 13 March 66 antennas can be arranged in different papers of 1964 and 1967 provided key Tom Kibble, centre, with from left to right, Gerald Guralnik, Carl Hagen and Kibble event, which signalled the completion of all confi gurations, where the maximum foundations for the Standard Model and Jim Virdee, John Hassard, Tariq Ali, Peter himself. He also emphasized the signifi cant major systems of the giant telescope and the distance between each one can vary from inspired the search for the Higgs boson. He Dornan, John Pendry and Jordan Nash. impact of Kibble’s sole-authored 1967 formal transition from a construction project 150 m to 16 km. has also made signifi cant contributions to the (Images: Meilin Sancho, Imperial College.) paper that, among other things, explains the into an observatory. ALMA is a partnership between scientifi c study of the dynamics of symmetry-breaking mechanism whereby the W and Z boson get A select group, including guest of honour organizations and funding bodies in near phase transitions with diverse mass while the photon remains massless. Sebastián Piñera, the President of Chile, had Europe, North America and East Asia, in applications including to structure formation At the banquet, the UK Minister of the opportunity to visit the telescope, located co-operation with the Republic of Chile. in the universe and vortices in helium-3. Science, David Willetts, praised Kibble’s The symposium profi led these and other contributions to fundamental knowledge aspects of Kibble’s long scientifi c career. The and the important ongoing role of Imperial two themes that resonated throughout the College and the UK more generally. Ed day were Kibble’s extraordinary scientifi c Copeland of the University of Nottingham achievements coupled with his humility. and Kibble’s most prolifi c collaborator, The tenor of the meeting was set in the profi led Kibble’s scientifi c leadership, morning by Neil Turok, director of the vision and generosity. Robert Kibble Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, recollected that while his father was doing who described Kibble as “our guru and Weinberg gave the keynote presentation. his amazing work, family life continued as example”. He discussed Kibble’s pioneering normal – although holiday destinations did work on how topological defects might to be seen in the universe, although many strangely seem to coincide with venues for have formed in the early universe during physicists remain hopeful. physics conferences. Frank Close of Oxford symmetry-breaking phase transitions as the The afternoon’s events were concluded University concluded the banquet speeches universe expanded and cooled. Wojciech by Jim Virdee of Imperial College and the by summarizing the signifi cance of Kibble’s Zurek of Los Alamos National Laboratory CMS experiment, who summarized the contributions to the Standard Model, again Guests at the inauguration included the president of Chile, Sebastián Piñera, seen here continued with this theme, surveying epic quest of fi nding the Higgs boson at highlighting how his 1967 paper inspired (second from left) on an ALMA transporter with representatives from the European analogous processes within the context of the LHC.