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APPOINTMENTS & AWARDS EPS introduces new Lise Meitner prize The Nuclear Physics Board of the European Physical Society has created a new prize - called the Use Meitner prize - for nuclear science with sponsorship from the company Eurisys Mesures.The award consists of a medal, a diploma and €5000 in cash. The first recipients, for the year 2000, are Peter Armbruster and Gottfried Muenzenberg of GSI in Darmstadt and Yuri TsOganessian of the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions in for their unique work over a long period on the synthesis of heavy elements, which has led to the discovery of elements in the nuclear charge region 102 to 105 (dubnium), as well as bohrium (107), hassium (108) and The European Physical Society's new Lise Meitner Prize for Nuclear Science goes to (left to meitnerium (109). right) Peter Armbruster (GSI, Darmstadt), Gottfried Muenzenberg (GSI, Darmstadt) and Yuri These discoveries involved extensive Ts Oganessian (Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions, Dubna) for their synthesis of new developments of experimental techniques and heavy elements. the use of a specific reaction mechanism - the "cold" fusion of two heavy nuclei. of the new nuclei. Europhysics meeting on East-West Measurements of these elements provide an The prize was given to Peter Armbruster at Collaboration in Nuclear Science in important cornerstone to the concept of the XXXIX International Winter Meeting on Sandanski, Bulgaria, in May. deformed shells in nuclei, the existence of Nuclear Physics in Bormio in January.The See "http://fidabs.ing.unibs.it/eps-npb/" which is responsible for the increased stability other two laureates will be honoured at the and "http://www.eurisysmesures.com/".

Willis Lamb of Arizona, who shared the 1955 Chattopadhyay came to Berkeley in 1974 as Nobel Prize for Physics with Polycarp Kusch for a graduate student. After receiving his PhD in their precision measurements of, respectively, 1982, he spent two years at CERN before hydrogen spectroscopy and the electron's returning to Berkeley, where he made major magnetic moment, receives the US National contributions to national and international Medal of Science 2000 "for his towering projects. In 1987 he became leader of contributions to classical and quantum Berkeley Laboratory's Accelerator and Fusion theories of laser radiation and quantum Research Division's Exploratory Studies optics".These measurements showed the first Group, establishing the Center for Beam indications of the tiny effects due to quantum Physics in December 1991. Under his electrodynamics. leadership, CBP researchers have been at the forefront of such technological breakthroughs Alain Connes of the Institut des Hautes as femtosecond X-ray generation and laser Etudes Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette, and plasma beam acceleration. the College de France, Paris, is awarded the At Jefferson Lab, Chattopadhyay will oversee prestigious Crafoord prize, which is adminis­ research and development as well as tered by the Royal Swedish Academy of operations of the main continuous electron Sciences, for "his penetrating work on the beam accelerator facility (CEBAF), plus the theory of operator algebras and for having Swapan Chattopadhyay, previously head of lab's free electron laser facility, light sources been a founder of non-commutative geome­ Berkeley's Center for Beam Physics, programme, applied superconductivity and try".This has provided powerful methods for becomes Associate Director of the Jefferson superconducting radiofrequency R&D centre, theoretical physics.The prize will be presented Lab, Newport News, Virginia. and its cryogenics and engineering by the King of Sweden on 26 September. programmes. He will also hold an appoint­ Associate Director of the Thomas Jefferson ment as the Governor's Distinguished CEBAF Swapan Chattopadhyay, previously head of National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) in Professor of SURA (Southeastern Universities Berkeley's Center for Beam Physics, becomes Newport News, Virginia. Research Association).

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significant and continuing contributions in the superconducting electronics as a researcher, Super-awards field of superconductive electronics, both as a educator and mentor, in particular for directing researcher and as an R&D manager, including numerous innovative research projects in The Council of Superconductivity of the the invention of the superconductive Quantum superconductive device and circuit concepts, influential Institute of Electrical and Interference Device (SQUID), which resulted in for mentoring many students who have become Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has recently the development of ultrasensitive magnetic the core of the US activity in superconductive established an IEEE award for continuing and sensors and is the basic building block for electronics, for his co-authorship of the stan­ significant contributions in the field of applied superconductive digital technology, for dard textbook on superconductive devices, for superconductivity for contributions "to the inventing numerous other superconducting serving as the founding editor-in-chief of the field...over more than 20 years, based on analogue and digital circuits and subsystems, IEEE Transactions on Applied novel and innovative concepts". and for outstanding insight in promoting the Superconductivity and for his enthusiastic The current recipients are: use of superconducting electronics in scien­ support to establishing, and frequently chair­ David Larbalestier, Wisconsin, Tor signifi­ tific, military and commercial applications". ing, various conferences, workshops and study cant and continuing contributions in the field John Stekly, retired, formerly Intermagnetics groups promoting the growth of the of superconductive materials: leading to the General Corporation, Tor significant and superconductive electronics technology". identification of microstructural features that continuing contributions in the field of Martin Wilson, Oxford Instruments, Tor resulted in dramatic increases in the superconducting magnet systems, and significant and continuing contributions in the superconducting critical current density: in devices, in particular the pioneering work in field of large-scale superconductive applica­ particular, for the identification and optimiza­ understanding, quantifying and applying the tions, in particular the pioneering research tion of magnetic flux pinning centres and the engineering thermal stability requirements of leading to the fundamental principles of identification and minimization of deleterious superconducting magnets operating in boiling superconducting magnet design and execu­ defects in superconducting wires and tapes". liquid helium, known as the Stekly Criterion". tion, for his documentation and explanation of Martin Nisenoff, retired, formerly US Naval Kyoji Tachikawa Jokai, Tor significant and these concepts and calculations pertaining Research Laboratory, Tor long and continuous continuing contributions in the field of to, for example, magnetization, minimum service to the superconductivity community as superconducting materials: in particular, the quench energy, quench development, etc, a scientist, program manager, activist and pioneering research in innovative and concisely presented in his book on supercon­ statesman; elected three times to Applied intelligent materials processing techniques for ducting magnets, and in recognition of his Superconductivity Conference board, long­ the formation of superconducting wires and leadership of outstanding forefront scientific standing member of IEEE's Committee on tapes, leading to the development of new and engineering teams involved in applied Superconductivity; three-decade career span­ high-field superconductors that incorporate superconductivity in research labs and indus­ ning activities in Josephson junctions, SQUID useful intermetallic compounds". try, for example, the development of applications, HTS filters and cryocoolers". Theodore Van Duzer, Berkeley, Tor significant Rutherford cable and the Helios synchrotron Arnold Silver, retired, formerly TRW, Tor and continuing contributions in the field of X-ray source".

The prize for 2000 is Pontecorvo prize awarded to Academician Georgi Zatsepin and Vladimir Gavrin (both from the Institute for Nuclear Research, ) for their Going outstanding contributions to research using the gallium germanium method at the Baksan Neutrino Observatory. The prize, administered by the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, near Moscow, to work was awarded during the January session of JINR Scientific Council. In even-numbered years, the prize is awarded to Russian physi­ cists only. at CERN?

Bruno Pontecorvo Prize 2000 laureate Vladimir Gavrin (right) with Dmitri Shirkov, jury chairman and honorary director of the For information, contact Joint Institute for Nuclear Research Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Users.Office@.ch Physics. (YuTumanov.)

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MEETINGS

This year's IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, including the Symposium on Nuclear Power Systems, will take place in San Diego, , on 4-10 November. New this year is the International Workshop on Room-Temperature Semiconductor X- and Gamma-Ray Detectors.The abstract submis­ sion deadlines are 20 April (NSS, MIC, SNPS) and 15 June (Workshop). For more details see "http://www.nss-mic.org/".

The 29th SLAC Cummer Institute, entitled Exploring Electroweak Symmetry Breaking' will take place on 13-24 August at Stanford, California. For more information contact: Maura Chatwell, e-mail "[email protected]. edu", tel.+1 650-926-4931.

Japan and Russia took a historic step on 27 November when Hirotaka Sugawara, director- The 2001 CERN School of Computing, general of 's KEK laboratory, and Vladimir Kadyshevsky, director of the international organized by CERN in collaboration with the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, near Moscow, signed the first co­ Institute of Physics of the University of operation agreement in physics involving Russia-Japan relations. It places particular Cantabria, Spain, will be held on 16-29 emphasis on theory, establishing the Tomonaga-Bogolyubov programme in honour of two September in Santander. It is aimed at post­ of the countries' most famous sons. Wider cultural aspects were not ignored - the graduate students and research workers with agreement promotes broader contacts between the home towns of KEK and JINR - Tsukuba a few years experience in , and Dubna respectively. At the signature of the agreement were (left to right) T Inagaki, KEK computing or related fields. Special themes Particle and Nuclear Studies director S Yamada, KEK director-general H Sugawara, JINR this year are computer architecture: software director-general V Kadyshevsky and JINR Nuclear Laboratory deputy director A Kurilin. and hardware; fistributed real-time systems; high throughput distributed systems; and principles of distributed databases. For addi­ tional information see "http://www.cern.ch/ CSC/".

A Workshop on Gravity and Particle Physics will be held at DESY, Hamburg, on 9-12 October. It will cover strings and D-branes; large extra dimensions and phe­ nomenology; cosmology and astrophysics; gravitational waves; and new phenomena. It will be organized by D Luest (Humboldt University Berlin). For more information see "http://www.desy.de/desy-th/workshop. 01/index.html".

Frontiers in Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology: a EuroConference on Neutrinos in the Universe will take place in Lenggries, near Munich, on 29 September to 4 October.The conference chairman is Georg G Raffelt (MPI fur Physik, Munich).The confer­ At CERN on 19 February, Finnish Minister of Education Maija-Liisa Rask (kneeling centre) ence is part of the 2001 Euresco Programme. hears about progress for the giant CMS experiment at the LHC. For more details see "http://www.esf.org/ euresco/01/pc01142a.htm".

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Alexander Baldin celebrates 75 years 1

Laboratory directors and other notables at the DESY laboratory, Hamburg, on 8 February gathered for a meeting of the International Committee for Future Accelerators.

The Second International Workshop on Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, will Atomic Collisions and Atomic be held nearYalta in Crimea on 22-29 Spectroscopy with Slow Antiprotons September.The subjects are elastic and dif- (PBAR01) will take place on 14-15 fractive scattering of hadrons and nuclei; September at Aarhus University, Denmark.The deep inelastic scattering and multiparticle aim is to present initial scientific progress at dynamics; duality, strings and confinement; CERN's new antiproton decelerator.The first collective properties of the strongly interacting such meeting was held atTsurumi, Kanagawa, matter; astroparticle physics; heavy flavours Japan, in July 1999.The majortopics of the and hadron spectroscopy; the standard model At 75 - Alexander Baldin. workshop will be spectroscopy of antiprotonic and beyond; advances in quantum field atoms; interaction of slow antiprotons with theory; new physics at future colliders; beam On 26 February 2001, Academician Alexander matter - stopping power, channeling, etc; physics; and new detector technique.The Baldin, the distinguished Russian physicist excitation and ionization of atoms, molecules preliminary list of lecturers includes whose name is widely known to the world and clusters with slow antiprotons; antihydro- VN Bolotov,LDFaddeev,VSFadin, scientific community, celebrated his the 75th gen; and formation processes for antiprotonic MI Gorenstein, R Jackiw, L LJenkovszky, birthday. atoms. For information see "http://www.ifa. A B Kaidalov, E A Kuraev, L N Lipatov, Baldin has contributed greatly to the au.dk/pbar01/". DV Shirkov,AASIavnovand HTerazawa. development of the physics of electromagnetic Applications should be sent to "crimea@gluk. hadron interactions, the physics of the atomic The next Crimean conference on New org" or Crimea-2001, BITR Kiev 03143, nucleus and particle physics. He is a pioneer Trends in High-Energy Physics, co-orga Ukraine; fax +380 44 2665998; tel. of relativistic nuclear physics, the author of nized by the Bogolyubov Institute for 2669123; "http://www.gluk.org/hadrons/ several scientific discoveries, the initiator of Theoretical Physics in Kiev and the Joint crimea2001". the construction of novel superconducting accelerators of charged particles, and the Croatian Minister of visionary and leader of the wide scientific Science and programme of the accelerator complex of the Technology Hrvoje Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Kraljeviç (left) and Dubna, near Moscow, including the unique Deputy Minister for superconducting Nuclotron. International For his numerous scientific achievements, Cooperation Davor he was awarded the Lenin and State prizes of Butkovic at CERN on the USSR. For 30 years he headed the JINR 13 February. Laboratory of High Energies. He is now scientific supervisor at this laboratory.

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Dominique Vautherin 1941-2000

Dominique Vautherin passed away last He extended his approach to dynamical December at the age of 59. His work, processes and the description of large-ampli­ characterized by breadth, clarity and tude motions. In this way he contributed originality, profoundly marked the field of significantly to the understanding of the nuclear physics. A brilliant nuclear theorist, he relations between individual and collective had a major influence on the international aspects of nuclear stucture - a recurrent community during the past 30 years. theme of the physics of many-body systems. Born in 1941, Vautherin studied at the Ecole His interest in astrophysical problems led Polytechnique in 1961-1963. Admitted to the him to seminal contributions to the thermo­ CNRS in 1964, he obtained his doctorate at dynamics of nuclear matter at high density Paris-Sud in 1969. He spent most of his career (neutron stars) and high temperature (super- at the Division de PhysiqueTheorique of the novae). He made Jhe first calculation of the Institut de Physique Nucléaire at Orsay, where he Dominique Vautherin 1921-2000. vaporization temperature of nuclei and stud­ was director in 1991-1995. A visiting scientist ied the influence of the temperature on the at MIT in 1970-1972 and at the Lawrence deformed nuclei and opened the way to a nuclear collective excitations. Berkeley Laboratory in 1976-1977, he made coherent and unified description of all nuclei, In recent years he was mainly interested in frequent visits abroad. In 1976-1991 he had light or heavy, spherical or deformed, stable or the properties of the quark-gluon plasma. teaching responsibilities as Maitre de unstable. It then became possible to With his collaborators he elaborated a Conferences at the Ecole Polytechnique. He reproduce and to predict, solely from variational approach, leading to approximate received the Prix Langevin and the Grand Prix Skyrme's interaction and throughout the projected solutions of the gauge field Jean Ricard of the French Physical Society, and periodic table, a large number of nuclear equations. had just received an award from the Alexander properties, such as binding energies, proton His constant cheerfulness, sense of von Humboldt-Stiftung. From 1999 he was and neutron densities, single-particle spectra, humour, gentle sarcasm and generosity were Chairman of the Board of Directors of the equilibrium deformations and (by application proverbial.To all of his French and foreign European Centre forTheoretical Studiesjrento. of external fields) binding energies as a func­ friends, colleagues and students, it is difficult In 1969-1970, together with David Brink, tion of deformation, fission barriers, etc. While to imagine that they will no longer benefit Vautherin recognized the value of Skyrme's at MIT, Vautherin also developed a density from his deep insights and continual interaction for the description of nuclear matrix expansion that linked Skyrme's inter­ enthusiasm. properties. He soon extended this approach to action with realistic nucleon-nucleon forces. Marcel Veneroni,IN2P3. Aleksandr Chudakov 1921-2001

Aleksandr Chudakov, outstanding Russian pioneering experiment at Katsively, Crimea. scientist in the field of cosmic-ray physics, From the mid-1960s he headed the design passed away on 25 January at the age of 79. and construction of the Baksan underground Chudakov was born on 16 June 1921 and scintillation telescope (one of the first large graduated from Moscow State University in multipurpose facilities for underground 1948. In 1953 he confirmed experimentally physics, which was put into operation in the existence of the transition radiation 1978). First-class results in astroparticle predicted by V L Ginzburg and I M Frank in physics and cosmic rays were obtained with 1945. In 1955 he predicted the effect of this instrument, which is still in operation. decreasing ionization losses for narrow Aleksandr Chudakov was one of the leaders electron-positron pairs, which was later of cosmic-ray science of his time. Being for referred to as the Chudakov effect. some time a chairman of the IUPAP Cosmic Phenomena similar to this effect are now Ray Commission, he was known and highly found in quantum chromodynamics. respected by the community all over the In the 1950s Chudakov carried out a series Aleksandr Chudakov 1921-2001. world. His death is a great loss to his friends of experiments investigating cosmic rays and colleagues. outside the atmosphere with rockets and the Soviet Sputnik flight. first satellites, which resulted in his discovery In 1961, with GTZatsepin, Chudakov • Distinguished CERN physicist Douglas (in collaboration with S N Vernov) of the suggested the air Cherenkov method for Morrison died on 25 February. A full tribute Earth's radiation belts during the third gamma-ray astronomy and carried out a will appear in the next issue.

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At CERN, admiring the Japanese-financed decelerating radiofrequency quadrupole (RFQD) for theASACUSA low- energy antiproton experiment, are (left to right) Masaki Hori of Tokyo, John Eades of CERN, Japanese KEK laboratory director-general Hirotaka Sugawara, Werner Pirkl of the CERN RFQ team and CERN accelerator director Kurt Hubner.

Luis Masperi (left) of Rio de Janiero and director of Centro Latino Americano de Fisica (CLAF) signs an agreement for a programme of CERN-CLAF physics schools in Latin America. Signing the agreement for CERN is research director Roger Cash more, and looking on are CERN advisor for non- member state matters John Ellis (left) and CERN physics schools director Egil Lillestol. The inaugural school will take place in Itacuruca, Brazil, in May. Together in Paris to help celebrate the 60th birthday of distinguished theorist John lliopoulos were the three architects of the At CERN, en route to a famous 1970 Glashow-lliopoulos-Maiani meeting at DESY (see (GIM) model. Top, left to right: Luciano p37), director Maiani (now CERN director-general), John Michael Witherell lliopoulos and (bottom) Sheldon Glashow. inspects a module of Until the GIM model, electroweak the hadronic unification only worked for weakly calorimeter for the CMS interacting particles (leptons). The GIM experiment at CERN's model showed how it could work also for LHC. Fermilab is a quarks, provided that there were four of major staging post for them. However, only three quarks were the vital US known at the time, lliopoulos is also one of contributions to the the architects of the Bouchiat- lliopoulos- CMS experiment. Meyer (BIM) mechanism for the cancellation of lepton-quark anomalies.

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