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CCEJunFaces42-46 15/5/06 16:20 Page 42 FACES AND PLACES AWARDS APS honours particle physicists Left to right: Dan Freedman, Peter van Nieuwenhuizen and Sergio Ferrara, after Left to right: Mikhail Shifman, winner of the Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize; Savas Dimopoulos, the award of the Dannie Heineman Prize. winner of the J J Sakurai Prize; and Yuri Orlov, recipient of the first Andrei Sakharov Prize. The 2006 April meeting of the American constructing supergravity. Mikhail Shifman of accelerator physicist and human-rights Physical Society (APS), held in Dallas, Texas, the University of Minnesota received the Julius activist, was first to receive the new Andrei saw several prizes bestowed on physicists for Edgar Lilienfeld Prize for his contributions to Sakharov Prize for his distinction as a creative outstanding contributions in high-energy strong-interaction physics and supersymmetric physicist and a life-long leader in the defence physics. Sergio Ferrara of CERN, Dan gauge dynamics. Savas Dimopoulos of of human rights. Orlov spent 10 years in a Freedman of the Massachusetts Institute of Stanford University won the J J Sakurai Prize for Soviet gulag. It was largely the solidarity of Technology and Peter van Nieuwenhuizen of his creative ideas on technicolour, international physicists, exemplified by the State University New York, Stony Brook, won supersymmetry and extra dimensions. “Save Yuri Orlov” campaign, that forced the the prestigious Dannie Heineman Prize for Yuri Orlov of Cornell University, a renowned Soviet government to release Orlov in 1986. Two researchers working in nuclear and particle physics have won the 2006 Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in the Robert Aymar wins Physical Sciences. Thomas Glasmacher (top) of Michigan State University is rewarded for developing new sensitive 2006 energy prize methods of studying nuclear structure utilizing Coulomb excitation with fast beams of rare isotopes. Yuri Kovchegov of CERN’s director-general Robert Aymar is one of Ohio State University receives his share of the prize for a three laureates to win the 2006 Global Energy number of ground-breaking contributions to theoretical International Prize for “the development of the understanding of quantum chromodynamics at very high scientific and engineering foundation for the energies and gluon densities. ITER project”. ITER will be built at Cadarache, The Sackler Prize supports dedication to science, originality France, and will show the scientific and and excellence, and is intended for young scientists who have technological feasibility of a full-scale fusion made outstanding and fundamental contributions in their fields. power reactor. The other laureates, who worked Prizes are awarded each year in either physics or chemistry. with Aymar on the project, are former president of the ITER Council, Evgeny Velikhov, and Masaji Yoshikawa, ITER’s former vice-president. At a recent session of the Committee of Plenipotentiaries of Aymar headed ITER from 1994 to 2003. the governments of JINR member states, JINR scientific Founded in 2002 and awarded annually leader Vladimir Kadyshevsky (right) won the Nikolai since 2003, the Global Energy prize is for Nikolaevich Bogoliubov Prize for 2003–2005 for his outstanding theoretical, experimental and outstanding contribution to theoretical physics and the applied research, development, inventions development of new algebraic and geometrical approaches and discoveries in energy development and to the formulation of quantum field theory. He is seen here power generation. Russian president Vladimir with the JINR director, Alexei Sissakian. Putin will make the award in St Petersburg at the G8 summit on 14 June. 42 CERN Courier June 2006 CCEJunFaces42-46 15/5/06 16:21 Page 43 FACES AND PLACES ANNIVERSARY JINR celebrates 50 golden years From left to right: CERN’s director-general Robert Aymar congratulates JINR staff members on the jubilee; IN2P3 director Michel Spiro (left) presents a jubilee medal to JINR’s director Alexei Sissakian; and the performance of the Igor Moisseev folk-dance group at the concert. On 26 March, 50 years to the day since the He gave a brief review of 50 years of activities Order of Friendship of the Socialist Republic of Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) was at JINR and recalled the institute’s outstanding Vietnam. The current director, Sissakian, and established in Dubna, a celebratory joint scientist founders, citing one of them, Polish former director, now JINR scientific leader, meeting of the JINR Committee of academician Henryk Niewodniczanski: “Dubna Vladimir Kadyshevsky, were both awarded the Plenipotentiaries and the Scientific Council is our home and we have every reason to look Polar Star Order of the Republic of Mongolia. took place in the Mir cultural centre. It was forward with optimism.” Andrzej Hrynkiewicz, the plenipotentiary of the attended by delegations from various The president of the Russian Federation government of the Republic of Poland at JINR, countries, numerous honourable guests, and Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Mikhail presented a number of JINR staff with a medal veterans of the institute. Fradkov, as well as leaders of other states, commemorating “50 years of Poland’s In his opening address to the audience, addressed the JINR community with messages membership at JINR”. In addition, leading JINR Andrey Fursenko, plenipotentiary of Russia at of congratulation. The governor of the Moscow scientists from various countries received JINR and the Russian Federation Minister of region, Boris Gromov, also conveyed his honorary awards from the Russian Federation Science and Education, referred to the appreciation through the deputy-chairman of Ministry of Science and Education and the anniversary as “the golden wedding of Dubna the Moscow region government, Peter Katsyv. governor of the Moscow region. and Big Science”. He pointed out that science The jubilee day speeches all showed how the For the 50th anniversary the Committee of is shaped by centres of excellence and activities of JINR are valued highly, not only in Plenipotentiaries decided to name several superiority, and that the international science but in strengthening peace and avenues in the institute’s sites after research centre in Dubna possesses both co-operation among nations. outstanding scientists who have influenced qualities. It allows scientists from different Michel Spiro, director of the Institut scientific activities at JINR: N Amaglobeli countries to follow their challenging studies national de physique nucléaire et de physique (Georgia), A Petrosyants (USSR, Russia), and be proud of their work. Fursenko said that des particules (IN2P3) and of the Department Wang Ganchang (the People’s Republic of the decision of JINR member states to of Nuclear and Particle Physics at the Centre China) and J Theillaque (France). The increase their contributions as of 2007 National de la Recherche Scientifique also committee also named an avenue after CERN indicates their unanimous commitment “to congratulated JINR, as did CERN’s director- to honour 50 years of co-operation with JINR. invest in the future of mankind”. general Robert Aymar on behalf of CERN’s Artistic teams from the Mir cultural centre In his presentation, “JINR: Yesterday, Today, scientific community. Aymar noted the performed between the speeches and awards. Tomorrow”, the current director Alexei landmarks of the long-standing fruitful co- The day ended with a performance of the folk- Sissakian focused on the establishment of JINR operation between the two centres. dance group of Igor Moisseev and a firework as a successful international project in Dubna. During the celebrations, JINR received the display beside the Volga river in the evening. CCEJunFaces42-46 15/5/06 16:21 Page 44 FACES AND PLACES INDUSTRY ALICE Awards honour European companies The third annual ALICE Awards ceremony, held Canberra increased its micro-strip production at CERN in March, recognized three companies when another company was unable to for their exceptional work on the ALICE produce the amount expected. Delivery of the detector. VTT Microelectronics of Finland drift strips is also expected to be on time. received an award for producing the thin bump- The third company to receive an award was bonded ladders (detector arrays, each Note Lund AB of Sweden for manufacturing the comprising 40 960 active cells) for the silicon 4800 front-end cards for the time projection pixel detector in the inner tracking system. The chamber (TPC). These contain the complete company had to overcome a number of The ALICE Awards winners stand with CERN’s read-out chain for amplifying, shaping, technical hurdles: complex and expensive secretary-general, Maximilian Metzger. digitizing, processing and buffering the TPC equipment was procured or upgraded and signals. The board has to process and store processes underwent a detailed study and the pixel, drift and double-sided micro-strip signals with high resolution and range. The careful tuning. The ladders are the thinnest ever detectors required high performance and company first produced two prototypes and produced and mounted on a pixel detector. technological expertise. The most demanding then, together with ALICE TPC engineers, The Belgian company Canberra detector, the silicon drift, was developed in a refined the layout of the board and the Semiconductors NV received its award for joint programme between ALICE and manufacturing procedure. 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