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People and things Peter Koehler (seated) and Chuck Brown took over leadership of the Fermilab Research Division in October. Peter serves as Research Division Head succeeding John Peoples who has completed a five year term in the office. Peoples now joins the Accelerator Division. Chuck Brown will act as deputy head of the Division. (Photo Fermilab) Wolfgang Gentner Wolfgang Gentner died in Heidel­ berg on 4 September at the age of 74. He was an influential personality in physics for many years and played an important part in the de­ velopment of CERN and in the furtherance of physics in the Fed­ eral Republic of Germany. He was born in Frankfurt (Main) and received his physics degree there before moving to work with Marie Curie in Paris. He returned to Germany in 1935 where he be­ gan his long association with Hei­ delberg University. It was there that he made his first acquaintance with the world of accelerators, being involved in the construction of a Van de Graaff proton machine and in the design of a cyclotron. He gained cyclotron experience on the machine which Joliot had built in Paris. After the war he was nominated Director of the Institute of Physics and became its Chairman in 1968. as his work on critical phenomena, in Freiburg and it was from there He was for many years German Wilson is also widely known for his that his involvement in CERN began. delegate to the CERN Council and research in elementary particle phy­ He was party to the early discus­ from 1972-74 was President of sics. He was Ford Foundation Fel­ sions on the creation of the Labo­ the Council. low at CERN in 1962-63. ratory and then went to CERN to His humour, his influence, his lead the Division responsible for passion for physics and his devotion Among the recipients of this year's construction of the 600 MeV syn­ to the ideals of CERN will be sadly Ernest Orlando Lawrence Memorial chro-cyclotron. It is his signature missed. A memorial ceremony is Awards is Nicholas P. Samios of which tops the page of the logbook planned to be held at CERN early Brookhaven National Laboratory. recording first operation of the ma­ in 1981. The Lawrence awards are made to chine on 1 August 1957. Perhaps US citizens who are early in their even more importantly in those careers and have made recent mer­ On people early days, Professor Gentner itorious contributions to the devel­ played a significant role in formu­ opment, use or control of atomic lating the first physics programmes Sharing the 1980 Wolf Prize in energy. for the SC and for the 28 GeV pro­ Physics with Michael E. Fisher of ton synchrotron. Cornell and Leo Kadanoff of the Richard W. Kadel is the newest In 1960 he moved to head the University of Chicago is Kenneth Wilson Fellow at Fermilab. Prior to Max Planck Institute for Nuclear G. Wilson of Cornell. The prestigious joining Fermilab Kadel spent three Physics in Heidelberg, which re­ award, made at the Israeli years working with the Mark-J col­ mained his base for the next Knesset on 18 September, acknow laboration atDESY. He earned his 20 years. His contacts with CERN ledges the significant developments Ph. D. in high energy physics at remained strong: he was a member made by the three physicists in the Princeton in 1977. At Fermilab he of the Scientific Policy Committee study of phase transitions. As well is working with the Colliding Detec- Leon Lederman and Robert Wilson at the ceremony to name the central laboratory building at Fermilab 'Robert Rathbun Wilson Hall'. The ceremony took place on 18 September. Other speakers at the occasion included Norman Ramsey, president of Universities' Research Association (URA); Edwin L. Goldwasser, vice-chancellor for Research of the University of Illinois; Harry Woolf, chairman of the URA Board of Trustees and of the Institute for Advanced Studies; and Andrew Mravca, area manager. Batavia Area Office of the U.S. Department of Energy. (Photo Fermilab) The Fermilab 400 GeV accelera­ tor, the newly commissioned PEP storage ring and the CESR facility at Cornell must be used as fully as possible to exploit for physics the large investments already made. Construction of the Energy Saver and of ISABELLE must proceed with all deliberate speed. Necessary research and development funds must be provided to ensure their success. University-based groups should receive increased support to assure vitality of their efforts on immediate experimentation and also on detector development for the future. Accelerator studies and tech­ nical research should begin imme­ diately toward the goal of starting the construction of a very large accelerator (electron energies of several hundred GeV or proton en­ ergies of WTeV or more) during the second half of this decade. For the nearer future the subpanel tor Facility Group. Kadel is the third the muon magnetic moment, carried looked at the proposals from Stan­ Wilson Fellow now working at Fer­ out at CERN. ford (Single Pass Collider Project milab. The other two are John to collide electrons and positrons Cumalat and David Neuffer. The Wil­ Kjell Johnsen, who led the construc­ at 50 GeV per beam), from Cornell son fellows programme was estab­ tion of the Intersecting Storage (the 50 GeV electron-positron stor­ lished to honour Fermilab's first Rings at CERN, has been appointed age ring) and the electron-proton director and now director emeritus, Technical Director of the ISABELLE colliding beam schemes for Fermi­ Robert R. Wilson. The appointments project at Brookhaven, with respon­ lab (proposed by Canadian groups are for three years. sibility for the machine itself. Jim and by Columbia). It was decided Sanford continues as overall Project to delay recommendations on these Head. Meanwhile there is good possibilities for at least a year. Among the awards that will be news from the ISABELLE magnet made at the Royal Society's meeting The subpanel laboured in an at­ front (see page 340). in London on 1 December is the mosphere of great concern about Royal Medal to Sir Denys H. Wil­ the low level of funding of the high kinson and the Hughes Medal to energy physics programme, which Francis Farley. Wilkinson, now vice- Out of Woods Hole . has been further compounded by chancellor of the University of Sus­ lack of compensation for inflation sex, receives his medal for his work Each year the high energy physics (what Sid Dr ell, HEPAP Chairman in nuclear physics, beta decay, and programme in the USA is reviewed calls 'the painful reality'). Bill Wal- the fundamental symmetries of by a subpanel of the HEPAP (High lenmayer, Director of the HEP Div­ nuclear interactions. Farley, dean Energy Physics Advisory Panel) ision in the Department of Energy, of the Royal Military College of meeting at Woods Hole. This year acknowledged that the accelerator Science, Shrivenham, is honoured the subpanel was chaired by Sam Laboratories are falling to operation for his participation in the series Treiman and emerged with the levels of 50 per cent of their full of ultra-precise measurements of following recommendations: capacity because of lack of funds. First observation in nuclear emulsion of the positively charged charmed baryon into the photoproduction of a charmed baryon and neutral lambda and a charged pion. Another a charmed meson, as seen by the photon/ secondary vertex (point B) gives a spray of emulsion and Omega/photon collaborations particles, also detected in Omega, and at CERN. A 25 GeV photon coming in from corresponds to the decay of a neutral the left produces among other things a track charmed meson into a kaon and three pions. which appears to undergo a sizeable An earlier experiment by the same group was deflection (point A). Not seen in the emulsion hampered by poor emulsion quality, but the but picked up by the Omega spectrometer latest run, using 6000 pellicles of emulsion downstream is a neutral lambda coming manufactured by the State Research Institute from the interaction region. The deflection for Photochemical Projects, Moscow, is is thus interpreted as the decay of a producing excellent results. PEP dedication powerful instrument to continue seen in the decay of the rare iso­ the search for elementary particles, tope lithium-11 (see November Among the speakers at the dedica­ and to seek a greater understanding 1979 issue, page 354) and later, tion ceremony for the new PEP of the fundamental properties of in experiments by an ISOLDE/Orsay electron-positron collider at SLAC matter and the universe. This is collaboration, from sodium-31, 32 on 5 September was Frank Press, basic research of the highest order, and 33. of which my Administration and President Carter's advisor on In a further study of lithium-11 the Nation are both very proud. science and technology. He spoke decay, neutron counters were con­ of the moves being made to boost I welcome the opportunity to ex­ nected in parallel and timed by a the funds available for basic re­ press my appreciation to all who 'flying clock' microprocessor which search in the US, and read the fol­ have worked for many years to enabled neutron correlations to be lowing message from the President make this effort a reality. And to analysed in the playback of the to the staff of SLAC and the those who will be working with this magnetic data tape. Now a signal Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory: fine facility I extend my best wishes due to three neutrons is found 'Congratulations on the dedication for success in their important scien­ which cannot be attributed to acci­ of the collaborative Positron-Elec­ tific quest.
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