PEOPLE APPOINTMENTS & AWARDS Cornell gets a new chair Two prominent accelerator physicists and Cornell alumni, Helen T Edwards and her husband, Donald A Edwards, have endowed a chair in accelerator physics at Cornell.The chair is named after Boyce D McDaniel, pro­ fessor emeritus at Cornell. The first holder of the new chair is David L Rubin, professor of physics and director of accelerator physics at Cornell.The donors David Rubin is the first incumbent of the new Boyce McDaniel Chair of Physics at Cornell, asked that the new professorship should be endowed by Helen and Donald Edwards. The chair is named after Boyce D McDaniel. Left awarded to a Cornell faculty member whose to right: Boyce McDaniel, Donald Edwards, David Rubin, Helen Edwards and Maury Tigner, discipline is particle-beam physics and who director of Cornell's Laboratory of Nuclear Studies. would teach both graduate and undergradu­ ate students in addition to doing research. McDaniel, a previous director of nuclear ingthe commissioning of the Main Ring at Helen Edwards is a 1957 graduate of science at Cornell, was Helen Edwards' thesis Fermilab and providing advice for numerous Cornell, where she also earned her PhD in adviser. Initially a graduate student at Cornell, accelerator projects throughout the US, in 1966. She works at Fermilab and at DESY in he left during the Second World War to join the addition to his notable contributions to the Germany. She played a prominent role in the Manhattan Project and returned to complete accelerator and elementary particle physics construction of Fermilab'sTevatron and has his PhD, joining the faculty in 1946. He programs at Cornell. been the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation became a full professor in 1956 and was Rubin was recruited by Cornell after Genius Award and an E 0 Lawrence Award. named the Floyd R Newman Professor in receiving his PhD from Michigan in 1983. For Donald Edwards, who also works at DESY, is Nuclear Studies in 1977. He was director of more than a decade he has been the leader considered to be a major voice in accelerator the laboratory from 1967 to 1985, leading it of the large group of physicists and engineers theory and was responsible for the technical through the completion of its 10 GeV electron responsible for designing and implementing design of the Cornell synchrotron. He received synchrotron and the design and construction upgrades of CESR.This has provided the his PhD from Cornell in 1961. of the Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR) backbone for a very successful programme in Helen and Donald Edwards have been and the CLEO detector. McDaniel enjoys an heavy quark and lepton physics and has actively involved with theTESLA supercon­ international reputation for his distinguished enabled Cornell to remain the foremost centre ducting linear collider project at DESY career in accelerator physics, including lead- for the training of US accelerator physicists. 2000 Grand Prix AMA awards prize The 2000 Grand Prix europeen de I'innovation for innovation was awarded to Carlo Rubbia, 1984 Nobel prizewinner and former CERN director-general, On the occasion of SENSOR 2001 (8-10 for his energy amplifier, a subcritical fast May), the AMA Prize for Innovation 2001 will neutron system driven by a proton accelerator. be awarded.The prize, for exceptional The device can run on a mixture of natural application-related research and thorium and nuclear waste.The destruction of development activities in the sensors area, long-lived fission fragments (technicium-99, The 2000 Grand Prix europeen de has been endowed with DM 25 000 by the iodine-129, etc) would be achieved via the I'innovation was awarded to Carlo Rubbia, AMA Association for SensorTechnology, adiabatic crossing of neutron-capture 1984. Holding their awards are the three Gottingen.The prize is being offered to give resonances in lead around the core of the winners of the competition (left to right): prominence to excellent R&D activities with a amplifier.This process, demonstrated by the Michael Graetzel of EPF Lausanne (Prix visibly good market approach. Companies TARC experiment at CERN (April 1997 p8), europeen de I'innovation), Carlo Rubbia and institutes may apply.The application would also allow the production of radio­ (Grand Prix) and Bernard Spinner of the deadline is 31 March. See "http://www.ama- isotopes for industry and medical purposes. French CNRS (Prix du Jury). sensorik.de" under "Aktuell". 34 CERN Courier March 2001 PEOPLE At the recent annual Users' Meeting of the Bogoliubov prize goes to young scientists Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL), former deputy director of the SSRL, The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research September that was held to commemorate Herman Winick, was the surprise recipient of announces the N N Bogoliubov prize for young Bogoliubov's 90th anniversary. the US Department of Energy's prestigious scientists.The prize, established in 1999 in Entries for the 2001 prize (including CV and Distinguished Associate Award. Pat Dehmer, memory of the eminent physicist and a one- or two-page abstract of submitted director of the DOE Office of Basic Energy mathematician Nikolai Nikolaevich papers) should be sent to the Directorate of Sciences, presented it to him for his "many Bogoliubov (1909-1992), is awarded to the Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical accomplishments, contributions and leader­ researchers up to 33 years old for outstanding Physics of the Joint Institute for Nuclear ship in the development of modern contributions in the fields of theoretical Research before 1 May 2001 (DrVI Zhuravlev, synchrotron radiation sources and insertion physics related to Bogoliubov's interests. As a Scientific Secretary of Bogoliubov Laboratory devices". Previous winners of this award rule, it is awarded to a scientist who has of Theoretical Physics, JINR, Joliot-Curie str. 6, include Sid DrellfLeon Lederman,and Sir shown early scientific maturity and whose 141980 Dubna, Moscow Region, Russia; Chris Llewellyn Smith. results are recognized worldwide. e-mail [email protected]). Entries should try to emulate Bogoliubov's Bogoliubov's scientific activity began in Kiev C N Yang shares the prestigious 2001 King skill in using sophisticated mathematics to at 14 and key results followed from the age of Faisal International Prize for Science for his attack concrete physical problems.The first 20. His main interests were nonlinear lifelong contribution to theoretical particle prize was awarded in the summer of 1999 mechanics, statistical physics, quantum field physics. He shares the prize with photonics and presented at the Dubna conference in theory and elementary particle theory. specialist Sajeev John. Chien-Shiung Wu is well remembered The C S Wu and L C LYuan Natural Science Foundation, New York, has established a lecture series at the Southeast University at Nanjing, China, where Chien-Shiung Wu, the discoverer of parity violation and of Yuan, started her university education 70 years ago. The first two lectures were given in November by 1976 Nobel prizewinner Sam Ting and former CERN director-general Herwig Schopper, who also became honorary professors of the university. January 2001 marked the 70th birthday of The Chinese Government has decided to eminent Armenian theoretician Sergei establish a C S Wu Memorial Hall, which is to David Southwood of London's Imperial Matinyan. Born in Georgia, he established be designed with the help of renowed College has been elected Director of the first theoretical physics group before architect I M Pei, in a prominent position at Science at the European Space Agency moving to Yerevan in 1970 to pioneer a the university to house C S Wu memorabilia, (ESA) for the next four years. He takes over theory group. He has been visiting professor including the original equipment of the 1956 from Roger-Maurice Bonnet on 1 May. at Duke University in the US since 1993. parity experiment. The opening of the building is scheduled for spring 2002. Going to work at CERN? For information, contact [email protected] or see http://cern.web.cern.ch/CERN/Divisions/EP/UsersOffice CERN Courier March 2001 35 PEOPLE Louis Leprince-Ringuet 1901-2000 Louis Leprince-Ringuet died on 23 December Peyrou, Bernard Gregory, Andre Lagarrigue and 2000. His popularity was enormous. He was Francis Muller, chose the observatory on the well known to the general public through his Pic du Midi in the Bigorre region of the frequent television appearances, articles in Pyrenees mountains to set up a system of two the newspapers and his art exhibitions, and superimposed cloud chambers.The most as an avid spectator of international tennis important result obtained in this installation tournaments at the Roland Garros stadium in was the identification of the disintegration of Paris. In his speeches he presented science the K meson into a muon and a neutrino. as something vital, exciting and enterprising. Another team, led by Jean Crussard, experi­ The scientific community owes him a debt of mented with the use of sounding balloons thanks for his contribution to stimulating carrying photographic emulsions to expose public interest in science. them to cosmic radiation for several hours. His career was no ordinary one. After gradu­ At the end of the 1950s the building of ating from the Ecole Polytechnique, he joined accelerators at Saclay and in Geneva led to the French post office and telecommunica­ the lab converting from cloud chambers to French scientific heavyweights - Louis tions services and worked for five years until bubble chambers. Andre Lagarrigue started a Leprince-Ringuet (right) with Francis Perrin 1929 on maintaining submarine cables. It programme to build several heavy liquid bub­ at CERN in 1963. was at this point that he decided to move to ble chambers, the last of which, Gargamelle, Maurice de Broglie's lab, where he got his first would lead to the discovery of weak neutral As laboratory director, Leprince-Ringuet taste of nuclear physics, building an amplifier currents in 1973.