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a W a r D s Kolkata pays tribute to the memory of Bose
A bust of Satyendra Nath Bose, the Indian Karlsruhe honours Cronin, Jenni and Della Negra scientist best known for his work on Bose-Einstein statistics, was unveiled on The awards of the Julius Wess Award and 6 October on the corner of a prominent an honorary doctorate were two of the thoroughfare in the northern region of highlights of the inaugural symposium of Kolkata. Bikash Sinha, the Homi Bhabha the Karlsruhe School of Elementary Particle chair professor at the Indian Department of and Astroparticle Physics – Science and Atomic Energy, performed the unveiling in Technology (KSETA), which took place on a ceremony attended by many distinguished 1 February. The school has been founded people, including scientists, ministers and thanks to a successful application within eminent academics. the context of the 2012 German Excellence Bose’s ancestral home is located nearby, Initiative. next to the Scottish Church Collegiate Nobel laureate James Cronin was made School. Sinha had his early education in the an honorary doctor of the Karlsruher Institut same school and came to know Bose closely, für Technologie (KIT) for his outstanding visiting him after school hours. Bose himself achievements in cosmic-ray research, which Above: Winners of the Julius Wess Award, explained to the young Sinha about the beauty culminated in the successful construction Peter Jenni, centre left, and Michel Della and the elegance of his famous statistics and and operation of the Auger Observatory in Negra, together with Johannes Blümer, far how spin-0 and spin-1 elementary particles Argentina. A research group from KIT has left, Detlef Löhe and Thomas Müller, right. obey Bose-Einstein statistics. Bikash Sinha unveiled the new bust of Satyendra Nath Bose in northern Kolkata. (Image been working closely with Cronin since the Since the announcement of the discovery credit: Sutanati Book Fair Committee/Suman Bhowmick.) beginning of the project. Right: New honorary doctor Jim Cronin of a Higgs-like boson on 4 July 2012, a keen Peter Jenni and Michel Della Negra of speaks to an attentive audience. (Image interest has gripped this area of Kolkata. for creating mass. The general public is particle”. The hysteria, Sinha notes, seems CERN were presented with KIT’s 2013 credits: KIT.) Intense intellectual discussion is the order of extremely curious about the newly found to have gone so far that Bose – a Bengali – Julius Wess Award for their outstanding the day, with no end to the discussion of the boson and its connection to God because is now viewed by some as a favoured son contributions to hadron-collider physics, “founding fathers” of the ATLAS and CMS relevance of the Higgs boson and its capacity it has often been referred to as the “God of God. which led to the discovery of the W and Z experiments at the LHC, respectively, and bosons in 1983 and of what could well prove they created the present-day culture of P r i Z E s to be the Higgs boson in 2012. As long-term competition between friends. KIT has been spokespersons, they are often dubbed the deeply involved in CMS for almost 18 years. Brookhaven physicists win IEEE awards for innovation i NtErNatiONaL Two physicists at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) are to receive awards UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon visits CERN from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) at a ceremony On 1 March, Ban Ki-moon, secretary-general on Long Island, NY, on 21 March. of the United Nations, visited CERN for the John Smedley is the 2013 recipient of first time since the organization was granted the Charles Hirsch Award in recognition observer status at the United Nations General of his “contributions to the advancement Assembly last December (CERN Courier of photocathode technology”. The award, Jan/Feb 2013 p5). made by the Long Island section of the Ban visited underground areas at IEEE, recognizes innovative and significant the LHC, as well as UNOSAT, the UN technical accomplishments. Smedley has technology-intensive programme hosted been researching and designing novel by CERN to deliver imagery analysis and accelerator photocathodes at Brookhaven satellite solutions to relief and development for almost 20 years. Most recently, he has organizations (CERN Courier October been involved in the development of a 2009 p17). diamond-amplified photocathode that could The visit offered the opportunity to discuss revolutionize fourth-generation light-source CERN’s contribution to science-related technology, with amplifiers capable of John Smedley, left, and Zheng Li, winners of IEEE innovation awards. (Image credits: BNL.) UN activities, such as ECOSOC, the United Above: The new spokesperson for ATLAS, increasing an electron beam’s current by a Nations platform on economic and social Dave Charlton, left, discusses the factor of more than 300. To increase detection efficiency and lower the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider. More issues. CERN contributed on the theme of experiment with Ban Ki-moon during a tour Zheng Li is the 2012 recipient of the signal-to-noise ratio, in 2004 Li developed recently, he developed a “3D-trench electrode young women in science to ECOSOC’s youth of the underground cavern. IEEE Region 1 Technological Innovation a novel “stripixel” detector – a single-sided detector” based on his stripixel research that forum on 27 March and will be taking part Award for his groundbreaking work in “the silicon strip detector that significantly has potential applications beyond high-energy in ECOSOC meetings in Geneva in July. Ban the role of the secretary-general’s recently Left: The UN secretary-general, left, meets development of novel silicon detectors in increased the accuracy and output of data of and nuclear physics. Already, one company and CERN’s director-general also discussed established science advisory board. representatives from UNOSAT. photon science and particle physics research”. the PHENIX experiment at the Brookhaven’s based in New York has expressed interest.
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a W a r D s Kolkata pays tribute to the memory of Bose
A bust of Satyendra Nath Bose, the Indian Karlsruhe honours Cronin, Jenni and Della Negra scientist best known for his work on Bose-Einstein statistics, was unveiled on The awards of the Julius Wess Award and 6 October on the corner of a prominent an honorary doctorate were two of the thoroughfare in the northern region of highlights of the inaugural symposium of Kolkata. Bikash Sinha, the Homi Bhabha the Karlsruhe School of Elementary Particle chair professor at the Indian Department of and Astroparticle Physics – Science and Atomic Energy, performed the unveiling in Technology (KSETA), which took place on a ceremony attended by many distinguished 1 February. The school has been founded people, including scientists, ministers and thanks to a successful application within eminent academics. the context of the 2012 German Excellence Bose’s ancestral home is located nearby, Initiative. next to the Scottish Church Collegiate Nobel laureate James Cronin was made School. Sinha had his early education in the an honorary doctor of the Karlsruher Institut same school and came to know Bose closely, für Technologie (KIT) for his outstanding visiting him after school hours. Bose himself achievements in cosmic-ray research, which Above: Winners of the Julius Wess Award, explained to the young Sinha about the beauty culminated in the successful construction Peter Jenni, centre left, and Michel Della and the elegance of his famous statistics and and operation of the Auger Observatory in Negra, together with Johannes Blümer, far how spin-0 and spin-1 elementary particles Argentina. A research group from KIT has left, Detlef Löhe and Thomas Müller, right. obey Bose-Einstein statistics. Bikash Sinha unveiled the new bust of Satyendra Nath Bose in northern Kolkata. (Image been working closely with Cronin since the Since the announcement of the discovery credit: Sutanati Book Fair Committee/Suman Bhowmick.) beginning of the project. Right: New honorary doctor Jim Cronin of a Higgs-like boson on 4 July 2012, a keen Peter Jenni and Michel Della Negra of speaks to an attentive audience. (Image interest has gripped this area of Kolkata. for creating mass. The general public is particle”. The hysteria, Sinha notes, seems CERN were presented with KIT’s 2013 credits: KIT.) Intense intellectual discussion is the order of extremely curious about the newly found to have gone so far that Bose – a Bengali – Julius Wess Award for their outstanding the day, with no end to the discussion of the boson and its connection to God because is now viewed by some as a favoured son contributions to hadron-collider physics, “founding fathers” of the ATLAS and CMS relevance of the Higgs boson and its capacity it has often been referred to as the “God of God. which led to the discovery of the W and Z experiments at the LHC, respectively, and bosons in 1983 and of what could well prove they created the present-day culture of P r i Z E s to be the Higgs boson in 2012. As long-term competition between friends. KIT has been spokespersons, they are often dubbed the deeply involved in CMS for almost 18 years. Brookhaven physicists win IEEE awards for innovation i NtErNatiONaL Two physicists at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) are to receive awards UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon visits CERN from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) at a ceremony On 1 March, Ban Ki-moon, secretary-general on Long Island, NY, on 21 March. of the United Nations, visited CERN for the John Smedley is the 2013 recipient of first time since the organization was granted the Charles Hirsch Award in recognition observer status at the United Nations General of his “contributions to the advancement Assembly last December (CERN Courier of photocathode technology”. The award, Jan/Feb 2013 p5). made by the Long Island section of the Ban visited underground areas at IEEE, recognizes innovative and significant the LHC, as well as UNOSAT, the UN technical accomplishments. Smedley has technology-intensive programme hosted been researching and designing novel by CERN to deliver imagery analysis and accelerator photocathodes at Brookhaven satellite solutions to relief and development for almost 20 years. Most recently, he has organizations (CERN Courier October been involved in the development of a 2009 p17). diamond-amplified photocathode that could The visit offered the opportunity to discuss revolutionize fourth-generation light-source CERN’s contribution to science-related technology, with amplifiers capable of John Smedley, left, and Zheng Li, winners of IEEE innovation awards. (Image credits: BNL.) UN activities, such as ECOSOC, the United Above: The new spokesperson for ATLAS, increasing an electron beam’s current by a Nations platform on economic and social Dave Charlton, left, discusses the factor of more than 300. To increase detection efficiency and lower the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider. More issues. CERN contributed on the theme of experiment with Ban Ki-moon during a tour Zheng Li is the 2012 recipient of the signal-to-noise ratio, in 2004 Li developed recently, he developed a “3D-trench electrode young women in science to ECOSOC’s youth of the underground cavern. IEEE Region 1 Technological Innovation a novel “stripixel” detector – a single-sided detector” based on his stripixel research that forum on 27 March and will be taking part Award for his groundbreaking work in “the silicon strip detector that significantly has potential applications beyond high-energy in ECOSOC meetings in Geneva in July. Ban the role of the secretary-general’s recently Left: The UN secretary-general, left, meets development of novel silicon detectors in increased the accuracy and output of data of and nuclear physics. Already, one company and CERN’s director-general also discussed established science advisory board. representatives from UNOSAT. photon science and particle physics research”. the PHENIX experiment at the Brookhaven’s based in New York has expressed interest.
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C OLLaBOratiON O B i t u a r i E s ALICE matters around the world Aldo Menzione 1943–2012 The latest ALICE Physics Week – a tradition that began in Erice in 2005 – took place Aldo Menzione, a pioneer in the development construction project, which played an outside Europe for the first time when it and use of silicon vertex detectors, passed essential role in the discovery of the top was held at the Benemérita Universidad away quietly and unexpectedly in Pisa on quark in 1995 by identifying the b quarks Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), Mexico, on 23 December 2012. from top decays. For Run 2 of CDF, an 27 November – 1 December. Participants Aldo graduated in physics in 1967 with upgraded vertex detector was implemented were welcomed by Enrique Agüera Ibáñez, a thesis on “Production of Neutral Mesons with fast front-end trigger electronics, rector of BUAP, and Arturo Fernandez Tellez Decaying into All-neutral secondaries” at which allowed operation of a displaced also of BUAP, who chaired the meeting, as the CERN Proton Synchrotron and in 1969 vertex trigger, the Silicon Vertex Trigger well as by representatives from the Centro joined the Pisa-Stony Brook collaboration (SVT). Aldo and the prime designer of de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados, the at the Intersecting Storage Rings (ISR). the SVT, Luciano Ristori, were awarded Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa and the This experiment discovered that the the 2009 Panofsky Prize in Experimental Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. total proton–proton cross-section starts Particle Physics of the American Physical During the week, some 110 ALICE increasing at ISR energies, a departure Society in 2009 for “their leading role in the members discussed the top issues in the from what had previously appeared to be establishment and use of precision silicon ALICE physics programme, with a special a flat “asymptotic” behaviour. Aldo made Aldo Menzione. (Image credit: Courtesy tracking detectors at hadron colliders, emphasis on results from the pilot proton–lead important contributions in setting up the Bichina Menzione.) enabling broad advances in knowledge of the run that took place in September, as well experiment and in the study of short-range top quark, b hadrons, and charm hadrons” as on the detector upgrade. As part of the Above: ALICE members at the meeting in correlations among particles produced in an innovative germanium-strip detector to (CERN Courier December 2008 p34). effort to open the physics week to the city of Puebla. (Image credit: Domenico Collela.) inelastic collisions, which were observed by identify the decay of long-lived charmed Besides being an extremely skilled Puebla, the organizers arranged for a public the same experiment for the first time as an hadrons, allowing measurement of their experimentalist, Aldo was warm, direct lecture on “the perfect fluid” to be given by Right: Paolo Giubellino, spokesperson of early manifestation of hadron jets. lifetimes. From this, Aldo understood that and a wonderful colleague and friend. He the ALICE spokesperson, Paolo Giubellino. ALICE, and Prasart Suebka, rector of SUT, In 1978, as a member of the Pisa team, a silicon-strip vertex detector could be used participated actively in physics discussions His talk was followed by a lively discussion hold two copies of the MoU signed between Aldo designed and built the small-angle to signal the decays of charmed and beauty with crisply thought-out, bluntly expressed with the audience, including many students in CERN, ALICE and SUT. (Image credit: SUT spectrometer of the NA1 (later NA7) hadrons close to the vacuum pipe at a hadron and often deeply original contributions. Aldo attendance. Press Office.) experiment. This spectrometer obtained the collider, thereby tagging jets containing created a special atmosphere in which the The collaboration also celebrated Guy most precise measurements of the pion and heavy flavour. best decisions were made and everybody, Paić’s 75th birthday with a symposium on members Federico Antinori, Jean-Pierre kaon charge-radius, as well as a number of Starting in 1980, he began work on the including the junior members, felt included. 1–2 December on “open issues in heavy-ion Revol and Jürgen Schukraft, a diploma as new results in charm physics. The tracking detailed design of the CDF detector at ● Adapted with permission from material physics”, with talks by Paić’s colleagues distinguished visitors of Puebla. system of NA1, to which Aldo devoted Fermilab’s Tevatron with his characteristic that originally appeared in Physics from ALICE and CMS at CERN, as well In December, Suranaree University of programme. The MoU refers to the building much of his effort, used one of the first vigour, originality and vision. Aldo was Today’s Daily Edition, www.physicstoday. as from the experiments at the Relativistic Technology (SUT) signed a memorandum of a Tier-2 computing centre, which is a part active targets of silicon detectors and later leader of the Silicon Vertex Detector org/1.2902567. Heavy-Ion Collider at Brookhaven. In of understanding (MoU) with CERN and of the National e-Science Infrastructure particular, Gerardo Herrera Corral of the the ALICE collaboration. This followed the Consortium of Thailand. SUT will provide Centre for Research and Advanced Studies ALICE collaboration board’s acceptance computer equipment for the system on which of the National Polytechnic Institute of SUT as a member of the collaboration in large amounts of data from ALICE will Ger van Middelkoop 1937–2013 described Guy’s career in Mexico, which October. Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn be stored and processed. Researchers in a started more than 10 years ago. graciously presided over the signing variety of other disciplines in SUT will also Recognizing the importance of the ceremony. benefit from the high-performance system. In Ger van Middelkoop, an experimental managed to bridge the cultural differences physics week, the Mayor of Puebla awarded The agreement will further strengthen the addition, SUT will participate in the upgrade nuclear and particle physicist with a talent between the sections with his direct but also Giubellino, together with leading ALICE capacity and capability of Thailand’s research of the ALICE inner tracking system. for scientific leadership, passed away on amiable style. 4 February after unexpected heart failure. Ger was the driving force in the L E t t E r Ger studied and worked at Utrecht participation of Nikhef in the New Muon University, obtaining his PhD in 1966 with collaboration (NA37) at CERN and was In memory of Gordon Fraser met only a handful of times, at an international which I immediately thought a marvellous Pieter Endt for work on neutron capture, spokesperson from 1990 until 1995. Besides I was saddened to learn that Gordon Fraser, conference or during one of my CERN idea. So we quickly wrote an opinion piece research performed at the Reactor Research his managerial work, he always kept close long-time editor of CERN Courier, had died visits, we became good friends and trusted together that Physics World published in Facility in Petten (now known as Energy contact with the ongoing work of PhD earlier this year (CERN Courier March colleagues via e-mail and the occasional phone its August 2012 issue, which announced Centre Netherlands). He also worked as a students and colleagues at the laboratory 2013 p36). I will remember Gordon first and call, despite well known interlab rivalries. the discovery of the new particle. This postdoc at Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories – often walking in and discussing physics foremost as my editor and collaborator in I last saw Gordon while at CERN time Gordon served as the writer, dashing in Canada. even when they were working late. Many trying to communicate high-energy physics to cover the impending “Higgs boson off 1000 words in a few hours, and me the In 1979 he was appointed as professor in colleagues remember him as someone who beyond the strict confines of the discipline. discovery” for Physics World and editor. Our last joint effort will always experimental physics at the Vrije Universiteit carefully read and corrected publications Every month or so, I’d send him a draft news Scientific American. We shared a remain my fondest memory of him, and of in Amsterdam. In the following years he and thesis manuscripts, and who was always item or longer article about goings-on at memorable Sunday visiting the Einstein all our many attempts to explain physics played a key role in the merger of the separate Ger van Middelkoop. (Image credit: Nikhef.) stimulating staff and students to attend SLAC. He’d gently nudge my awkward copy Museum and home (closed for repairs, to wider audiences. I’m glad that I had this Nuclear Physics and High-Energy Physics weekly colloquia at the institute, where he into something more readable by the audience unfortunately) in Bern. On the train there, final opportunity. sections into what is now the National Physics section for several years (1983–1988) himself enlivened the discussion with sharp that CERN Courier was aiming to reach. I we discussed Gordon’s suggestion to ● Michael Riordan, former SLAC Institute for Subatomic Physics (Nikhef). and later the first scientific director of the questions. learnt a lot from him. Although we may have rename this new particle the “higgson”, correspondent, Eastsound, WA. He was scientific director of the Nuclear combined Nikhef institute (1996–2001). He Later in his career and after his retirement,
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C OLLaBOratiON O B i t u a r i E s ALICE matters around the world Aldo Menzione 1943–2012 The latest ALICE Physics Week – a tradition that began in Erice in 2005 – took place Aldo Menzione, a pioneer in the development construction project, which played an outside Europe for the first time when it and use of silicon vertex detectors, passed essential role in the discovery of the top was held at the Benemérita Universidad away quietly and unexpectedly in Pisa on quark in 1995 by identifying the b quarks Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), Mexico, on 23 December 2012. from top decays. For Run 2 of CDF, an 27 November – 1 December. Participants Aldo graduated in physics in 1967 with upgraded vertex detector was implemented were welcomed by Enrique Agüera Ibáñez, a thesis on “Production of Neutral Mesons with fast front-end trigger electronics, rector of BUAP, and Arturo Fernandez Tellez Decaying into All-neutral secondaries” at which allowed operation of a displaced also of BUAP, who chaired the meeting, as the CERN Proton Synchrotron and in 1969 vertex trigger, the Silicon Vertex Trigger well as by representatives from the Centro joined the Pisa-Stony Brook collaboration (SVT). Aldo and the prime designer of de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados, the at the Intersecting Storage Rings (ISR). the SVT, Luciano Ristori, were awarded Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa and the This experiment discovered that the the 2009 Panofsky Prize in Experimental Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. total proton–proton cross-section starts Particle Physics of the American Physical During the week, some 110 ALICE increasing at ISR energies, a departure Society in 2009 for “their leading role in the members discussed the top issues in the from what had previously appeared to be establishment and use of precision silicon ALICE physics programme, with a special a flat “asymptotic” behaviour. Aldo made Aldo Menzione. (Image credit: Courtesy tracking detectors at hadron colliders, emphasis on results from the pilot proton–lead important contributions in setting up the Bichina Menzione.) enabling broad advances in knowledge of the run that took place in September, as well experiment and in the study of short-range top quark, b hadrons, and charm hadrons” as on the detector upgrade. As part of the Above: ALICE members at the meeting in correlations among particles produced in an innovative germanium-strip detector to (CERN Courier December 2008 p34). effort to open the physics week to the city of Puebla. (Image credit: Domenico Collela.) inelastic collisions, which were observed by identify the decay of long-lived charmed Besides being an extremely skilled Puebla, the organizers arranged for a public the same experiment for the first time as an hadrons, allowing measurement of their experimentalist, Aldo was warm, direct lecture on “the perfect fluid” to be given by Right: Paolo Giubellino, spokesperson of early manifestation of hadron jets. lifetimes. From this, Aldo understood that and a wonderful colleague and friend. He the ALICE spokesperson, Paolo Giubellino. ALICE, and Prasart Suebka, rector of SUT, In 1978, as a member of the Pisa team, a silicon-strip vertex detector could be used participated actively in physics discussions His talk was followed by a lively discussion hold two copies of the MoU signed between Aldo designed and built the small-angle to signal the decays of charmed and beauty with crisply thought-out, bluntly expressed with the audience, including many students in CERN, ALICE and SUT. (Image credit: SUT spectrometer of the NA1 (later NA7) hadrons close to the vacuum pipe at a hadron and often deeply original contributions. Aldo attendance. Press Office.) experiment. This spectrometer obtained the collider, thereby tagging jets containing created a special atmosphere in which the The collaboration also celebrated Guy most precise measurements of the pion and heavy flavour. best decisions were made and everybody, Paić’s 75th birthday with a symposium on members Federico Antinori, Jean-Pierre kaon charge-radius, as well as a number of Starting in 1980, he began work on the including the junior members, felt included. 1–2 December on “open issues in heavy-ion Revol and Jürgen Schukraft, a diploma as new results in charm physics. The tracking detailed design of the CDF detector at ● Adapted with permission from material physics”, with talks by Paić’s colleagues distinguished visitors of Puebla. system of NA1, to which Aldo devoted Fermilab’s Tevatron with his characteristic that originally appeared in Physics from ALICE and CMS at CERN, as well In December, Suranaree University of programme. The MoU refers to the building much of his effort, used one of the first vigour, originality and vision. Aldo was Today’s Daily Edition, www.physicstoday. as from the experiments at the Relativistic Technology (SUT) signed a memorandum of a Tier-2 computing centre, which is a part active targets of silicon detectors and later leader of the Silicon Vertex Detector org/1.2902567. Heavy-Ion Collider at Brookhaven. In of understanding (MoU) with CERN and of the National e-Science Infrastructure particular, Gerardo Herrera Corral of the the ALICE collaboration. This followed the Consortium of Thailand. SUT will provide Centre for Research and Advanced Studies ALICE collaboration board’s acceptance computer equipment for the system on which of the National Polytechnic Institute of SUT as a member of the collaboration in large amounts of data from ALICE will Ger van Middelkoop 1937–2013 described Guy’s career in Mexico, which October. Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn be stored and processed. Researchers in a started more than 10 years ago. graciously presided over the signing variety of other disciplines in SUT will also Recognizing the importance of the ceremony. benefit from the high-performance system. In Ger van Middelkoop, an experimental managed to bridge the cultural differences physics week, the Mayor of Puebla awarded The agreement will further strengthen the addition, SUT will participate in the upgrade nuclear and particle physicist with a talent between the sections with his direct but also Giubellino, together with leading ALICE capacity and capability of Thailand’s research of the ALICE inner tracking system. for scientific leadership, passed away on amiable style. 4 February after unexpected heart failure. Ger was the driving force in the L E t t E r Ger studied and worked at Utrecht participation of Nikhef in the New Muon University, obtaining his PhD in 1966 with collaboration (NA37) at CERN and was In memory of Gordon Fraser met only a handful of times, at an international which I immediately thought a marvellous Pieter Endt for work on neutron capture, spokesperson from 1990 until 1995. Besides I was saddened to learn that Gordon Fraser, conference or during one of my CERN idea. So we quickly wrote an opinion piece research performed at the Reactor Research his managerial work, he always kept close long-time editor of CERN Courier, had died visits, we became good friends and trusted together that Physics World published in Facility in Petten (now known as Energy contact with the ongoing work of PhD earlier this year (CERN Courier March colleagues via e-mail and the occasional phone its August 2012 issue, which announced Centre Netherlands). He also worked as a students and colleagues at the laboratory 2013 p36). I will remember Gordon first and call, despite well known interlab rivalries. the discovery of the new particle. This postdoc at Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories – often walking in and discussing physics foremost as my editor and collaborator in I last saw Gordon while at CERN time Gordon served as the writer, dashing in Canada. even when they were working late. Many trying to communicate high-energy physics to cover the impending “Higgs boson off 1000 words in a few hours, and me the In 1979 he was appointed as professor in colleagues remember him as someone who beyond the strict confines of the discipline. discovery” for Physics World and editor. Our last joint effort will always experimental physics at the Vrije Universiteit carefully read and corrected publications Every month or so, I’d send him a draft news Scientific American. We shared a remain my fondest memory of him, and of in Amsterdam. In the following years he and thesis manuscripts, and who was always item or longer article about goings-on at memorable Sunday visiting the Einstein all our many attempts to explain physics played a key role in the merger of the separate Ger van Middelkoop. (Image credit: Nikhef.) stimulating staff and students to attend SLAC. He’d gently nudge my awkward copy Museum and home (closed for repairs, to wider audiences. I’m glad that I had this Nuclear Physics and High-Energy Physics weekly colloquia at the institute, where he into something more readable by the audience unfortunately) in Bern. On the train there, final opportunity. sections into what is now the National Physics section for several years (1983–1988) himself enlivened the discussion with sharp that CERN Courier was aiming to reach. I we discussed Gordon’s suggestion to ● Michael Riordan, former SLAC Institute for Subatomic Physics (Nikhef). and later the first scientific director of the questions. learnt a lot from him. Although we may have rename this new particle the “higgson”, correspondent, Eastsound, WA. He was scientific director of the Nuclear combined Nikhef institute (1996–2001). He Later in his career and after his retirement,
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he stayed active in the field. He led the boards as well as organized and participated organized and enjoyed with his new partner the electron synchrotron at Yerevan Physics in scientific organizational matters and organization of the 2002 International in various physics outreach activities in the various cultural activities in their second Institute (YPI). In the following decades, international collaborations. His involvement Conference on High-Energy Physics in Netherlands. After a difficult period in his home in France. thanks to his efforts, the institute acquired in JINR, Dubna, was particularly important; Amsterdam, was active in scientific advisory personal life, in which he lost his wife, he ● His friends and colleagues. state-of-the-art electronic and computer for many years he had the role of liaison technology, and under his leadership representative for the Republic of Armenia. established a powerful experimental In addition, he had an important role infrastructure, where an extensive in the education and development of David Olive 1937–2012 programme in nuclear and particle physics young Armenian scientists. He lectured was successfully accomplished. at the Yerevan State University’s Physics His group achieved a series of important Department from 1968 and in the years David Olive, a pioneer of string theory who in some supersymmetric theories. The results on fundamental properties of 1969–1974 was the chair of nuclear physics. made seminal contributions to S-matrix Olive-Montonen duality emerged later elementary particles; the results on He created the Experimental Physics School theory, superstrings and gauge theories, died from a deeper web of dualities underlying photoproduction at the electron synchrotron, in Armenia and more than 20 PhD students on 7 November 2012. Among many honours, string/M theory, ushering in the second in particular, brought recognition to received their diplomas under his guidance. he was awarded the 1997 ICTP Dirac Medal, superstring revolution of the mid-1990s. Vartapetyan and his colleagues. He was In parallel, he worked successfully with shared with Peter Goddard. David moved to Imperial College in 1977, awarded the Red Flag Medal in 1971, the secondary schools on science education. Born in 1937, David was educated in becoming professor in 1984 and head of Badge of Honour in 1976 and, along with The memory of the highly respected Edinburgh and then Cambridge, where theoretical physics in 1988. He left in 1992 his colleagues, received the Republic of Hamlet Vartapetyan will forever remain in he obtained his PhD in 1963. After a for Swansea University, where he and Ian Armenia Award in Science and Technology the hearts and minds of those who had the postdoctoral appointment at the Carnegie Halliday built the theoretical particle physics for his fertile scientific work. good fortune to know and work with him. Institute in Pittsburgh, he became lecturer group, now one of the UK’s leading theory Vartapetyan also worked diligently Hamlet Vartapetyan. (Image credit: YPI.) ● Ashot Chilingarian, YPI. in the department of applied mathematics groups. At Swansea he explored the deep and theoretical physics in Cambridge in symmetries underlying integrable quantum 1965. A year later, with Richard Eden, field theories, especially affine Toda theory. Peter Landshoff and John Polkinghorne, The mathematics of symmetry was a Arthur Wightman 1922–2013 he published The Analytic S-matrix, the lifelong enthusiasm, suiting the predilection definitive text on S-matrix theory. David Olive, right, receiving the 1997 ICTP for clarity, precision and depth that In 1971, David joined the CERN Theory Dirac Medal from Miguel Angel Virasoro, at characterized all of David’s work in Arthur Strong Wightman, a mathematical of parity and charge conjugation. Division, keen to work in the stimulating a ceremony in Trieste. (Image credit: ICTP theoretical physics and made him a worthy physicist and one of the founders of Independently, at the same time, Louis group of theorists around Sergio Fubini Photo Archives.) recipient of the medal named after Dirac, axiomatic quantum field theory, passed away Michel made the observation that there is and Daniele Amati on the dual-resonance whom he admired deeply. David was a on 13 January 2013. no proof of conservation of parity in weak model, later recognized as string theory. It foundations of string theory, notably on generous supervisor and teacher, guiding Born in Rochester, NY, Arthur Wightman interactions. Wightman’s interest in weak was an enormously fruitful time, highlighted Virasoro and Kac-Moody algebras, their many PhD students who have gone on to gained his PhD in 1949 under John Wheeler interactions existed from the beginning of in his memoir “From dual fermion to representations and relationships with vertex accomplished careers around the world. at Princeton University, where he was his career. Indeed, he and Michel, together superstring” in The Birth of String Theory operators. Their work on algebras and lattices His wide circle of friends, colleagues and to spend the rest of his academic career, with Val Telegdi and Valentine Bargmann (Cappelli et al. eds, CUP 2012). His work at identified the special role played by the two collaborators remember him with respect becoming professor of mathematical physics started to write a book on weak interactions CERN, in collaboration with Lars Brink and Lie groups SO(32) and E8 × E8, which were and affection as a brilliant but unassuming in theoretical physics. that was never finished. Wightman also others, initially focused on the consistent shown by Michael Green and John Schwarz theorist whose insights have become part of The goal of axiomatic quantum field supported Barry Simon in the study of formulation of dual fermion amplitudes and to exhibit the anomaly cancellation that led to the fabric of modern theoretical physics. theory was to put on a firm mathematical nonrelativistic quantum mechanics. resulted in several major contributions to the renaissance of string theory in 1984. David was a devoted family man. He basis some of the features of local field Wightman was an enchanting lecturer string theory, including the “Gliozzi-Scherk- Another major interest concerned duality married Jenny in 1963 while at Cambridge theory in such a way as to avoid illegal Antonino Zichichi listening to a lecture by both in public and in private. He was Olive (GSO) projection” which was an symmetries in gauge field theories, which and they have daughters Katie and Rosalind. mathematical operations, which produced Arthur Wightman given in the Dirac hall at active at the Erice Ettore Majorana Centre essential step in establishing 10-dimensional played a key role in later developments As well as his continuing battles with the well known infinities of QED. the Ettore Majorana Centre for Scientific for Scientific Culture, where he founded superstring theory. His vision of string of string/M theory. In 1977, while still the game of golf, reflecting his Scottish Wightman’s axioms went one step further Culture in Erice in 1988. (Image credit: and directed the International School of theory as a unified theory of all particle at CERN, he and Claus Montonen upbringing, his days at CERN led to in terms of rigour than the preceding EMCSC.) Mathematical Physics. He was awarded the interactions, including gravity, informed his conjectured that there should exist an enthusiasms for hiking and skiing. He had a formulation of Harry Lehmann, Kurt Heineman Prize by the American Physical highly influential plenary talk at the 1974 electromagnetic dual theory in which the lifelong love of classical music, and amassed Symanzik and Wolfhart Zimmermann, Carlo Wick and Eugene Wigner a paper – the Society, and the Henri Poincaré Prize by the “Rochester” conference in London. roles of monopoles and gauge bosons are a fine collection of recordings. opening the way to the more sophisticated “WWW paper” – in which the symmetry International Association for Mathematical David’s collaboration with Peter Goddard interchanged. Subsequent work with Ed ● Ed Corrigan, Ian Drummond, Graham construction of Rudolf Haag, Huzihiro properties of elementary systems are studied Physics. led to seminal papers on the mathematical Witten showed that this duality is fulfilled Shore and Tony Sudbury. Araki and Daniel Kastler. However, it was and the notion of “superselection rules” We will miss an outstanding physicist and only with the work of Henri Epstein and is introduced. In this paper they raise, in a a wonderful person. Vladimir Glaser that ultraviolet divergences footnote, doubts on the exact conservation ● His friends at CERN. could be avoided on the basis of locality. Hamlet Vartapetyan 1927–2013 In the meantime, Wightman launched a O B i t u a r Y N O t E programme of “constructive field theories”, which was entrusted to Arthur Jaffé and Peter Sharp 1937–2011 in Oxford. Peter’s last two difficult years of Hamlet Vartapetyan, professor of physics particle and nuclear physics in the Republic 1952 until 1957 he worked with Irène Oscar Landford. This programme exhibited I would like to thank all of those friends and life were made more bearable by all your and mathematics, and member of the of Armenia. and Frédéric Joliot-Curie in the Radium non-trivial relativistic field theories that fulfil colleagues working on CMS with Peter and encouragement and support, which was so Armenian National Academy of Sciences, Vartapetyan was born on 26 May 1927 in Institute in Paris, receiving his PhD degree the Wightman axioms but, unfortunately, at CERN who wrote and sent me such kind appreciated by both of us. passed away on 22 January 2013. A well Yerevan, Armenia. He graduated from the under Frédéric Joliot-Curie, then moving to examples remained far from matching sentiments about him after his death in March My sincere apologies to all for the delay in known Armenian scientist, he had a decisive Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie the Institut de Physique Nucléaire, Orsay, current physical models. 2011 (CERN Courier June 2011 p36). My thanking you. He was a very special person role in the establishment and development Industrielles in Paris in 1952 and from until 1958. Wightman had many other interests. In thanks also for the generous contributions, and is much missed. of theoretical and experimental research in the Sorbonne University in 1953. From In 1960 Vartapetyan began research on particular, in 1952 he co-signed with Gian which will go to the Sobell House Hospice ● Betty Sharp
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he stayed active in the field. He led the boards as well as organized and participated organized and enjoyed with his new partner the electron synchrotron at Yerevan Physics in scientific organizational matters and organization of the 2002 International in various physics outreach activities in the various cultural activities in their second Institute (YPI). In the following decades, international collaborations. His involvement Conference on High-Energy Physics in Netherlands. After a difficult period in his home in France. thanks to his efforts, the institute acquired in JINR, Dubna, was particularly important; Amsterdam, was active in scientific advisory personal life, in which he lost his wife, he ● His friends and colleagues. state-of-the-art electronic and computer for many years he had the role of liaison technology, and under his leadership representative for the Republic of Armenia. established a powerful experimental In addition, he had an important role infrastructure, where an extensive in the education and development of David Olive 1937–2012 programme in nuclear and particle physics young Armenian scientists. He lectured was successfully accomplished. at the Yerevan State University’s Physics His group achieved a series of important Department from 1968 and in the years David Olive, a pioneer of string theory who in some supersymmetric theories. The results on fundamental properties of 1969–1974 was the chair of nuclear physics. made seminal contributions to S-matrix Olive-Montonen duality emerged later elementary particles; the results on He created the Experimental Physics School theory, superstrings and gauge theories, died from a deeper web of dualities underlying photoproduction at the electron synchrotron, in Armenia and more than 20 PhD students on 7 November 2012. Among many honours, string/M theory, ushering in the second in particular, brought recognition to received their diplomas under his guidance. he was awarded the 1997 ICTP Dirac Medal, superstring revolution of the mid-1990s. Vartapetyan and his colleagues. He was In parallel, he worked successfully with shared with Peter Goddard. David moved to Imperial College in 1977, awarded the Red Flag Medal in 1971, the secondary schools on science education. Born in 1937, David was educated in becoming professor in 1984 and head of Badge of Honour in 1976 and, along with The memory of the highly respected Edinburgh and then Cambridge, where theoretical physics in 1988. He left in 1992 his colleagues, received the Republic of Hamlet Vartapetyan will forever remain in he obtained his PhD in 1963. After a for Swansea University, where he and Ian Armenia Award in Science and Technology the hearts and minds of those who had the postdoctoral appointment at the Carnegie Halliday built the theoretical particle physics for his fertile scientific work. good fortune to know and work with him. Institute in Pittsburgh, he became lecturer group, now one of the UK’s leading theory Vartapetyan also worked diligently Hamlet Vartapetyan. (Image credit: YPI.) ● Ashot Chilingarian, YPI. in the department of applied mathematics groups. At Swansea he explored the deep and theoretical physics in Cambridge in symmetries underlying integrable quantum 1965. A year later, with Richard Eden, field theories, especially affine Toda theory. Peter Landshoff and John Polkinghorne, The mathematics of symmetry was a Arthur Wightman 1922–2013 he published The Analytic S-matrix, the lifelong enthusiasm, suiting the predilection definitive text on S-matrix theory. David Olive, right, receiving the 1997 ICTP for clarity, precision and depth that In 1971, David joined the CERN Theory Dirac Medal from Miguel Angel Virasoro, at characterized all of David’s work in Arthur Strong Wightman, a mathematical of parity and charge conjugation. Division, keen to work in the stimulating a ceremony in Trieste. (Image credit: ICTP theoretical physics and made him a worthy physicist and one of the founders of Independently, at the same time, Louis group of theorists around Sergio Fubini Photo Archives.) recipient of the medal named after Dirac, axiomatic quantum field theory, passed away Michel made the observation that there is and Daniele Amati on the dual-resonance whom he admired deeply. David was a on 13 January 2013. no proof of conservation of parity in weak model, later recognized as string theory. It foundations of string theory, notably on generous supervisor and teacher, guiding Born in Rochester, NY, Arthur Wightman interactions. Wightman’s interest in weak was an enormously fruitful time, highlighted Virasoro and Kac-Moody algebras, their many PhD students who have gone on to gained his PhD in 1949 under John Wheeler interactions existed from the beginning of in his memoir “From dual fermion to representations and relationships with vertex accomplished careers around the world. at Princeton University, where he was his career. Indeed, he and Michel, together superstring” in The Birth of String Theory operators. Their work on algebras and lattices His wide circle of friends, colleagues and to spend the rest of his academic career, with Val Telegdi and Valentine Bargmann (Cappelli et al. eds, CUP 2012). His work at identified the special role played by the two collaborators remember him with respect becoming professor of mathematical physics started to write a book on weak interactions CERN, in collaboration with Lars Brink and Lie groups SO(32) and E8 × E8, which were and affection as a brilliant but unassuming in theoretical physics. that was never finished. Wightman also others, initially focused on the consistent shown by Michael Green and John Schwarz theorist whose insights have become part of The goal of axiomatic quantum field supported Barry Simon in the study of formulation of dual fermion amplitudes and to exhibit the anomaly cancellation that led to the fabric of modern theoretical physics. theory was to put on a firm mathematical nonrelativistic quantum mechanics. resulted in several major contributions to the renaissance of string theory in 1984. David was a devoted family man. He basis some of the features of local field Wightman was an enchanting lecturer string theory, including the “Gliozzi-Scherk- Another major interest concerned duality married Jenny in 1963 while at Cambridge theory in such a way as to avoid illegal Antonino Zichichi listening to a lecture by both in public and in private. He was Olive (GSO) projection” which was an symmetries in gauge field theories, which and they have daughters Katie and Rosalind. mathematical operations, which produced Arthur Wightman given in the Dirac hall at active at the Erice Ettore Majorana Centre essential step in establishing 10-dimensional played a key role in later developments As well as his continuing battles with the well known infinities of QED. the Ettore Majorana Centre for Scientific for Scientific Culture, where he founded superstring theory. His vision of string of string/M theory. In 1977, while still the game of golf, reflecting his Scottish Wightman’s axioms went one step further Culture in Erice in 1988. (Image credit: and directed the International School of theory as a unified theory of all particle at CERN, he and Claus Montonen upbringing, his days at CERN led to in terms of rigour than the preceding EMCSC.) Mathematical Physics. He was awarded the interactions, including gravity, informed his conjectured that there should exist an enthusiasms for hiking and skiing. He had a formulation of Harry Lehmann, Kurt Heineman Prize by the American Physical highly influential plenary talk at the 1974 electromagnetic dual theory in which the lifelong love of classical music, and amassed Symanzik and Wolfhart Zimmermann, Carlo Wick and Eugene Wigner a paper – the Society, and the Henri Poincaré Prize by the “Rochester” conference in London. roles of monopoles and gauge bosons are a fine collection of recordings. opening the way to the more sophisticated “WWW paper” – in which the symmetry International Association for Mathematical David’s collaboration with Peter Goddard interchanged. Subsequent work with Ed ● Ed Corrigan, Ian Drummond, Graham construction of Rudolf Haag, Huzihiro properties of elementary systems are studied Physics. led to seminal papers on the mathematical Witten showed that this duality is fulfilled Shore and Tony Sudbury. Araki and Daniel Kastler. However, it was and the notion of “superselection rules” We will miss an outstanding physicist and only with the work of Henri Epstein and is introduced. In this paper they raise, in a a wonderful person. Vladimir Glaser that ultraviolet divergences footnote, doubts on the exact conservation ● His friends at CERN. could be avoided on the basis of locality. Hamlet Vartapetyan 1927–2013 In the meantime, Wightman launched a O B i t u a r Y N O t E programme of “constructive field theories”, which was entrusted to Arthur Jaffé and Peter Sharp 1937–2011 in Oxford. Peter’s last two difficult years of Hamlet Vartapetyan, professor of physics particle and nuclear physics in the Republic 1952 until 1957 he worked with Irène Oscar Landford. This programme exhibited I would like to thank all of those friends and life were made more bearable by all your and mathematics, and member of the of Armenia. and Frédéric Joliot-Curie in the Radium non-trivial relativistic field theories that fulfil colleagues working on CMS with Peter and encouragement and support, which was so Armenian National Academy of Sciences, Vartapetyan was born on 26 May 1927 in Institute in Paris, receiving his PhD degree the Wightman axioms but, unfortunately, at CERN who wrote and sent me such kind appreciated by both of us. passed away on 22 January 2013. A well Yerevan, Armenia. He graduated from the under Frédéric Joliot-Curie, then moving to examples remained far from matching sentiments about him after his death in March My sincere apologies to all for the delay in known Armenian scientist, he had a decisive Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie the Institut de Physique Nucléaire, Orsay, current physical models. 2011 (CERN Courier June 2011 p36). My thanking you. He was a very special person role in the establishment and development Industrielles in Paris in 1952 and from until 1958. Wightman had many other interests. In thanks also for the generous contributions, and is much missed. of theoretical and experimental research in the Sorbonne University in 1953. From In 1960 Vartapetyan began research on particular, in 1952 he co-signed with Gian which will go to the Sobell House Hospice ● Betty Sharp
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