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Lawrence S. Card man becomes associate director at the Thomas Jefferson National Nicholas Samios - 15 years as Director of Accelerator Facility (formerly CEBAF), Brookhaven National Laboratory. Newport News, Virginia.

External correspondents

Argonne National Laboratory, (USA) D. Ayres

Brookhaven, National Laboratory, (USA) P. Yamin

CEBAF Laboratory, (USA) S. Corneliussen

Cornell University, (USA) D. G. Cassel

DESY Laboratory, (Germany) Ilka Flegel, P. Waloschek

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, (USA) Judy Jackson GSI Darmstadt, (Germany) Advanced Research Centre has G. Siegert On people been elected a Permanent Member INFN, () of the Academy of Athens. A. Pascolini After 15 years, Nicholas Samios IHEP, , () steps down as Director of Qi Nading Prize JINR , (Russia) Brookhaven National Laboratory on B. Starchenko 30 April, returning to full-time KEK National Laboratory, () research as Distinguished Scientist. S. Iwata Among the many highlights of this The 1996 Bruno Pontecorvo Prize of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, (USA) tenure is his success in initiating and B. Feinberg guiding the development of Research (Dubna) has been Los Alamos National Laboratory, (USA) Brookhaven's RHIC Relativistic awarded to two well-known Russian C. Hoffmann Heavy Ion Collider, scheduled to theorists - Lev Okun for theoretical NIKHEF Laboratory, (Netherlands) begin operation in 1999. elementary and to Margriet van der Heijden Semen Gerstein for the theoretical Novosibirsk Institute, (Russia) John J, Domingo has stepped down research in the field of electroweak S. Eidelman after a decade as associate director interactions (Photo page 29). Orsay Laboratory, (France) Anne-Marie Lutz and head of Physics Division at the The Bruno Pontecorvo Prize is Thomas Jefferson National awarded to a single scientist, or PSI Laboratory, () P.-R. Kettle Accelerator Facility (formerly exceptionally to a group of up to CEBAF), Newport News, Virginia, three scientists, for outstanding Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, (UK) Jacky Hutchinson during which time he has helped plan research in particle physics. Brief Saclay Laboratory, (France) and launch the new Laboratory's abstracts of the research, if possible Elisabeth Locci research programme. Lawrence S. enclosing copies of major papers, IHEP, Serpukhov, (Russia) Cardman, formerly at the University should be received not later than Yu. Ryabov of Illinois, and Domingo's recent 1 August by: Prof. S.Bunyatov, Joint Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, (USA) deputy, becomes the new associate Institute for Nuclear Research, M. Riordan director. Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, TRIUMF Laboratory, (Canada) 141 980 Dubna, Region, M. K. Craddock Theorist Dimitri Nanopoulos of Texas Russia. Phone: (709621) 65880, A&M and Head of the Center for Fax: (709621) 66666 E-mail: Astroparticle Physics at the Houston [email protected]

CERN Courier, May 1997 23 MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT FUR PHYSIK MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT FUR PHYSIK (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut) (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut)

The Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik, Miinchen, The Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik, Miinchen, offers the position of an offers the position of an

EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICIST (PH.D.) EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICIST (PH.D.)

with experience in high-energy particle physics and with experience in high-energy particle physics. detector development. The applicant is expected to The applicant is expected to participate in the data taking participate at MPI in the preparation of the STAR heavy- and the