Nobel Laureates Receive the Science for Peace Erice Prize

CERN Courier May 2 011 Faces & Places

A w a r d s Nobel laureates receive the Science for Peace Erice Prize

Werner Arber, Yuan T Lee, Gerardus Better known in the particle-physics ’t Hooft and Samuel Ting are the 2010 community are ’t Hooft and Ting, who laureates of the Science for Peace Erice received the Nobel in physics in 1989 and Prize. 1976, respectively. ’t Hooft’s Nobel-prize This prize was instituted in 1988 by the work is reflected in his citation for the Sicilian parliament at the request of the Erice prize, awarded for “his discovery of World Federation of Scientists (WFS) on the negative sign of the β-function in the the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the most critical period of crisis for relativistic Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre quantum field theory, which he brought to for Scientific Culture (EMFCSC). It is new life with his fundamental contributions awarded to world leaders in science and to understand the renormalization processes, scientific culture, and to those who have thus paving the road to quantum gravity, played an essential role in promoting and Sam Ting, left, one of four Nobel laureates supergravity, superstring theories, including implementing the goals outlined in the who received the Science for Peace Erice the nature of black holes”. The citation Erice Statement: Science for Peace, written Prize from Antonino Zichichi, right, at the for Ting similarly recognizes his early in 1982 by Paul Dirac, Pyotr Kapitza and end of January. (Image credit: WFS.) work that earned him the Nobel prize as Antonino Zichichi, the current president of well as his more recent contributions. He the EMFCSC. Yuan T Lee is recognized for “his receives the Erice prize for “his discovery Werner Arber receives the prize for “his discoveries to determine the structure of the J-particle, the first ‘narrow’ state fundamental contributions to unravel the and chemical behaviour of highly reactive in subnuclear physics, which gave rise mechanisms which promote and limit polyatomic radicals and unusual transient to the so-called ‘November revolution’, the spontaneous variation of genetic species; for his achievements in the from where a great step forward came in information in micro-organisms; for his basic chemical reactions and primary the understanding of the logic of nature, theory of molecular evolution which puts photo-dissociation processes; for his whose most recent frontier is the search for on a scientific basis the fact that nature studies to modify chemical reactivity; for antimatter in space”. cares actively for biological evolution, thus his contributions to the development of In the ceremony at the Vatican, each allowing us to understand and evaluate methods to detect, directly, the transient laureate was invited to present current the risks of genetic engineering”. Arber intermediates that are critical in combustion projects, followed by discussions with received the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology and atmospheric processes”. In 1986 he members of the WFS. The ceremony or Medicine together with Daniel Nathans was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry continued with a visit to the Galileo Galilei and Hamilton O Smith for the discovery of jointly with Dudley R Herschbach and John exhibition inside the Renaissance church restriction enzymes and their application to C Polanyi for their work on the dynamics of Santa Maria degli Angeli and ended with a problems of molecular genetics. chemical elementary processes. midnight concert in the church. Indian Nuclear Society honours Kakodkar

Anil Kakodkar, former chair of the Indian and maintenance and, safety or education Atomic Energy Commission and secretary in fields related to nuclear sciences and to the Department of Atomic Energy has technology. Kakodkar has strong links been awarded the Indian Nuclear Society’s with CERN, for example leading the Indian Homi Bhabha Lifetime Achievement Award delegation at its first time as an Observer at 2009. The award was presented at the 21st CERN Council in June 2003 (CERN Courier Annual Conference of the Indian Nuclear September 2003 p43). Society, held in Mumbai in January. The award is given in recognition of outstanding Anil Kakodkar, left, receives the award from lifetime achievement in research, technology Yukiya Amano, director-general of the development, management, operation IAEA. (Image credit: INS.)

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Michel Davier. (Image credit: IN2P3.) Michel Davier receives André Italian president, Giorgio Napolitano, far left, spent time in the ATLAS control room, as part of a Lagarrigue Prize visit to CERN on 4 March. Here he is sitting with CERN’s director-general, Rolf Heuer, while ATLAS spokesperson, Fabiola Gianotti, and CERN’s director for research and scientific computing, Michel Davier, physics professor at the Sergio Bertolucci, look on from the right. The president also viewed CERN’s permanent exhibition, University of Paris-Sud 11, has been the Universe of Particles, located in the Globe of Science and Innovation, and addressed the Italian awarded the 2010 André Lagarrigue community at CERN. Prize. A worldwide authority in particle physics, Davier is recognized for his deep understanding of physics and of O u t r e a c h experimental devices of great complexity as well as his passion and talent for teaching ALICE physicist and for educational outreach. The prize, instituted by the Linear Accelerator Laboratory (LAL) at Orsay, features in book under the aegis of the French Physical Society, is awarded to front-line researchers about Mexico who have had responsibility for machine and detector construction and derived maximum The recently published book Uno + Uno: scientific benefit from such projects, 32 líderes sumando por México (32 Leaders performed in a French laboratory or in close Stand Up for Mexico) contains reflections collaboration with French groups. about the future of Mexico by 32 people born Davier has played a leading role in particle in the 1970s or early 1980s, from different physics, especially within the CELLO walks of life. Representing science is Daniel (DESY), ALEPH (CERN) and BaBar Tapia Takaki of the ALICE collaboration, (SLAC) collaborations, and is a former who presents his views on the role of public leader of the French-Italian Virgo project for education in Mexico and how knowledge a laser interferometer to detect gravitational can be a focus for change in many areas, waves. He was director of LAL from 1985 to such as politics, culture, sport, science and 1994 and – under his mandate – LAL built technology. the LEP Injector Linac for CERN and the The book was written by two journalists, linear accelerator for the CLIO free-electron Paula Odorica and Carlos Mota. Other laser facility in Orsay. contributors include the international Devoting himself to both theoretical football player Rafael Márquez, pop star Daniel Tapia Takaki at his degree ceremony and experimental studies of the strong Paulina Rubio, actress Kate del Castillo and in Birmingham in 2008. (Image credit: interaction, Davier has become one of the photographer Pablo López Luz. Orlando Villalobos Baillie.) world’s leading experts in this field. His work on the muon magnetic moment suggests new physics that may soon be confirmed boson. Davier also excels in explaining honour of Lagarrigue, who was director at the LHC, while his measurements of the mysteries of the subatomic world to a of LAL from 1969 until his untimely the τ, among others, have led to the most large audience, a talent that is revealed in death in 1975. It is sponsored jointly by accurate measurement of the strong numerous courses, books, radio programmes CNRS/IN2P3, CEA, CERN, the Ecole interaction coupling and contributed to and public presentations Polytechnique, LAL and Paris-Sud 11 indirect constraints on the mass of the Higgs The prize is awarded every other year in University.

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Hiden Analytical has announced a new Australian senator, minister for purpose-designed HPR-90 precision gas innovation, industry, science analyser for measurement of the static fill-gas and research, Kim Carr, second and of the residual gases within diverse vessel from right, visited CERN on types, ranging from multi-litre electric lamps 14 March. His tour included the and florescent tubes to electronic devices with ATLAS visitor centre, where he volumes of 10 microlitres. Hiden has also was accompanied by, from left introduced a range of quadrupole residual to right, Emmanuel Tsesmelis, gas analysers for pressures ranging from adviser for Australia, Fabiola millibar through to extreme high vacuum. Gianotti, ATLAS spokesperson, The single-step mass filters are for general and Geoffrey Taylor, team leader applications, with the 3F-series triple-stage for the University of Melbourne mass filter being for the most demanding of in the ATLAS collaboration. The applications. For more information, contact minister also met Australian Jessica Neale, tel +44 1925 445 225, fax +44 scientists working at CERN. 1925 416 518, e-mail [email protected], or see www.hidenanalytical.com.

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O b i t u a r y Stewart Christian Loken 1943–2011

Stewart Loken, an accomplished Stu created the forerunners of today’s experimental physicist and scientific Computing Sciences, Creative Services, computing leader, passed away on and Information Technology organizations 19 February after an 18-year battle with there. He helped create the US Department cancer. of Energy’s high-speed network (ESnet) Stewart, or “Stu”, was born in Montreal and attract the National Energy Research on 16 February 1943. He received his BSc Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) from McMaster in 1965 and earned a PhD to LBNL. There, Stu worked effectively in physics at Caltech in 1972 under Barry to develop NERSC into a resource used Barish. After a postdoctoral appointment by a vibrant, nationwide community. at Cornell, Stu spent the next 37 years at During this period he retained his enduring Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory interest in particle-physics computing, (LBNL), where he became senior scientist in strongly influencing choices of networking 1981. He became a US citizen in 1991. and software tools and methodologies in As a postdoc in the first muon-scattering that field. He was elected a Fellow of the experiment at Fermilab (E-26), Stu built American Physical Society in 1990. one of the earliest data-acquisition systems After returning to LBNL’s Physics managed by a powerful byte-oriented Division as its deputy-director (2000–2010), minicomputer. He made major contributions Stu touched every aspect of its programme. to analysis of the experiment’s surprising He developed a special interest in ATLAS result – the first observation of logarithmic computing and in the Nearby Supernova violation of Bjorken scaling in deep-inelastic Factory, where as project manager he played lepton-nucleon scattering. This was a key role in securing funding and organizing early evidence for the theory of QCD. the data processing. With characteristic Subsequently, during 1976–1979 he oversaw optimism, during the past year Stu took much of the construction of Fermilab’s Stu Loken. (Image credit: LBNL.) on new responsibilities in the LUX dark E-203/391 multimuon spectrometer and matter search planned for the Homestake co-ordinated collection of the data, which analog delay lines, and he also supervised mine. Committed to outreach, he was an extended the E-26 discovery. In 1980 several PEP-4 students. enthusiastic leader in QuarkNet, which Stu initiated and secured approval for an In 1984, after reports of anomalies in trains and supports physics teachers. additional run (E-640) of the spectrometer proton–antiproton collisions at CERN, Stu’s passion extended equally to his in the new muon beam from Fermilab’s Stu persuaded his E-640 collaborators to personal life. He was a skier, sea kayaker, Tevatron. suspend preparation for their experiment in scuba diver and a lover of classical music, Remarkably, while amassing these order to join the nascent DØ collaboration as well as lifelong recreational cyclist, accomplishments at Fermilab, Stu found at the Tevatron proton–antiproton collider. twice circling Lake Tahoe as a leukaemia time to contribute centrally to LBNL’s There he represented a large group of LBNL survivor. Stu is survived by Geanie, his close time-projection chamber experiment participants, helped to build DØ’s first vertex companion and wife of 40 years, daughter (PEP-4) at SLAC. He designed the chamber, and pushed strongly for coherent Kristen, son Scott, and two sisters. All those data-acquisition architecture for both the design of its software. who have known him treasure his memory prototype and the main experiment, which As director of LBNL’s Information and and admire his courage. introduced the large-scale use of CCDs as Computing Sciences Division (1988–2000), ●● Mark Strovink and Ronald Madaras, LBNL.

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