People and Things

People and things graphy at IBM's own research source i$ being designed and built On people centre. for IBM by Oxford Instruments in X-rays, with their shorter wave the UK, and a $20 million contract length, overcome the resolution has been awarded to Maxwell-Bro- Helen Edwards, Head of Fermilab's problems inherent in optical litho beck of San Diego for a source for Accelerator Division, has been graphy, and the development of the Center for Advanced Micro- awarded a prestigious MacArthur new compact X-ray synchrotron structures and Devices at Louisiana Fellowship by the Chicago-based light sources for chip manufacture State University, Baton Rouge. MacArthur Foundation in recogni is being pushed hard in several tion of her key9role in the construc countries. Brookhaven has been tion and commissioning of Fermi- hosen as the site for a new super lab's Tevatron ring. conducting X-ray lithography The face of chips to come. Electron micro scope picture of a chip developed by IBM source in a $207 million US De using an X-ray beam from the US National partment of Defense programme Synchrotron Light Source at Brookhaven. The 1988 Dirac Medals of the In (story next month). Metal lines, less than a micron across, con nect to transistors (seen as small dark cir ternational Centre for Theoretical Meanwhile a compact X-ray cles) half a micron in diameter. Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy, have been awarded to Efim Samoilovich Fradkin of the Lebedev Physical In stitute, Moscow, and to David Gross of Princeton. Fradkin's award marks his many fruitful contributions to quantum field theory and statistics: function al methods, basic results applicable to a range of field theories, the quantization of relativistic systems, etc., which have gone on to play a vital role in modern theories of fields, strings and membranes. Gross, with F. Wilczek, and in dependently H. Politzer and G. 't Hooft, discovered 'asymptotic free dom' in the theory of quark fields, thus explaining how quarks can be both locked inside nucleons under ordinary conditions and be tracta ble as free particles in field theory calculations. Later he went on to contribute to the invention of the 'heterotic' string, opening the door to new understanding in the quest to unify the basic forces of physics through the theory of strings. John Peoples becomes Deputy Di rector of Fermilab. Research Divi sion Head from 1975-80, Peoples went on in 1981 to become Head of Fermilab s Antiproton Source Project. CERN Courier, October 1988 31 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE ASSISTANT PROFESSOR FACULTY POSITION IN The Department of Physics, EXPERIMENTAL RELATIVISTS University of Wisconsin-Madison anticipates one or more tenure track HEAVY ION COLLISIONS positions at the assistant professor level to begin Fall, 1989 or later. The Department of physics at the University of California, Applicants should provide evidence of Riverside expects to make a faculty appointment in the area teaching skills and ability to carry out of Experimental Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions during the an independent research program. 1988-89 academic year. Preference will be given to nuclear Individuals with a background in experimental nuclear/parti physics experimentalists, to cle physics are invited to apply. The level of appointment will condensed matter theorists, and to be that of Assistant Professor (tenure-track) or, for an excep tionally qualified individual with an established record in particle theorists/phenomenologists. research, an Associate Professor (tenure) appointment can Apply to be considered. Martin Olsson Chair The individual appointed will be expected to join the ongoing Riverside research program in relativistic heavy ion colli Department of Physics, UW-MSN sions. 1150 University Avenue Madison Please send a resume and request that at least three letters of reference be sent to Wl53706 Chair, Search Committee, by November 15, 1988. The Experimental Relativistic Heavy ion Collisions Department of Physics University of Wisconsin is an equal University of California opportunity/affirmative action Riverside, CA 92521 employer and especially encourages The University of California, Riverside is an Equal Opportu women and minorities to apply. nity, Affirmative Action Employer. For the discerning customer it's MAINTENANCE ENGINEER Battig Valves. - Everytime! I am seeking qualified candidates for a full- time permanent position as Maintenance Engineer. Equipments to be maintained are Fastbus and VME modules and power supplies manufactured by Dr. B.Struck & Co. of Hamburg and installed at CERN. The candidates are expected to be experienced electronics engineers, familiar with Fastbus and/or VME. Fluency in English is essential. Knowledge of French and German are an advantage. The successful candidate is expected to relocate to the French "Pays de Gex" nearby CERN after an initial training period in Hamburg. Letters of application, including a CV, must be sent to: Julien BERGOZ CROZET Alfred Battig AG 01170 Gex, France CH-8400 Winterthur/Switzerland Phone: Telex: Telefax: Candidates of any nationality may apply 052/25 27 69 896 371 valv ch 052/25 02 24 32 CERN Courier, October 1988 Simon van der Meer of CERN at this year's gathering of Nobel laureates in the Bavarian island town of Lindau, Lake Constance. In itiated in 1951 by Count Lennart Bernadotte, these annual Lindau Nobel meetings alter nate between chemistry, medicine and phy sics. Bruno Pontecorvo - 75 this year (Photo Jacobs, Lindau) In August scientists at the Joint In Humboldt Foundation. He has TRIUMF reorganization stitute for Nuclear Research, Dub- spent most of his career at Bonn, na, USSR, celebrated the 75th where he was a prime mover be birthday of Bruno Pontecorvo, De hind the electron synchrotron, the With $11 million in pre-construc- partment Head in the Laboratory of first European accelerator to use tion funds for the proposed KAON Nuclear Problems. From the illus the alternating gradient technique. Factory, a major reorganization trious Fermi school, Pontecorvo At CERN from 1964-7, he was first took place at the Canadian TRIUMF has spent most of his scientific car joint Head of the Nuclear Physics laboratory in Vancouver on Sep eer in the USSR. Well known for Division, then Director of Physics I tember 1. Alan Astbury heads the his fundamental contributions to Department. He was Chairman of new project, organized in three di neutrino physics, where among the Scientific Policy Committee visions: Accelerator (M.K. Crad- other things he has played pioneer from 1975-77. dock), Science (P. Kitching), and roles in the quest to measure the Technical (E. W. Blackmore). The neutrino's mass and in the idea of existing programme is reduced to neutrino oscillations, he has also four divisions, with the old Science and Experimental Facilities Divi furthered our understanding of the 1982 Nobel Prizewinner and Direc sions amalgamated under J.-M. muon and other particles. tor of Cornell Theory Center Ken Poutissou, who also acts as Asso neth Wilson is leaving Cornell for ciate Director. Larry Trueman is Brookhaven s Ohio State. new Associate Director for High Energy and Nuclear Physics, replac ing Robert K. Adair, who returns to Luis Alvarez Yale. In addition to his particle phy Stanford's CERN Courier corre sics accomplishments Adair is offi spondent Michael Riordan is the Berkeley pioneer and 1968 Nobel cial physicist to the US National 1988 winner of the American Insti laureate Luis Alvarez, who deve Baseball League. tute of Physics Science Writing loped Donald Glaser's bubble Award in Physics and Astronomy chamber idea into a versatile phys August marked the 75th birthday for his book 'The Hunting of the ics tool, died on 1 September, of Wolfgang Paul, President of the Quark'. aged 77. CERN Courier, October 1988 33 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE DESY in Hamburg FACULTY POSITION IN DESY s has an opening for a EXPERIMENTAL ASTROPHYSICS As part of a planned expansion in the area of astrophysics, the Physics Deparment at the University of California, River SENIOR SCIENTIST side is seeking outstanding candidates for a faculty position in experimental astrophysics beginning July 1, 1989. The IN THEORETICAL ELEMENTARY appointment will be at an open level. Qualified candidates with established records in research and teaching are invited PARTICLE PHYSICS to apply. Existing programs at UCR in this area are gamma ray astro It is intended to appoint a scientist whose re physics from MeV to TeV, solar and atmospheric neutron observations, and neutrino astrophysics. The successful search is closely related to experimental particle candidate will be expected to teach at the undergraduate and physics. graduate levels and to lead a vigorous and significant re A tenured position is offered with a saiary equi search program. Candidates should submit a curriculum vitae, statement of research interests, and arrange to have valent to that of a full professor at a German three letters of recommendation sent to: university (C4). Chair, Search Committee Applications and proposals for candidates are Experimental Astrophysics invited to be sent before Nov. 10, 1988, to Physics Department University of California, Riverside Prof. V. Soergel Riverside, CA 92521 Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY Completed applications received through December 31, NotkestraBe 85, D-2000 Hamburg 52 1988 will be screened. Further information about the position in ques The University of California, Riverside is an Equal Opportunity tion can be obtained from Prof. V. Soergel. Affirmative Action Employer. 34 CERN Courier, October 1988 Heinz Pagels As announced briefly in our pre vious issue, Heinz Pagels, particle physicist, gifted popularizer of science and executive director of the New York Academy of Sciences, diedJn a climbing acci dent in July with his former student at Rockefeller University Seth Lloyd, while they were attending the Aspen Physics Centre. While Pagels was at Rockefeller, his book The Cosmic Code' was published in 1982, and he turned to fresh pastures at the New York Academy of Sciences.

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