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Dirac Prize Goes to Interdisciplinary Scientist PEOPLE PEOPLE AWARDS Dirac prize goes to interdisciplinary scientist The Dirac medal and prize this computation in the brain could be. year goes to Prof. John J Hopfield More recently, Hopfield has found of Princeton, who has made impor­ an entirely different organizing prin­ tant contributions in an ciple in olfaction and demonstrated impressively broad.spectrum of a new principle in which neural scientific subjects. His special and function can take advantage of the rare gift is his ability to cross the temporal structure of the "spiking" interdisciplinary boundary to interneural communication. discover new questions and pro­ The award, from the Abdus Salam pose answers that uncover the International Centre forTheoretical conceptual structure behind the Physics in Trieste, Italy, is intended experimental facts. "to honour and encourage high-level His early research on light emit­ research in the fields of physics and ting diodes has been recognized mathematics" and usually reflects by the award of the American the purely theoretical orientation of Physical Society's Buckley prize for the centre's mainstream research. condensed matter physics. In John J Hopfield of Princeton - ICTP Dirac medal winner. Commenting on the award, Hopfield biology he understood the need said: "I am pleased that the rather for and proposed the "proof-reading" principle in equilibrium processes. His famous model of different kind of theory which needs to be by which the replication mechanism manages neural processing demonstrated how qualita­ done in connection with biology could be to achieve accuracy far beyond that possible tively different computation in a computer and recognized by such a community of theorists." Toshi-Aki Shibata Prizes awarded at French conference of Tokyo's Institute of Technology At the biennial conference of the French microlensing effect and searching for dark received this year's Physical Society (SFP), which was held in compact halo objects. Philipp Franz von Strasbourg at the beginning of July, awards The Joliot-Curie prize, which is given bienni­ Siebold award from were given to physicists for their work. ally to a particle physicist, was awarded to the Federal The Ricard prize for "very original work in Yannis Karyotakis from Annecy. He was a German govern­ physics" was given to Yves Déclais, director of member of the L3 experiment at CERN and is ment. This is given the Institut de Physique Nucléaire of Lyon. He now the technical coordinator of the BaBar annually to a young was head of the neutrino oscillation search experiment at SLAC, recently observing for the Japanese (aged under 50 years) who has experiment located close to the CHOOZ first time CP violation in the system of the contributed significantly to Japanese- nuclear plant, in the French Ardennes.This beauty mesons. German cultural and social exchange. experiment eliminated the possibility that the The Gentner-Kastler prize is jointly given by Shibata has participated in various oscillation between electronic and muon the SFP and the German DPG (Deutsche experiments at CERN from 1982 as a neutrinos is the source of the atmospheric Physikalische Gesellschaft) to a physicist who member of the Mainz and Heidelberg neutrino disappearance observed by Kamioka. has made outstanding contributions in their groups, first on low-energy The Robin prize rewards a physicist for field.The prize is given to a French physicist antiproton-proton scattering at CERN's his/her whole career. It was given this time to one year and a German physicist the next. LEAR low-energy antiproton ring, and then Jacques Haissinski from Orsay, a pioneer of This year it was awarded to Konrad in deep-inelastic scattering studies using electron-positron collisions and a former Kleinknecht from Mainz. He was a member of high-energy muon beams at CERN's SPS chairman of CERN's LEP Experiments the famous CDHS neutrino experiment at synchrotron. Returning to Japan, he Committee. CERN and of the Aleph experiment at LEP He is maintained his German connections by Haissinski was also spokesman of the also one of the pioneers of kaon physics, being joining the HERMES collaboration at DESY's CELLO Experiment atDESYand head of the in particular a very active member of the NA31 HERA electron-proton collider in Hamburg. DAPNIA service at Saclay. He is currently co- and NA48 experiments at CERN which resulted He is pictured receiving the award from spokesman of the EROS Experiment, in the discovery and measurement of direct CP Federal German president Johannes Rau. investigating galactic structures through the violation in kaon decays. CERN Courier October 2001 39 PEOPLE MEETINGS Diamond ring project has a new leader Gerhard Materlik has been appointed chief executive officer for the multinational DIA­ MOND synchrotron radiation ring project at the UK Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (CERN Courier May 2000 p7). He transfers from DESY in Hamburg, where Jack Steinberger, 1988 Nobel prizewinner, addressing a group of eager listeners at the 51st he has been an associate director of the annual meeting of Nobel laureates, which was held in Lindau, Germany. HASYLAB synchrotron radiation laboratory. Since 1995 he has been coordinating the X- The 51st Annual Meeting of Nobel ments and prospects in particle physics; Ray Free-Electron Laser Project at DESY Laureates, the seventeenth dedicated to fundamental physics from ground and space; (CERN Courier July 2000). physics, was held in Lindau, Germany, at the extrasolar planets, and future perspectives at The building of the new DIAMOND synchro­ end of June. More than 600 students and ESO, CERN and ESA. tron, in partnership with the Wellcome Trust, young researchers, not only from Europe but Review speakers include R Battiston, P de was announced in 1998, and the French also from the US and India, came for the Bernardis, C Cesarsky, K Danzmann, J Ellis, government joined the project during the opportunity to meet 18 Nobel laureates. F Gianotti, F Halzen, G Hasinger, P Hernandez, following year. Following lectures and debating on applica­ B Leibundgut, P Madau, L Maiani, M. Mayor, tions arising from basic research, or on the role Y Mellier, M Perryman, R Plaga, G Raffelt, of physics in the life sciences, the students M Rees, B Schutz, D Southwood, CTao, Uggerhoj retires could discuss the sciences or science careers NTurok, E van den Heuvel, E van Dishoeck, with the prizewinners of their choice. M Vietri, S Vitale, A Watson and LWoltjer. Erik Uggerhoj of Aarhus, Denmark, who cele­ A large number of posters are also antici­ brated his 70th birthday in September, is The ESO-CERN-ESA Symposium on pated, with exciting recent results from the formally retiring. As the dynamic founding Astronomy, Cosmology and Fundamental communities of the three organizations, and director of the Institute for Storage Ring Physics will be held in Garching, Germany, on there will be special poster sessions in the Facilities at Aarhus, he set the institute on a 4-7 March, 2002. programme.There will also be a limited num­ clear path towards innovation and ensured This symposium is the first to be co-organized ber of contributed talks. the worldwide reputation that it now enjoys. and co-sponsored by all three organizations. It More details, registration and accommoda­ He is also a well known figure at CERN, is intended to give a broad overview of scien­ tion forms are available at "http://www.eso. having been the colourful spokesman for a tific areas of interest to the communities of org/gen-fac/meetings/symp2002" or contact possibly unprecedented number of experi­ the three organizations: current observational symposium secretaries Christina Staffer and ments, dating back to 1974. His enthusiasm cosmology, including the microwave back­ Britt Sjoeberg, European Southern for and insight into particle channelling in ground fluctuations and new constraints on Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2, crystals has led to numerous fruitful develop­ the cosmological parameters; searches for 85748, Garching bei Muenchen, Germany; ments in beam handling. dark matter; high-energy astrophysics e-mail "[email protected]"; fax +49 89 (sources and backgrounds); recent develop­ 32006 480. European board The 9th international Conference on Supersymmetry and Unification of The new chairman of the European Physical Fundamental Interactions took place recently Society's High-Energy Particle Physics Board at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, is Michel Spiro of Saclay. He will take over Dubna, near Moscow. This year is the 30th from Giora Mikenbergof theWeizmann anniversary of the discovery of supersymmetry Institute in Israel, who has presided for the (CERN Courier March pl9). past two years over the European board. 40 CERN Courier October 2001 PEOPLE Change of director at NIKHEF, Amsterdam Maurice Goldhaber On 22 June a sympo­ 1983 to 1988. In the celebrates 90th sium, Past and Future intervening period he Policies on Facilities was the spokesman for Nuclear and for the New Muon High-Energy Physics Collaboration at Research, held at CERN.This period NIKHEF, Amsterdam, and the results marked the retire­ obtained in muon- ment of Gervan scattering Middelkoop as experiments at CERN director of the were recalled at the laboratory and as symposium by professor of physics Ger van Middelkoop (right), with Jos Dietrich von Harrach at Amsterdam's Vrije Engelen, his successor as director of the (Mainz). Universiteit. Originally NIKHEF laboratory. The other main He's 90 years young - Maurice Goldhaber a nuclear physicist, speakers at the sym­ (centre) with birthday symposium speakers he "converted", as he put it, to particle posium were CERN research director Roger (left to right) Martin Deutsch, William physics. He has played an important role in Cashmore, on "LHC experiments: the science, Marciano, Norman Ramsey and Stuart restructuring particle and nuclear physics in the technology and the organization" and Freedman. the Netherlands and their incorporation under DESY director Albrecht Wagner, on future the NIKHEF umbrella.
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