FACES AND PLACES APPOINTMENTS Lockyer to become next TRIUMF director… Nigel Lockyer will be the next director of of physics at the University of Pennsylvania TRIUMF, as announced by the chair of the since 1984, his research has focused on TRIUMF Board of Management, Feridun high-energy particle-physics, most recently at Hamdullahpur. Lockyer brings to TRIUMF a FermiLab, where he was co-spokesperson for wealth of experience and knowledge, along the CDF experiment in 2002–4. with strong management and interpersonal His other interests include medical skills. He takes over from Alan Shotter, who applications of physics, in particular will step down after five years on 1 May. positron-emission tomography and proton Lockyer was born in Scotland and raised cancer therapy, both of which are important in Canada. He gained a BSc degree in 1975 parts of TRIUMF’s applied programme. In from York University in Toronto and a PhD from 2006 he received the APS Panofsky Prize Ohio State University in 1980. A professor Lockyer will take over at TRIUMF in May. (CERN Courier December 2005 p33). …while Chattopadhyay moves to Crockcroft Swapan Chattopadhyay, currently associate These new appointments reflect director of Jefferson Lab, is to become the Chattopadhyay’s contributions to phase inaugural director for the newly created space cooling, innovative particle colliders, Crockcroft Institute – one of the UK’s two novel synchrotron-radiation production and new centres for accelerator science and ultra-short femtosecond X-ray sources. His technology. In addition, the universities of achievements also include the development Lancaster, Liverpool and Manchester have of postgraduate education in accelerator made him the first chair of Accelerator physics and engineering and a number of Physics in the UK. He will take up his new successful industrial collaborations with position in March. hi-tech commercial partners. AWARDS Nanopoulos receives 2006 Onassis prize HEPP calls for 2007 Dimitri Nanopoulos has won the 2006 prize nominations Onassis International Prize for his achievements in the natural sciences. The EPS High Energy Particle Physics Board Established by the Onassis Foundation (HEPP) is calling for nominations for its in 1978, the International Prizes Program Young Physicist Prize, the Gribov Medal and honours individuals and organizations for the Outreach Prize. This year HEPP will award services in specific areas, including culture, the prizes in a ceremony at the International social contribution and the environment. Europhysics Conference on High Energy The prize is not necessarily given every year Nanopoulos (centre) receives the Onassis Physics on 19–25 July in Manchester. – this was the first award since 2000. prize from the President of the Hellenic Information on these prizes can be found on Nanopoulos pioneered some of the Republic, Karolos Papoulias (right). the HEPP Board website at http://eps-hepp. most important links between the present web.cern.ch/eps-hepp/prizes.html together understanding of astroparticle and particle brain function. Nanopoulos currently holds with the list of the former prize winners. physics and the ultimate unification of the Heep Chair in Particle Physics at Texas Nominations for the Young Physicist Prize the universe with superstrings. His many A&M University, and in 2005, he became and Gribov Medal should be sent to David contributions to research have had an impact president of the Greek National Council for Wark ([email protected]) before 15 April, and on related fields ranging from particle physics Research and Technology and also Greece’s nominations for the Outreach Prize to Jorma and cosmology to fundamental quantum national representative to both CERN and Tuominiemi ([email protected]) theory and quantum-inspired models of ESA councils. before 15 April. CERN Courier January/February 2007 37 CCJanFebFaces.indd 37 17/1/07 09:51:50 FACES AND PLACES Freedom prize honours Zichichi Liberal International, the world network of Zichichi is also the co-founder of the World liberal and democratic parties, has awarded Federation of Scientists (WFS), which Antonino Zichichi its prestigious Prize for promotes international collaboration, and has Freedom, which each year recognizes led the fight against planetary emergencies extraordinary contributions made by for more than 20 years. He was president individuals towards freedom, democracy, rule of the NATO Committee of Disarmament, of law and peace. In the ceremony in London and an EEC representative in the Scientific on 12 December, Lord Alderdice, president Committee of the International Centre for of Liberal International, praised Zichichi Science and Technology in Moscow. for his contribution to science, particularly In his acceptance speech, a lecture emphasizing his 40 year contribution to entitled From the Nuclear War Emergency to peace, progress and freedom worldwide. the Cultural Emergency – The Contribution In 1962, Zichichi founded the Ettore of the World Federation of Scientists to the Majorana Centre and Centre of Scientific Planetary Emergencies, Zichichi argued that Culture in Erice, Italy, which has become a Zichichi, who receives the Prize for Freedom. the production of nuclear energy should be leading physics-research centre. Since 1986, managed so as to guarantee the availability he has presided over the World Laboratory, and projects in developing countries, where of the energy necessary per capita to which works in collaboration with developed 1000 international and 30 000 national everyone the world over, and not just the countries and aims to support scientific elites scholarships have already been granted. privileged few. FPS awards new Prix André Viyogi receives 2006 Helmholtz– Lagarrigue to Lefrançois Humboldt award Jacques Lefrançois has received a new The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation prestigious award created in honour of has granted Yogendra Pathak Viyogi a 2006 André Lagarrigue. The French Physics Helmholtz–Humboldt research award for his Society (FPS) has instituted the prize on outstanding contributions to experimental the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the physics, including front-ranking programmes Orsay Linear Accelerator Laboratory (LAL). in nuclear physics and the study of quark– Lagarrigue, well known for his leading role in gluon plasma. the discovery of weak neutral currents with Viyogi designed, developed and built the Gargamelle bubble chamber at CERN in photon multiplicity detectors at CERN’s 1973, was director of LAL from 1969 until Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS), the his death in 1975. The new prize, which is Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider at Brookhaven co-financed by the FPS with the CEA, CERN, National Laboratory, and the ALICE Ecole Polytechnique, IN2P3, LAL and the Lefrançois, who wins the Lagarrigue prize. experiment at CERN. His group discovered University Paris Sud 11, will reward a senior hydrodynamic-like emission patterns in physicist who, in the spirit of Lagarrigue, has implementation and data handling of NA3, relativistic heavy-ion collisions at the SPS led the construction of large experimental the first large dimuon experiment at CERN. and made unique contributions to the apparatus, extracting the best from it in a His career peaked in the ALEPH experiment study of fluctuations of neutral and charged strong French team effort. at the Large Electron–Positron collider, particles. From 1989 until 1991 he was a Lefrançois, now emeritus research where he was responsible for constructing visiting scientist at GSI in Germany. director at CNRS, has spent his career at the electromagnetic calorimeter and Viyogi is now leading a team from India, LAL, where he was director from 1994 to directed the collaboration from 1990 to including five universities and two institutions, 1998. He had a leading role in very precise 1993. He continues to help build equipment that will contribute to research of compressed measurements on the ϕ meson at the Orsay by working on the calorimeter electronics for baryonic matter at the future Facility for colliding ring, and then in the construction, the LHCb experiment. Antiproton and Ion Research in Germany. 38 CERN Courier January/February 2007 CCJanFebFaces.indd 38 17/1/07 11:37:44 FACES AND PLACES LHC suppliers come up trumps at awards The fifth Golden Hadron awards recently honoured four suppliers for the LHC project, for their flexibility, responsiveness and commitment during the challenging working conditions. This year’s awards mark the first time that a team from CERN has won the prize. The awards went to Draka Comteq BV and Mauerhofer & Zuber, the Intertec, Cegelec and Spie-Trendel (ICS) consortium, Rial Vacuum and the CERN main workshop. The awards recognized Draka Comteq BV and Mauerhofer & Zuber for the supply and installation of the optical-fibre cabling system for data transmission for the LHC and three of the main experiments (ALICE, CMS, LHCb), as well as for other CERN sites. It is the Members of the CERN team receive their award in the Globe of Science and Innovation. world’s largest optical-fibre project in terms of density and complexity. High-pressure, air- people from various CERN services, 800 000 main workshop, involved with mechanics and blowing devices broke a world record during hours were put into the project. subcontracting, assembly techniques and installation in the LHC tunnel for the longest Rial Vacuum produced special components surface treatment, is made up of 90 people. cable blown into a tube in one go. for the cryostats