PEOPLE AWARDS APS announces winners for 2004 CERN's Gabriele Veneziano, who has won Katsunobu O/'cfe (left) ofKEK and John Seeman ofSLAC have been awarded the 2004 the APS's 2004 Dannie Heineman Prize. Wilson Prize for their work on high-luminosity B-factories. (Diana Rogers/SLAC.) The American Physical Society has understanding of the correspondence a wide variety of probes, tools and methods announced many of its awards for 2004, with between string theory in d space-time at many laboratories". recipients who work in particle physics and dimensions and Yang-Mills theory in d-1 The J J Sakurai Prize for outstanding related fields, from neutrino astrophysics to dimensions, and for communicating achievement in particle theory is shared this colliding-beam techniques. fundamental principles of theoretical physics year by Ikaros Bigi of the University of Notre Wick Haxton of the University of Washington to the general public, including Spanish- Dame and Anthony Ichiro Sanda of Nagoya has won the Hans A Bethe Prize, which speaking audiences". University, "for pioneering theoretical insights recognizes outstanding work in the areas of CERN's Gabriele Veneziano is the recipient that pointed the way to the very fruitful astrophysics, nuclear physics, nuclear of the Dannie Heineman Prize for experimental study of CP violation in B astrophysics or closely related fields. The mathematical physics, which he receives "for decays, and for continuing contributions to CP society said the prize was "for his noteworthy his pioneering discoveries in dual-resonance and heavy flavour physics". contributions and scientific leadership in the models which, partly through his own efforts, The Robert R Wilson Prize for achievement field of neutrino astrophysics, in particular for have developed into string theory and a basis in the physics of particle accelerators is also his success in merging nuclear theory with for the quantum theory of gravity". shared between researchers at institutes in experiments and observations in nuclear Cosmology is the focus of the 2004 Maria Japan and the US. Katsunobu Oide of KEK physics and astrophysics". Goeppert-Mayer Award for outstanding and John Seeman of SLAC are rewarded for Nuclear physics is also recognized by the achievement by a woman physicist in the "technical leadership and direct contributions Tom W Bonner prize for outstanding early years of her career. This has been to the development of high-luminosity experimental research in the subject. The awarded to Suzanne Therese Staggs of B-factories at KEK and SLAC. These machines winner is George F Bertsch of the University of Princeton University, "for her original and have set new world records for luminosities in Washington, "for his many varied lasting contributions to experimental colliding-beam storage rings". contributions to nuclear-structure and cosmology, in particular in the area of cosmic Particle physics also features this year in reaction theory, which have guided and microwave background studies, and for the Leroy Apker Award for undergraduate illuminated experiments for four decades". leadership in multi-institutional collaborations achievement from a PhD-granting institution. The Edward A Bouchet Award recognizes a to measure CMB anisotropy". Peter Onyisi of the University of Chicago is the distinguished minority physicist who has Arie Bodekofthe University of Rochester winner for the paper "Looking for new invisible made significant contributions to physics receives the W KH Panofsky Prize in particles", about the search for new physics research. It has been awarded this year to experimental particle physics, "for his broad, that might be indicated by exclusive photons Juan Maldacena of the Institute for Advanced sustained, and insightful contributions to with missing energy in the opposite direction Study, Princeton, "for providing a deeper elucidating the structure of the nucleon, using in the CDF detector at Fermilab. NETWORKING CERN Horst Wenninger CERN and Caltech win retires from CERN Horst Wenninger, who has been and network-speed prize continues to be a major influence on the development of CERN, retired in September after 35 years. CERN demonstrated the newest Grid After participating in bubble-chamber technology and highlighted advances in experiments at CERN while working as an networking through optical fibres at the assistant at the University of Heidelberg in the International Telecommunication Union's 1960s, Wenninger joined the BEBC project in exhibition Telecom World 2003, held in 1968. He worked as a member of the BEBC Geneva on 12-18 October. constructiortand operations team for almost Using the latest high-speed, high-quality 20 years, becoming the group leader during Virtual Rooms Videoconferencing System the time of its full exploitation, and seeing the (VRVS) technology developed by Caltech, the termination of the project in 1984. Internet2 conference in Indianapolis was In 1989, Wenninger became leader of the transmitted live to the stand. new Accelerator Technologies (AT) Division, Among the many activities, visitors watched which regrouped major technology groups the awards ceremony in Indianapolis for the working on the LEP II energy upgrade new Internet2 land-speed record, which was programme. At the same time he continued achieved by an international team in the Wolfgang von Ructen (centre), CERN's IT R&D on superconducting magnets, prepared framework of the European Union DataTAG Division leader, congratulates Harvey specific technologies for the LHC, such as project. On 1 October, 1 Tbyte of data was Newman of Caltech (left) and Olivier Martin cryogenics and vacuum, and was appointed transmitted across more than 7000 km of CERN (right) on the award for a research-technical director when the LHC between Starlight in Chicago and CERN in new Internet2 land-speed record. project was fully approved in 1996. less than 30 minutes. This is equivalent to He took an active part in the launch of transferring a full CD in 1 s or a full-length exhibition centre and Los Angeles. This time, Technology Transfer (TT), in particular with DVD movie in 7 s. the data were transmitted a greater distance, groups at CERN working on superconducting Just before the award ceremony, CERN and measured as the product of the achieved cavities and the TESLA collaboration. Caltech broke the record again with a multi- bandwidth (bits/second) and the terrestrial gigabit per second transfer between the distance between the nodes. AWARDS Neutrino research and national security share White House's Enrico Fermi Award John Bahcall, Raymond Davis Jr and Seymour Assembly on the peaceful uses of the atom. Sack are the winners of this year's Enrico Bahcall, from the Institute for Advanced Fermi Award. The award is administered by Study, Princeton, and Davis, of the University the US Department of Energy for the White of Pennsylvania, received the award "for their House, and recognizes scientists of innovative research in astrophysics leading to international stature for their lifetimes of a revolution in understanding the properties of exceptional achievement in the development, the elusive neutrino, the lightest known use or production of energy. particle with mass". The trio received the award on 22 October Sack, who retired from the Lawrence at a conference in Washington, DC. The Livermore National Laboratory in 1990 and conference, Nuclear Energy and Science for continues as a research associate, received the 21st Century: Atoms for Peace Plus Fifty, the award "for his contributions to the marked the 50th anniversary of the speech by national security of the US in his work President Eisenhower to the UN General assuringthe reliability of nuclear weapons." Wenninger, a key player in CERN's history. ARMENIA Yerevan hosts school for experimenters On 6 October, the Polish minister of science and chairman of the State Committee for Scientific Research, Michal Kleiber, visited CERN. He is seen here (left) in the CMS assembly hall with CMS spokesperson Michel Delia Negra. He also toured the ATLAS assembly hall and underground cavern and the LHC superconducting magnet string test hall. Seventy-five students attended the 2003 European School on High Energy Physics. The Croatian minister of science and The 2003 European School on High Energy In the discussion sessions, the 75 students technology, Gvozden Flego, visited CERN Physics was held in Tsakhkadzor near Yerevan, from around 30 European countries received on 23 September. He toured the NA49 and Armenia, on 25 August - 6 September. The help from the discussion leaders: Laura Covi, CAST experiments, the LHC magnet test school was organized this year by JINR and DESY; Dmitri Fursaev, JINR; Alexei Pivovarov, hall, the CMS assembly hall and the ALICE CERN, together with the International Center JINR; TilmanPlehn, CERN; Michael cavern, where he is seen here (right) with for Advanced Studies at Yerevan State Plumacher, CERN; and OlegTeryaev, JINR. Jiirgen Schukraft, ALICE spokesperson. University. This is the first time that one of the One of the interesting events of the school JINR member states has organized one of was the opening of the exhibition Science these schools, which occupy a special place Bringing Nations Together in the main hall of in the development of relations between Yerevan University. This exhibition is CERN and JINR. dedicated to international co-operation The schools aim to teach various aspects of between scientists and their role in uniting high-energy physics, but especially