CERN Courier July/August 2013 CERN Courier July/August 2013 Faces & Places Faces & Places A WARDS A PPOINTMENTS Prize time at EPS-HEP 2013 Nigel Lockyer becomes director of Fermilab The ATLAS and CMS collaborations are among the winners of the 2013 European Physical Society High Energy Physics prizes. Physicist Nigel Lockyer, head of TRIUMF, Nigel Lockyer will be Fermilab’s next The High-Energy and Particle-Physics Canada’s national laboratory for particle director. (Image credit: TRIUMF.) Prize, for an outstanding contribution to and nuclear physics, will in September high-energy physics, is awarded to the become the sixth director of Fermi National two collaborations, “for the discovery Accelerator Laboratory. of a Higgs boson, as predicted by the Lockyer will be a familiar face to many. Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism”, and to He spent 22 years as a researcher on the CDF future of the fi eld looks to be very exciting; it Michel Della Negra, Peter Jenni and Tejinder experiment at Fermilab, starting in 1984. He is a great time to be a particle physicist.” Virdee, “for their pioneering and outstanding was co-spokesperson of the 600-member Lockyer is an accomplished physicist and leadership roles in the making of the ATLAS experiment from 2002 to 2004. leader. In 2006 he won the Panofsky Prize for and CMS experiments”. The Board of Directors of the Fermi measuring the lifetime of the bottom quark. The Young Experimental Physicist Research Alliance, which operates Fermilab During his time as director of TRIUMF, Prize for outstanding work by one or more for the US Department of Energy, offered starting in 2007, the laboratory opened new young physicists in the fi eld of particle Lockyer the top job at the conclusion of a facilities, developed new technology for physics and/or particle astrophysics also Left to right: EPS-HEP prize-winners Tejinder “Jim” Virdee and Michel Della Negra of nine-month, international search. He will creating medical isotopes, pushed for the recognizes research at the LHC. It goes to CMS and Peter Jenni of ATLAS. succeed Pier Oddone, who retired in July commercialization of innovations from the Diego Martinez Santos in the Nikhef LHCb after eight years as head of the laboratory. physical sciences and established Canada’s group “for his outstanding contributions to In the fi eld of neutrino physics, the Super-Kamiokande and SNO experiments”. “The opportunity to lead one of the world’s fi rst accelerator-science co-operative the trigger and commissioning of the LHCb Giuseppe and Vanna Cocconi Prize for Finally, Don Lincoln of Fermilab (and most prestigious particle physics laboratories agreements with Japan, India, China and experiment, and the analyses leading to fi rst an outstanding contribution to particle the University of Notre Dame) is the fi rst 0 + – was too good to pass up,” says Lockyer. “The Korea. evidence for the rare decay Bs →μ μ ”. astrophysics and cosmology in the non-European to receive the Outreach Zohar Komargodski of the Weizmann past 15 years goes this year to Arthur Prize, for outstanding outreach achievement Institute receives the 2013 Gribov Medal McDonald, director of the Sudbury Neutrino connected with high-energy physics and/or Brookhaven Rome honours for outstanding work by a young physicist in Observatory (SNO) collaboration and particle astrophysics, “for communicating theoretical particle physics and/or fi eld theory Yoichiro Suzuki, director of the Kamioka in multiple media the excitement of “for his deep insights into the structure of the Observatory, “for their outstanding high-energy physics to high-school students appoints new memory of renormalization group in four-dimensional contributions to the solution of the solar and teachers and the public at large”. fi eld theories and, in particular, his proof (with neutrino puzzle by measuring the fl ux of ● The awards are to be presented at the physics chair Pontecorvo Adam Schwimmer) of the a-theorem”. all neutrino fl avours from the Sun with the EPS-HEP 2013 in Stockholm on 18–24 July. Laurence Littenberg takes the reins as chair The year 2013 is the centenary of the birth In a ceremony on 29 May, Roy Steve Myers, director of accelerators of the physics department at Brookhaven of Bruno Pontecorvo, one of the great Kerr of Canterbury University and technology at CERN, is to National Laboratory (BNL) as of 1 July. He physicists of the 21st century and a pioneer in Christchurch, New become an offi cer of the Order of the succeeds Thomas Ludlam, who has served as of high-energy physics. To honour his Zealand, received the Albert British Empire (OBE) for services to chair since September 2007. memory as a person and a scientist, the Einstein Medal 2013, awarded science and technology, as Littenberg joined BNL in 1974 and has Physics Department of Sapienza University, by the Albert Einstein Society, announced in the Queen’s Birthday been recognized for his role in ground- in Rome, will hold an international meeting, in Bern. The medal, which is to Honours list for 2013. Myers has had breaking research in particle physics. As “The Legacy of Bruno Pontecorvo: the Man honour extraordinary a leading role in the development of part of an international team of 50 physicists, and the Scientist”, on 11–12 September. achievements related to CERN’s particle colliders over the Littenberg discovered and measured the rare Bruno Pontecorvo’s life was characterized Einstein’s legacy, is awarded past 40 years, including the kaon decay K+→π+vv at the E787 experiment by his ground-breaking scientifi c ideas to Kerr for his “1963 Intersecting Storage Rings, the at the laboratory’s Alternating Gradient and by his ideological choices, sometimes discovery of a solution to Large Electron–Positron collider Synchrotron (CERN Courier December dramatic, which marked his destiny as a Einstein's gravitational fi eld and the LHC. In his current role at 2008 p6). person and as a scientist. The meeting will equations”. The Kerr metric CERN, he is responsible for the In his new role, Littenberg will oversee be a fi tting tribute to the memory of the describes space–time around Roy Kerr with the 2013 Albert exploitation of the LHC. Steve Myers, OBE. BNL’s physics portfolio. This includes the Laurence Littenberg is the new chair at youngest ragazzo di Via Panisperna and a spherical mass with angular Einstein Medal. (Image credit: Additional honours this year Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, which is the Brookhaven’s physics department. (Image provide an opportunity to encounter and momentum, such as a rotating Edith Ruchti, Bruegg.) include an OBE for James Hough, chief executive of Scottish only particle collider currently operating credit: BNL.) celebrate his scientifi c vision and his civil black hole. Universities Physics Alliance and research professor in natural in the US, as well as the laboratory’s role commitment. The scientifi c programme The Albert Einstein Society was founded in Bern in 1977 and the philosophy at the University of Glasgow, for services to science. at the LHc – particularly in the ATLAS Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, as well will revisit the steps that led him to his fi rst medal was awarded to Stephen Hawking in 1979, the Hough is well known for his research on gravitational waves and is collaboration. He also takes charge of BNL’s as the long-standing programme in neutrino important scientifi c results and review his centenary of Einstein’s birth. The society also maintains Einstein’s the UK’s principal investigator on the GEO 600 Gravitational collaboration in the Baryon Oscillation research, which includes the US proposal for legacy for today’s neutrino experiments. former fl at at 49 Kramgasse in Bern as a commemoration site open Wave Detector being built by a University of Hanover/MPQ/ Spectroscopic Survey and the development a future Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment ● For further information, see www.roma1. to the public. University of Glasgow consortium. of a multi-gigapixel camera sensor for the (CERN Courier April 2012 p12). infn.it/pontecorvo/. 38 39 CERNCOURIER www. V OLUME 5 3 N UMBER 6 J ULY /A UGUST 2 0 1 3 CERN Courier July/August 2013 CERN Courier July/August 2013 Faces & Places Faces & Places A WARDS A PPOINTMENTS Prize time at EPS-HEP 2013 Nigel Lockyer becomes director of Fermilab The ATLAS and CMS collaborations are among the winners of the 2013 European Physical Society High Energy Physics prizes. Physicist Nigel Lockyer, head of TRIUMF, Nigel Lockyer will be Fermilab’s next The High-Energy and Particle-Physics Canada’s national laboratory for particle director. (Image credit: TRIUMF.) Prize, for an outstanding contribution to and nuclear physics, will in September high-energy physics, is awarded to the become the sixth director of Fermi National two collaborations, “for the discovery Accelerator Laboratory. of a Higgs boson, as predicted by the Lockyer will be a familiar face to many. Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism”, and to He spent 22 years as a researcher on the CDF future of the fi eld looks to be very exciting; it Michel Della Negra, Peter Jenni and Tejinder experiment at Fermilab, starting in 1984. He is a great time to be a particle physicist.” Virdee, “for their pioneering and outstanding was co-spokesperson of the 600-member Lockyer is an accomplished physicist and leadership roles in the making of the ATLAS experiment from 2002 to 2004. leader. In 2006 he won the Panofsky Prize for and CMS experiments”. The Board of Directors of the Fermi measuring the lifetime of the bottom quark. The Young Experimental Physicist Research Alliance, which operates Fermilab During his time as director of TRIUMF, Prize for outstanding work by one or more for the US Department of Energy, offered starting in 2007, the laboratory opened new young physicists in the fi eld of particle Lockyer the top job at the conclusion of a facilities, developed new technology for physics and/or particle astrophysics also Left to right: EPS-HEP prize-winners Tejinder “Jim” Virdee and Michel Della Negra of nine-month, international search.