Category: At CERN
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Günther Plass (1930 – 2020)
Günther Plass(1930 – 2020) — Günther Plass, a former Director of Accelerators, passed away on 11 December 2020, aged 90. Günther made decisive contributions to the development and successful operation of many of CERN’s large facilities. After graduating from the Technical University Berlin-Charlottenburg, and a short detour via an industrial magnet laboratory in Germany, he
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André Martin (1929 – 2020)
André Martin(1929 – 2020) — André Martin passed away on 11 November 2020. His death is a great loss to the theory community worldwide and to the CERN family. He was one of the pioneers of the Organization, which he joined in 1959. André Martin was born in Paris on 20 September 1929. He studied
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Martinus Veltman (1931 – 2021)
Martinus Veltman(1931 – 2021) — Martinus “Tini” Veltman, who shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics with his former student Gerardus ‘t Hooft, passed away on 4 January at the age of 89. A regular visitor to CERN since the early 1960s, Veltman served on the Scientific Policy Committee from 1976 to 1982, where he
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Jean-Claude Berset (1939 – 2020)
Jean-Claude Berset(1939 – 2020) — BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://home.cern/news/obituary/cern/jean-claude-berset-1939-2020) It is with deep regret that we announce the passing of Jean-Claude Berset on 1 October at the age of 81. Jean-Claude arrived at CERN in 1970 and was assigned as an electronics technician in Electronics Group of the NP Division, developing
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Jack Steinberger (1921 – 2020)
Jack Steinberger(1921 – 2020) — Jack Steinberger, a giant of the field who contributed so much to the experimental development of the Standard Model, passed away on 12 December 2020 aged 99. Born in the Bavarian town of Bad Kissingen in 1921, he left Germany at the age of 13 to escape rising antisemitism and
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Jacques Séguinot (1932 – 2020)
Jacques Séguinot, a great detector physicist and a founding father of the Ring Imaging Cherenkov technique, passed away on 12 October 2020
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Stephanie Zimmermann (1973 – 2020)
It is with great sadness that we inform you of Stephanie Zimmermann’s sudden death on 10 November
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Stephen Reucroft (1943 – 2020)
Stephen Reucroft(1943 – 2020) — It is with great sadness that we inform you of the death of our good friend and colleague Stephen (Steve) Reucroft after a long struggle against cancer. Steve grew up in Morley, Yorkshire. He earned his BSc in Physics in 1965 and his PhD in Particle Physics in 1969 from