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It was with great sadness that we learned last week that Erwin Gabathuler passed away on 29 August
Our dear colleague Roberto Petronzio passed away on 28 July at the age of 67
It is with great sadness that we announce the sudden loss of Pablo Rodríguez Pérez, a physicist on the LHCb Experiment, who died on 1st July 2016
Guido Vegni, a renowned particle physicist and Professor at the University of Milan, passed away on Thursday 2 June
Tom Kibble, an internationally-renowned theoretical physicist, passed away on Thursday 2 June
It was with great sadness that we learnt that Irene Vichou, our much appreciated ATLAS colleague, had passed away in April after an illness.
Catherine Magnier, du département EN, nous a quitté le 31 mai dernier
With deep regret CERN announces the death of Andrey Loginov.
With deep regret CERN announces the death of Sylvestre Catin on 2 April 2016
We deeply regret to announce the death of Hervé Genoud on 22 September 2014
