Tag: CERN community
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Gerd-Jürgen Beyer (1940 – 2021)
Gerd-Jürgen Beyer(1940 – 2021) — Gerd Beyer, who passed away on 20 January at the age of 81, left his mark by developing the biomedical field of research, both at ISOLDE (CERN) forty years ago and at many other laboratories. He will be remembered as a tireless worker in the field of nuclear and applied
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CERN launches Technology Impact Fund to address global challenges
First selected project could save lives by providing earlier earthquake alerts
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TOTEM and DØ collaborations announce odderon discovery
The TOTEM collaboration at the LHC and the DØ collaboration at the Tevatron collider at Fermilab have discovered an elusive state of three gluons
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Jean Willy André Cleymans (1944 – 2021)
Jean Willy André Cleymans(1944 – 2021) — Jean Cleymans, a pioneer in the study of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions and a leader of the South Africa–CERN collaboration, passed away on 22 February 2021 in a tragic accident in his hometown, Turnhout, in Belgium. Jean was not only a most distinguished theorist in the field of high-energy
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Black Quantum Futurism wins this year’s Collide residency award
Arts at CERN selected the Black Quantum Futurism collective to complete an artistic residency between CERN in Geneva and Barcelona
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Roland Windmolders (1940 – 2020)
Roland Windmolders(1940 – 2020) — Roland Windmolders, our dear colleague, died suddenly on 27 November 2020 in Prévessin (FR). Of Belgian nationality, he completed his university education at the University of Louvain (BE), first in civil engineering and then in mathematics and physics. At the age of 27, he defended his PhD in particle physics
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CLOUD at CERN reveals the role of iodine acids in atmospheric aerosol formation
The results suggest a new mechanism that could accelerate the loss of Arctic sea ice