Tag: CERN community
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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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CERN announces new open data policy in support of open science
A new open data policy for scientific experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will make scientific research more reproducible, accessible, and collaborative
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ALICE opens avenue for high-precision studies of the strong force
The collaboration shows how proton–proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider can reveal the strong interaction between composite particles called hadrons
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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
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Yuri Orlov (1924 – 2020)
Yuri Orlov(1924 – 2020) — Yuri Orlov, a world-renowned accelerator physicist and leading figure in the worldwide campaign for human rights in Soviet Russia, passed away at the end of September at the age of 96 years. Yuri was born in Moscow in 1924. He studied and worked there until 1956, when a critical pro-democracy