Tag: Obituary
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John Pett (1942 – 2024)
John Pett(1942 – 2024) — It is with deep sadness that we share the news of the loss of our friend and colleague, John Pett, former member and leader of the LHC Power Converter group. He was an important member of the group, contributing with his great experience, knowledge and efforts in innovation. John was
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Ian Shipsey (1959 – 2024)
Ian Shipsey(1959 – 2024) — Experimental particle physicist Ian Shipsey, a remarkable leader and individual, passed away suddenly and unexpectedly in Oxford on 7 October. Ian was educated at Queen Mary University of London and the University of Edinburgh, where he earned his PhD in 1986 for his work on the NA31 experiment at CERN.
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Karel Šafařík (1953–2024)
Karel Šafařík(1953 – 2024) — Our dear colleague and friend, Karel Šafařík, sadly passed away on Monday 7 October. Karel graduated in theoretical physics in Bratislava in 1976, and worked at JINR in Dubna for more than 11 years, participating in experiments on the phenomenology of particle production at high energies at Dubna and at
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Robert Aymar (1936 – 2024)
CERN Director-General from 2004 to 2008, he mobilised the teams to finish building the LHC and commission the machine
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Max Klein (1951 – 2024)
Max Klein(1951 – 2024) — Born in Berlin, Max earned his Diploma in Physics in 1973 from Humboldt University of Berlin (HUB, East Germany, GDR), with a thesis on low-energy heavy-ion physics. He received his PhD in 1977 from the Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEP) of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in
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Arnau Brossa Gonzalo (1993 – 2024)
Arnau Brossa Gonzalo(1993 – 2024) — It is with great sadness that we announce the sudden loss of Arnau Brossa Gonzalo, a postdoctoral researcher at the Galician Institute of High Energy Physics (IGFAE), working on the LHCb experiment, who died in Santiago on 21 July 2024 of complications from a climbing accident. Arnau obtained a
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Olav Ullaland (1944 – 2024)
Olav Ullaland(1944 – 2024) — Olav Ullaland obtained his particle physics degree at the University of Bergen, Norway, in 1971. After a short research period at RAL, UK, he came to CERN in 1973 as a fellow and later became a staff member. He worked as a detector physicist until he retired from CERN in
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Susan Lesley Bland (1943 – 2024)
Susan Lesley Bland(1943 – 2024) — Susan Lesley Bland was born in 1943 in Leeds, UK. At the age of 16, she decided to stop her studies to support her younger brother, who was suffering from leukaemia and who died shortly after. She then joined her sister in Switzerland and entered CERN in 1962 at
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Hans Joachim Specht (1936 – 2024)
Hans Joachim Specht(1936 – 2024) — Hans Joachim Specht, one of the founders of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion physics and a pioneering figure in hadron cancer therapy, passed away on 20 May 2024, at the age of 87. A graduate of the University of Munich and ETH Zurich, and full Professor at the University of Heidelberg for
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Mats Lindroos (1961 – 2024)
Mats Lindroos(1961 – 2024) — Mats Lindroos, who made major contributions to accelerator technology, passed away on 2 May 2024 aged just 62. Mats received his PhD in subatomic physics from Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1993 under the supervision of Björn Jonson. As a PhD student he studied decay properties and