Tag: Obituary
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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
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Cédric Fournier (1981 – 2024)
Cédric Fournier(1981 – 2024) — It was with profound sadness that we learned of the sudden death of our colleague Cédric Fournier. Cédric started working at CERN at a young age, first as an employee of a contractor and later (from 2004 on) as a member of staff. He made significant contributions to the initial
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Philip John Bryant (1942 – 2024)
Philip John Bryant(1942 – 2024) — Newly married and finishing his PhD from University College, London, Phil was recruited by CERN in November 1968 to work in the magnet group of the Intersecting Storage Rings (ISR) division, where his first task was to watch over the manufacture of the skew quadrupoles. The group, later renamed
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CERN pays tribute to Peter Higgs
Peter Higgs passed away on 8 April at the age of 94
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Giuseppe Fidecaro (1926 – 2024)
Giuseppe Fidecaro(1926 – 2024) — We are saddened to learn that experimental physicist Giuseppe Fidecaro, who joined CERN in 1956, passed away on 28 March. He was 97 years old. Giuseppe was a familiar face to the CERN community, often seen arm in arm with his wife Maria as the pair made their way through