Tag: Obituary
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Jacome Costales Ballesteros (1999 – 2023)
Jacome Costales Ballesteros(1999 – 2023) — We are deeply saddened to announce the death of Mr Jacome Costales Ballesteros on 10 August 2023. Jacome Costales Ballesteros, who was born on 29 April 1999, worked in the FAP department and had been at CERN since 1 October 2021. Yaco, as his colleagues called him, was a
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Roberto Lopez (1979 – 2023)
Roberto Lopez(1979 – 2023) — We are deeply saddened to announce that Mr Roberto Lopez died on 7 August 2023. Roberto Lopez, born 7 July 1979, worked in the TE department and had been at CERN since 1 January 2005. The Director-General has sent a message of condolence to his family on behalf of the
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Kitty Wakley (1928 – 2023)
Kitty Wakley(1928 – 2023) — A pillar of CERN is no more. Kitty Wakley, originally from Liverpool, started working at CERN in around 1960 and was the beloved leader of the document typing service (“typing pool”) until it was dissolved over 30 years later. Back in the days before physicists and engineers became familiar with
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Roger Bailey (1954 – 2023)
Roger Bailey(1954 – 2023) — It was with deep sadness that we learned that Roger Bailey passed away on 1 June while out mountain biking in Valais. He was 69. Roger began his career with a doctorate in experimental particle physics from the University of Sheffield in 1979, going on to a postdoctoral position at
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Louis Guerrero (1943 – 2023)
Louis Guerrero(1943 – 2023) — Louis, known as “Loulou”, arrived at CERN in 1970. He began his engineering career at the PS Booster under the leadership of Helmut Reich and Gianni Gelato, then later moved to the SPS to join Raymond Rausch’s team, where he worked on the communication system for the SPS computers (TITN).
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Klaus Bätzner (1936 – 2022)
Klaus Bätzner(1936 – 2022) — It was with great sadness that we recently learned that our friend and former colleague Klaus Bätzner passed away in December 2022. Klaus devoted his career to CERN. Among the many projects he worked on were the Proton Synchrotron (PS) and increasing the energy of the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS)
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Yolande Agnosini (1933 – 2023)
Yolande Agnosini(1933 – 2023) — Yolande Beatrix Agnosini, née Soriano, passed away on Saturday, 8 April at the age of 89. She is now reunited with her husband, Fausto Agnosini, who also worked at CERN. Yolande spent her entire career at CERN. Following a stint at the computer card punching service, she followed a course
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Giorgio Brianti (1930 – 2023)
Giorgio Brianti(1930 – 2023) — Giorgio Brianti, a pillar of CERN throughout his 40-year career, passed away on 6 April at the age of 92. He played a major role in the success of CERN and in particular the Large Electron–Positron Collider (LEP) project, and his legacy lives on across the whole of the accelerator
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Vittorio Giorgio Vaccaro (1941 – 2023)
Vittorio Giorgio Vaccaro(1941 – 2023) — Accelerator physicist Vittorio Giorgio Vaccaro passed away on 11 February 2023 in his hometown of Naples, Italy, after a short illness. Vittorio graduated in 1965 from the University of Naples Federico II. He soon moved to CERN as a fellow, where he remained from 1966 to 1969, contributing to
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Karel Cornelis (1955 – 2022)
Karel Cornelis(1955 – 2022) — Our dear colleague and friend Karel Cornelis passed away unexpectedly on 20 December 2022. After finishing his studies in physics at the University of Leuven (Belgium), Karel joined CERN in 1983 as Engineer in Charge of the SPS at the time when the machine was being operated as a proton–antiproton