Tag: Obituary
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Helmut Weber (1947 – 2021)
Helmut Weber(1947 – 2021) — Helmut Weber, CERN Director of Administration from 1992 to 1994, passed away on 16 July. Born in 1947, he obtained his PhD from the University of Vienna, after which he pursued a high-flying career in the aerospace industry, where he acquired considerable managerial experience. Prior to joining CERN, Helmut had
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Egil Lillestøl (1938 – 2021)
Egil Lillestøl(1938 – 2021) — Norwegian experimental particle physicist Egil Sigurd Lillestøl passed away in Valence, France, on 27 September. He will be remembered as a passionate colleague with exceptional communication and teaching skills, and a friend with many personal interests. He was able to explain the most complex systems and mechanisms in physics so
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Steven Weinberg (1933 – 2021)
Steven Weinberg(1933 – 2021) — Steven Weinberg, one of the greatest theoretical physicists of all time, passed away on 23 July, aged 88. He revolutionised particle physics, quantum field theory and cosmology with conceptual breakthroughs which still form the foundation of our understanding of physical reality. Weinberg is well known for the unified theory of
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Paul Bossard (1936 – 2020)
Paul Bossard(1936 – 2020) — It is with great sadness that we inform you of the death of Paul Bossard, a retired member of the CERN personnel who worked for several decades on the construction of magnets in the CERN accelerator chain together with their electrical systems. Paul originally came from the Swiss Canton of
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Alexander Dmitrievich Kovalenko (1945 – 2021)
Alexander Dmitrievich Kovalenko(1945 – 2021) — It is with great sadness that we have learned that Russian physicist Alexander Dmitrievich Kovalenko has passed away at the age of 76. Alexander had been assistant director of the LHE (Laboratory of High-Energy Physics) for the accelerator complex and ongoing experiments at JINR (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)
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Luc Pape (1939 – 2021)
Luc Pape(1939 – 2021) — It is with great sadness that we announce that our colleague and friend Luc Pape passed away on 9 April 2021 after a brief illness. Luc's long, rich career covered all aspects of our field, from the early days of bubble chamber (BC) physics in the 1960s and 1970s to
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Pierluigi Riboni (1935 – 2020)
Pierluigi Riboni(1935 – 2020) — Pierluigi Riboni passed away in Geneva on 9 November, aged 85, as a consequence of COVID-19. Born in Pavia, Italy, he graduated from Milan Polytechnic in 1961 as a mechanical engineer. After working a few years for Montecatini in Porto Marghera near Venice, he joined CERN as the head of
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Herbert Lengeler (1931 – 2021)
Herbert Lengeler(1931 – 2021) — It is with great sadness that we inform you of the death of Herbert Lengeler, an experimental physicist who made great contributions to the development of superconducting radiofrequency (SC RF) cavities. Herbert passed away peacefully on 26 January 2021, in his home, only three weeks short of his 90th birthday.
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Arnulfo Zepeda Domínguez (1943 – 2020)
Arnulfo Zepeda Domínguez(1943 – 2020) — Born in 1943 in San Luis de Potosí, Mexico, Arnulfo Zepeda graduated in nuclear engineering from the University of Prague in 1967. He then joined Cinvestav (the Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional), where he obtained a PhD in physics in 1970, and
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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