Tag: Obituary
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Alain Brissonnaud (1939 – 2021)
Alain Brissonnaud(1939 – 2021) — It is with great sadness that we inform you of the death of Alain Brissonnaud, a retired member of the CERN personnel who dedicated his career to budgetary and financial management of CERN's major projects, spanning the SPS, LEP, CLIC and the LHC. Alain began his career at CERN in
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Gérard Bachy (1942 – 2022)
Gérard Bachy(1942 – 2022) — Gérard Bachy came to CERN in 1967, straight after graduating from ETH Zurich, and spent his entire 35-year career with the Organization. He started off as a mechanical engineer with the BEBC (Big European Bubble Chamber), where he was in charge of the design and manufacture of the expansion system.
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Yannick Beraud (1976 – 2022)
Yannick Beraud(1976 – 2022) — We deeply regret to announce the death of Yannick Beraud on 21 April 2022. Yannick Beraud, who was born on 30 August 1976, worked in the HSE Unit and had been at CERN since 1 June 2013. The Director-General has sent a message of condolence to his family on behalf
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Gennady Zinovjev (1941 – 2021)
Gennady Zinovjev(1941 – 2021) — Professor Gennady Zinovjev, a prominent theorist in the field of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and the physics of strongly interacting matter, a pioneer in experimental studies of relativistic heavy-ion collisions, and a leader of the Ukraine–CERN collaboration, passed away on 19 October 2021 at the age of 80. In a career
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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