Tag: Obituary
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Jean Willy André Cleymans (1944 – 2021)
Jean Willy André Cleymans(1944 – 2021) — Jean Cleymans, a pioneer in the study of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions and a leader of the South Africa–CERN collaboration, passed away on 22 February 2021 in a tragic accident in his hometown, Turnhout, in Belgium. Jean was not only a most distinguished theorist in the field of high-energy
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Roland Windmolders (1940 – 2020)
Roland Windmolders(1940 – 2020) — Roland Windmolders, our dear colleague, died suddenly on 27 November 2020 in Prévessin (FR). Of Belgian nationality, he completed his university education at the University of Louvain (BE), first in civil engineering and then in mathematics and physics. At the age of 27, he defended his PhD in particle physics
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Martinus Justinus Godefriedus Veltman (1931 – 2021)
Martinus Justinus Godefriedus Veltman(1931 – 2021) — Martinus (“Tini”) Veltman started his scientific career relatively late: he obtained his PhD from the University of Utrecht in 1963(1) under the supervision of Leon Van Hove, but had already moved to CERN in 1961, where Van Hove had been named Leader of the CERN Theory Division. At
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Günther Plass (1930 – 2020)
Günther Plass(1930 – 2020) — Günther Plass, a former Director of Accelerators, passed away on 11 December 2020, aged 90. Günther made decisive contributions to the development and successful operation of many of CERN’s large facilities. After graduating from the Technical University Berlin-Charlottenburg, and a short detour via an industrial magnet laboratory in Germany, he
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André Martin (1929 – 2020)
André Martin(1929 – 2020) — André Martin passed away on 11 November 2020. His death is a great loss to the theory community worldwide and to the CERN family. He was one of the pioneers of the Organization, which he joined in 1959. André Martin was born in Paris on 20 September 1929. He studied
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Martinus Veltman (1931 – 2021)
Martinus Veltman(1931 – 2021) — Martinus “Tini” Veltman, who shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics with his former student Gerardus ‘t Hooft, passed away on 4 January at the age of 89. A regular visitor to CERN since the early 1960s, Veltman served on the Scientific Policy Committee from 1976 to 1982, where he
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Jean-Claude Berset (1939 – 2020)
Jean-Claude Berset(1939 – 2020) — It is with deep regret that we announce the passing of Jean-Claude Berset on 1 October at the age of 81. Jean-Claude arrived at CERN in 1970 and was assigned as an electronics technician in Electronics Group of the NP Division, developing “front-end” electronics. He participated in the development and
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Jack Steinberger (1921 – 2020)
Jack Steinberger(1921 – 2020) — Jack Steinberger, a giant of the field who contributed so much to the experimental development of the Standard Model, passed away on 12 December 2020 aged 99. Born in the Bavarian town of Bad Kissingen in 1921, he left Germany at the age of 13 to escape rising antisemitism and
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Jacques Séguinot (1932 – 2020)
Jacques Séguinot, a great detector physicist and a founding father of the Ring Imaging Cherenkov technique, passed away on 12 October 2020
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Stephanie Zimmermann (1973 – 2020)
It is with great sadness that we inform you of Stephanie Zimmermann’s sudden death on 10 November