Tag: Obituary
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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
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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