Tag: Obituary
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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
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Stephen Reucroft (1943 – 2020)
Stephen Reucroft(1943 – 2020) — It is with great sadness that we inform you of the death of our good friend and colleague Stephen (Steve) Reucroft after a long struggle against cancer. Steve grew up in Morley, Yorkshire. He earned his BSc in Physics in 1965 and his PhD in Particle Physics in 1969 from
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Yuri Orlov (1924 – 2020)
Yuri Orlov(1924 – 2020) — Yuri Orlov, a world-renowned accelerator physicist and leading figure in the worldwide campaign for human rights in Soviet Russia, passed away at the end of September at the age of 96 years. Yuri was born in Moscow in 1924. He studied and worked there until 1956, when a critical pro-democracy
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Tony Shave (1951 – 2020)
Tony Shave(1951 – 2020) — It is with great sadness that we inform you of the death of Tony Shave, a former member of the CERN personnel, who had recently retired after devoting 42 years of his life to the Organization in the fields of radiation protection and technical support. Originally from Sussex in the
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Philippe Mermod (1978 – 2020)
Philippe Mermod(1978 – 2020) — It is with great sadness that we inform you that Philippe Mermod, a member of the ATLAS and SHiP collaborations at CERN, passed away on 20 August 2020. Philippe was born in Geneva in 1978 He obtained his Master’s degree in 2002 from the University of Geneva and his PhD
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Horst Wenninger (1938 – 2020)
Former CERN director Horst Wenninger played key roles in the approval of the LHC and in firmly establishing knowledge transfer at CERN
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Claude Détraz (1938 – 2020)
Claude Détraz, a noteworthy figure in nuclear and particle physics in France and Europe, passed away on Saturday, 20 June 2020