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CERN Courier

Jul 19, 2011

Faces and Places (page 2)

INR awards the 2011 Markov prizes

2011 Markov prize laureates

The Institute for Nuclear Research (INR) of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow has awarded the 2011 M A Markov Prize to Alexey Kurepin and Igor Zeleznykh, of the Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Aston Komar of the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. They received the awards at the 9th Markov Readings in Moscow on 13 May.

Kurepin is recognized for his "great contribution to researches in the field of relativistic nuclear physics and discovery of new properties of nuclei and nuclear matterˮ; Zeleznykh for "proposals and developments of new methods for detecting neutrinos and other elementary particles"; and Komar for his "great contribution to theoretical and experimental studies in elementary particle physics".

The M A Markov Prize, which is awarded for essential contributions to theoretical and experimental studies in the field of elementary particle physics, nuclear physics and neutrino astrophysics, was established by INR in memory of Moisey Alexandrovich Markov (1908–1994), who was one of the founders of the institute. The Markov Readings are held each year on 13 May to commemorate his birthday.

Cifarelli and Stachel rise to the top

Cifarelli

The European Physical Society (EPS) has its first woman president, since Luisa Cifarelli of the University of Bologna and INFN took over from Maciej Kolwas, at the close of the EPS Council meeting held on 1–2 April. She was elected president by the EPS Council at the meeting held on 19–20 March 2010 and will serve a two-year term, before becoming a vice-president for a further year.

Cifarelli studied at the universities of Rome and Bologna, where her thesis supervisor was Antonino Zichichi. Her research work has taken her to CERN, DESY and the Gran Sasso National Laboratory. For the past 10 years she has been involved in the design, construction and running of the huge time-of-flight detector of the ALICE experiment at the LHC, which is based on multigap resistive plate chamber technology. She has served on a number of councils, committees and commissions, including CERN Council and the INFN Board of Directors.

Stachel

Johanna Stachel, professor of physics at the University of Heidelberg and a member of the ALICE collaboration at the LHC, has been elected as the next president of the German Physical Society (DPG). She will be the first female president of the society when she takes over from Wolfgang Sander in 2012. Founded in 1845, the DPG is the world’s oldest physical society and also the largest, with 59,000 members.

Stachel received her PhD from the University of Mainz before conducting research with Stony Brook University and the Brookhaven National Laboratory. She has received many research awards, including the Federal Cross of Merit in 1999. Within ALICE, she is project leader of the transition radiation detector (TRD).

Herwig Schopper becomes honorary member of EPS

Schopper

The European Physical Society (EPS) has elected Herwig Schopper to honorary membership. Schopper was director-general of CERN from 1981–1998, a period that saw the approval and construction of the Large Electron-Positron collider in the 27 km tunnel now occupied by the LHC. He is honoured for his scientific contributions to the development of optics, thin metal layers, nuclear physics, elementary particle physics, detector development and accelerator technology (CERN Courier November 2009 p36). The EPS also recognizes Schopper for his successful work as the society’s president, in transferring the headquarters to Mulhouse.

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