European Physical Society awards
The High Energy Physics Board of the European Physical Society awarded the following prizes at the EPS High Energy Physics Conference in Budapest on 16 July:
The Gribov medal goes to Steven Gubser (Caltech) for "his outstanding work that has revealed a deep connection between gauge theories and gravitational interactions in the framework of string theories. This made it possible to compute and understand properties of a gauge theory in 3+1 dimensions from a gravitational theory in 4+1 dimensions."
The Young Physicist prize goes to Arnulf Quadt (Bonn) for "his outstanding contribution to the measurement of the F2 structure function in deep inelastic scattering and extending its measurement to low values of momentum transfer and fractional momentum x".
The Outreach prize goes to Christine Sutton (Oxford) and Erik Johansson (Stockholm) for "their innovative use of electronic and printed media to bring high-energy physics to a wider public, including professional colleagues, students and schools, and in particular their collaboration developing computer interactive packages for educational master classes".
The distinguished HEP-EPS prize 2001 goes to Donald Perkins (Oxford) for "his outstanding contributions to neutrino physics and for implementing the use of neutrinos as a tool to elucidate the quark structure of the nucleon".
Maiani recieves honorary doctorate
As briefly mentioned in the July issue of CERN Courier (p 31), CERN director-general Luciano Maiani has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the Slovak Academy of Sciences in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the theory of elementary particles and for important contributions to the development of international scientific co-operation. Also at the award ceremony in Bratislava on 10 May was the Italian Ambassador in Slovakia, Luca Del Balzo di Presenzano, and representives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Education, the Slovak-CERN Committee and the national scientific community. An audience with Slovakian President Rudolf Schuster completed the director-general's programme in Slovakia.
US President George W Bush has announced his intention to nominate John H Marburger as director of the Office of Science and Technology. Marburger is currently director of the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and president of Brookhaven Science Associates. The position traditionally includes the directorship of the Office of Science and Technology Policy - a post that requires Senate confirmation.
SLAC professor Charles Prescott has been nominated as a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, the nation's most distinguished body of scientists. Prescott is known round the world for his leadership in electron-scattering experiments involving polarized beams of electrons.
The Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Award of the Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers is shared between John T Seeman of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) for his outstanding leadership of the accelerator physics of the design, construction and commissioning of the highly successful PEP II positron-electron asymmetric collider and Lloyd M Young of Los Alamos for his invention, development, and beamline operation of the resonantly coupled (radiofrequency quadrupole) structure and the methods used to tune it and other structures.
At the meeting of CERN's governing body, CERN Council, on 15 June, Hermann Schunck of Germany was elected vice-president of the Council for one year from 1 July.
Peter Kalmus of London's Queen Mary College was recently made a fellow of London's University College by the college provost, former CERN director-general Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith, and has been awarded a national UK OBE for "services to physics".