CERN safety expert receives award for standardization
Helmut Schönbacher, previously of CERN's Safety Commission, has received the 1906 Award of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) for his standardization work on the influence of ionizing radiation on insulating materials.
From 1986 until 2004, Schönbacher led a working group on radiation composed of internationally recognized experts, which edited standards in the IEC 60544 series on the determination of the effects of ionizing radiation on electrically insulating materials.
The group also edited three IEC technical reports on the determination of long-term radiation ageing in polymers. This standardization work and long-term experience from CERN on the ageing of materials by radiation also contributed to research coordination programmes of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Schönbacher, who retired from CERN on 31 January, was a member of the Radiation Protection Group from 1968 to 1988. In 1988 he became group leader and was leader of the Technical Inspection and Safety Division from 1997 to 2002.
Igor Dremin wins the I E Tamm prize
Igor M Dremin from the Lebedev Institute of Physics has won the 2004 I E Tamm prize from the Russian Academy of Sciences for a broad range of important original contributions to "multifractality and correlations in multiparticle production in QCD".
Dremin has been well known in the particle-physics community since the end of the 1950s, when together with D S Chernavsky he proposed the one-pion exchange model of peripheral hadron interactions, which led to the multiperipheral and multi-reggeon models. His theoretical work on the fractal properties of particle distributions in phase space and the solution of quantum chromodynamic equations for quark and gluon jets predicted new effects and initiated a worldwide series of theoretical and experimental studies.
Dremin has also had original ideas on topics such as "Cherenkov gluons" (ring-like events) and charm in cosmic rays (long-flying cascades) and recent work on wavelet analysis of some physics processes. His originality has also extended to applied problems in reactor physics, aviation and medicine, demonstrating his varied interests.
The Tamm prize is awarded every three years, and Dremin's was announced on 25 January at a session of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
European Physical Society requests nominations for particle-physics prizes
The High Energy Particle Physics (HEPP) Board of the European Physical Society (EPS) is calling for nominations for the EPS prizes in particle physics for 2005. The prizes, which will be awarded in a ceremony on 25 July during the International Europhysics Conference on HEPP in Lisbon, are as follows:
• The High Energy and Particle Physics Prize, for an outstanding contribution to high-energy physics in the experimental, theoretical or technological area, will be awarded to one or more persons or to collaboration(s). In accordance with EPS-HEPP regulations, nominations for this prize are accepted only from a broad list of invited world experts.
• The Young Physicist Prize, for outstanding work by one or more young physicists (age less than 35) in the field of particle physics and/or particle astrophysics. Nominations are open and should be addressed to the HEPP-EPS chair Jose Bernabeu (e-mail jose.bernabeu@uv.es).
• The Gribov Medal, for outstanding work by a young physicist (age less than 35) in theoretical particle physics and/or field theory. Nominations are open and should also be addressed to the HEPP-EPS chair by the same date.
• The Outreach Prize, for outstanding outreach achievement connected with high-energy physics and/or particle astrophysics. Nominations are open and should be addressed to Jorma Tuominiemi (e-mail jorma.tuominiemi@cern.ch) before the deadline of 15 April.
Detailed regulations and the list of previous prizes may be found on the Web page of the HEPP Division of EPS at http://eps-hepp.web.cern.ch/eps-hepp/.