Igor Anatolievich Golutvin, an outstanding scientist who founded new directions and research techniques in particle physics, died on 13 September 2023.
Born on 8 August 1934 in Moscow, Golutvin graduated from MIPT in 1957 and started his work at JINR in 1958. Several generations of detectors for large-scale physics facilities were developed under his supervision at the JINR Synchrophasotron, the IHEP accelerator in Serpukhov, and at the Proton Synchrotron and the LHC at CERN.
Golutvin became one of the pioneers of the CMS experiment, driving the cooperation of Russia and other JINR member states via the Russia and Dubna Member States (RDMS) CMS collaboration. Over the past 30 years, under his supervision, RDMS physicists have completed the development of unique detectors for CMS. Igor was also instrumental in initiating Grid computing for CMS in Russia. He was awarded the 2014 Cherenkov Prize of the Russian Academy of Sciences for his outstanding contribution to the development of CMS. In recent years, he played an important role in the preparation of upgrades for CMS, in particular concerning the calorimeters.
During his work at JINR, Golutvin established a scientific school and trained a team of active, qualified physicists and engineers. Within the framework of cooperation between CMS Russia and other JINR member states, he brought together like-minded people with the aim of preserving Russian scientific schools, built unique teams of engineers and physicists, and developed favourable conditions for attracting gifted young physicists, which he saw as extremely important for the implementation of long-term scientific projects.
Igor was a member of the equipment committee of the International Committee for Future Accelerators, an editorial board member of the journal Nuclear Instruments and Methods, a directorate member of the CMS collaboration at CERN, head of the collaboration of the institutes of Russia and JINR in CMS, and the organiser and head of numerous international and Russian scientific conferences and symposia.
He was also a professor/full member of the Russian Academy of Engineering Sciences, Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, International Academy of Sciences, Honoured Scientist of the Russian Federation and chief researcher for CMS at VBLHEP. For many years of fruitful work, Golutvin was awarded numerous state and scientific awards and prizes.
