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Introduction

The year 2002 saw the passing away of two great former CERN director-generals, Willibald Jentschke on 11 March and Viki Weisskopf on 21 April.

DESY’s founding father

Erich Lohrmann on the decisive impact of Willibald Jentschke on DESY's history

A life in science

A few months after celebrating his 90th birthday, Willibald Jentschke passed away on 11 March 2002.

Neutral currents and other horror stories

I have been asked to speak here not so much because of my personal recollections of Willibald Jentschke, but to speak on physics at CERN during his regime.

Leon Lederman, former director of Fermilab, once described the development of particle physics as frequently a story of false trails, crossed wires, sloppy techniques, misconceptions and misunderstand...

The ISR in the time of Jentschke

The beginning of Willibald Jentschke's mandate at CERN coincided with the start-up of the world's first hadron collider, the Intersecting Storage Rings (ISR).

A heartfelt tribute

A tribute to Willibald Jentschke who passed away in March 2022.

Jentschke at CERN: 1971-1975

Willi Jentschke arrived at CERN to take over from Bernard Gregory as director-general at the start of 1971, a year of major developments for the laboratory and the beginning of a period of remarkable ...