Tuesday, February 26, 2008

[Interactions News Wire] #15-08 - European Physical Society 2008 Accelerator Prizes

Interactions News Wire #15-08
26 February 2008 http://www.interactions.org
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Source: European Physical Society Accelerator Group
Content: Press Release
Date Issued: 22 February 2008
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European Physical Society 2008 Accelerator Prizes

The EPS-AG Prizes Selection Committee, under the chairmanship of Leonid
Rivkin, PSI and EPFL, met on Wednesday, 20 February and decided the
following prizes, which will be awarded during the EPAC'08 conference
this June:

1. An achievement prize for outstanding work in the accelerator field
with no age limit :
Alex Chao, SLAC
"for many ground-breaking and fundamental contributions to accelerator
physics, and for the direct or indirect contribution to the design and
performance of almost every major accelerator project, built or not
built, over the past 30 years."

2. An achievement prize for a recent, significant contribution the
accelerator field with no age limit:
Norbert Holtkamp, ITER (previously at ORNL/SNS)
"for his role in the construction and successful commissioning of the
Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) on time and to budget, within the
constraints of a multi-laboratory collaboration."

3. A prize for an individual in the early part of his or her career,
having made a recent, significant, original contribution to the
accelerator field:
Viatcheslav Danilov, ORNL/SNS
"for numerous contributions to accelerator physics, in particular for
the proposal, calculation, design, construction, and demonstration of
efficient laser H- stripping."

EPS Web site: http://www.eps.org/

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