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.”
Contact information:
Christine Petit-Jean-Genaz
EPAC Conferences Coordinator
CERN
CH - 1211 Geneva 23
Tel. +41 22 767 32 75
Mobile +41 76 487 4560
E-mail Christine.Petit-Jean-Genaz@cern.ch