George Kalmus

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George Ernest Kalmus (born April 21, 1935 in Prague ) is a British experimental particle physicist .

Life

Kalmus came to England with his parents (his father Hans Kalmus was later professor of biology at University College London (UCL)) in 1939. He grew up in Harpenden and studied at UCL, where he was visiting professor from 1984 to 2000 and a fellow from 1998. From 1959 to 1962 he conducted research at UCL in the bubble chamber group . From 1962 he was at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley (interrupted 1963/64 as a lecturer at UCL), where he was a senior physicist from 1967 to 1971. He then served on the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , where he group leader for the bubble chamber and the stake in Delphi collaboration (at LEP of CERN was). From 1986 to 1994 he was deputy director and 1994 to 1997 director of the particle physics division of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. From 1998 to 2000 he was Senior Physicist and from 2000 Honorary Physicist. From 1984 he was a visiting scientist at UCL.

His brother Peter Kalmus is also a well-known particle physicist. He was a professor at Queen Mary College, University of London and received the Rutherford Medal in 1988 .

Memberships, awards

He was on the Scientific Policy Committee of CERN and in the planning group of the International Linear Collider.

In 1988 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society and in 1992 of the American Physical Society . In 2000 he became a CBE .

In 2002 he received the Glazebrook Medal .

literature

  • Biography in: William D. Rubinstein, Michael A. Jolles, Hilary L. Rubinstein (Eds.): The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke et al. 2011, ISBN 978-1-4039-3910-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Kalmus, George e. Author profile . INSPIRE-HEP . Retrieved July 19, 2019.