Peter Jenni

Peter Jenni 2013

Peter Jenni (born April 17, 1948 in Iffwil ) is a Swiss experimental particle physicist.

Jenni obtained his physics diploma in 1973 from the University of Bern and received his doctorate in 1976 from the ETH Zurich . As early as 1972 he took part in experiments at the synchrocyclotron at CERN and from 1974–1976 at the proton synchrotron at CERN and then at the intersecting storage rings . 1978/79 he was at the SLAC in Stanford. From 1980 he was a member of the staff of CERN and was involved in the UA2 experiment at the Super Proton Synchrotron . With this detector and the UA1 detector, the W and Z bosons were detected in 1983 under the direction of Carlo Rubbia . In 1987 he became head of the UA2 group. Later he was involved in management tasks in the preparation of the Large Hadron Collider and the ATLAS detector. The technical proposal of the ATLAS took place in 1994 and from 1995 to 2009 Jenni was its spokesman. His successor was Fabiola Gianotti . Up to 3000 physicists were and are (2012) involved in the experiment, and there and at the second large LHC detector CMS , the probable discovery of the Higgs boson took place in 2012 .

Awards

2012: Special Fundamental Physics Prize for the discovery of the Higgs boson (together with Fabiola Gianotti , Michel Della Negra , Tejinder Singh Virdee , Guido Tonelli , Joe Incandela and Lyn Evans )
2012: Julius Wess Prize of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (together with Michel Della Negra )
2013: Ernst Mach Medal of Honor
2013: High Energy and Particle Physics Prize of the European Physical Society (together with Tejinder Virdee , Michel Della Negra and the CMS and Atlas collaboration)
2017: Panofsky Prize (with Virdee and Della Negra)

Peter Jenni holds honorary doctorates from the Universities of Stockholm / Sweden, Copenhagen / Denmark, Nova Gorica / Slovenia, Aix-Marseille / France, the Universidad Catolica de Chile , the State University of Tbilisi , the Weizmann Institute , as well as the University of Bern and the ETH Zurich .

Web links

Abha Eli Phoboo: Everyone Here Is Motivated By Physics. Interview with Peter Jenni. June 17, 2013 (English).; accessed on April 19, 2019
ATLAS party in tribute to Peter Jenni. CERN, 2009(photos).; accessed on April 19, 2019

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Peter Jenni: Measurement of the real part of the nuclear scattering amplitude in the forward direction for elastic scattering between 1.2 and 2.6 GeV / c by observing the Coulomb nuclear scattering interference ${\ displaystyle {\ bar {p}} p}$ . 1976 ( ethz.ch [PDF] only title page and abstract).
^ Marianne Schröder: Dr. Peter Jenni: visiting scholar at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg since May 2013. Accessed on April 19, 2019 (biography from 2013).
↑ HEPP Prize 2013. (pdf) In: Press release. CERN, 2013, accessed April 19, 2019 .
↑ Físico Peter Jenni recibe el grado de académico Doctor Honoris Causa. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, April 28, 2014, accessed April 19, 2019 (Spanish).
↑ PhD honoris causa recipient: Prof. Peter Jenni. October 30, 2017, accessed April 19, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Jenni, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss physicist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 17, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH	Iffwil

[Diss1976-1] Peter Jenni: Measurement of the real part of the nuclear scattering amplitude in the forward direction for elastic scattering between 1.2 and 2.6 GeV / c by observing the Coulomb nuclear scattering interference ${\ displaystyle {\ bar {p}} p}$ . 1976 ( ethz.ch [PDF] only title page and abstract).

[2] Marianne Schröder: Dr. Peter Jenni: visiting scholar at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg since May 2013. Accessed on April 19, 2019 (biography from 2013).

[3] HEPP Prize 2013. (pdf) In: Press release. CERN, 2013, accessed April 19, 2019 .

[4] Físico Peter Jenni recibe el grado de académico Doctor Honoris Causa. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, April 28, 2014, accessed April 19, 2019 (Spanish).

[5] PhD honoris causa recipient: Prof. Peter Jenni. October 30, 2017, accessed April 19, 2019 .