Pierre Darriulat

Pierre Darriulat

Pierre Jean André Darriulat (* 1938 ) is a French experimental particle physicist .

Life

Pierre Jean Darriulat studied at the École Polytechnique and received his doctorate in 1965 from the University of Paris . From 1960 to 1966 he worked for the CEA on scattering experiments with polarized nucleons. From 1962 to 1964 he was at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and then at CERN in Carlo Rubbia's group and became an expert on proton-proton scattering experiments at the Intersecting Storage Rings (ISR). Darriulat stayed at CERN for the rest of his career until he retired.

From 1978 to 1985 he was speaker of the UA2 experiment at the SPS of CERN, one of the two experiments (the other was UA1 ) at the SPS with which the W and Z bosons were detected and where jet events with quarks and gluons were also examined . He played a key role in the development of the detector. From 1989 to 1994 research director at CERN. He was also involved in setting up and developing the LEP collider.

He later dealt with astrophysics and built the VATLY observatory in Hanoi in cooperation with the Pierre Auger observatory for the research of high-energy cosmic rays. He is a professor in Hanoi.

Darriulat was a Loeb lecturer . In 2008 he received the André Lagarrigue Prize from the Linear Accelerator Laboratory (LAL) in Orsay .

In 1986 he became a corresponding member of the Académie des Sciences .

Fonts

• Réflexions sur la science contemporaine, EDP Sciences 2012

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cern Courier  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Pierre Darriulat: Modern physics built from scratch , Symmetry Magazine 2006
3. ↑ Receipt of the Prix Lagarrigue (pdf), with a biography of Darriulat