Chinese government announced that Shin-ichi Kurokawa, professor emeritus at KEK, Japan, and vice president of Cosylab, was given the International Science and Technology Cooperation Award of the People’s Republic of China on 18 January 2013. After receiving the Award for International Scientific Cooperation of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2011 and the Friendship Award of […]
China awards Shin-ichi Kurokawa the 2012 Friendship Award
Shin-ichi Kurokawa, professor emeritus at KEK, vice president of Cosylab and former chair of the ILC Steering Committee, was awarded the Friendship Award of China, the highest honour that the Chinese government confers to foreign experts for their contribution and dedication to China’s economic construction and social development. On 28 September, the awards ceremony for […]
Jean Trân Thanh Vân receives Tate medal
I was thrilled to learn that the American Institute of Physics had awarded the Tate Medal for 2011 to Jean Trân Thanh Vân. Tran epitomises global science, and both physics (especially high-energy physics) and his native country of Vietnam are greatly indebted to him for his dedication to bringing leading physicists from around the world […]
Jialin Xie wins China’s top science award
Jialin Xie, professor at the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), was awarded the State Top Scientific and Technological Award and a bonus of five million yuan by President Jintao Hu at a ceremony held in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on 14 […]
From DESY: Hamburg accelerates particle physics
Attracting women into science
Director’s Corner 3 June 2010 Barry Barish Attracting women into science Why don’t more women become scientists? Although there have been growing numbers of women going into the life sciences, the physical sciences lag woefully behind. Clearly, the health and advancement of science depends critically on attracting the best and the brightest minds into the […]
ILC technology gets awarded
On 23 March, the 2008 Nishikawa Award Ceremony was held in Tokyo, and awards were given to three ILC scientists: Yoshihisa Iwashita (Kyoto University), Hitoshi Hayano (KEK) and Yujiro Tajima (Toshiba Co., Ltd). Nishikawa Award commemorates a deed of Tetsuji Nishikawa, former KEK Director General, and honours the achievements of highly creative, internationally recognised, R&D […]