Herwig Schopper

Herwig Schopper came to CERN in the early 1970s to head the Nuclear Physics Division. Then, after chairing the directorate of the German nuclear research centre DESY for several years, he returned to CERN in 1981, where he was Director-General during the approval and construction of the Large Electron Positron collider.

Herwig Franz Schopper, German physicist, was born in Lanškroun, Czechoslovakia on February 28, 1924.[1][2] He received his physics diploma and doctorate from the University of Hamburg and is Professor Emeritus there. In 1950/51 he was research assistant at the Royal Institute of Technology under Lise Meitner,[1][3] in 1956/57 at the Cavendish Laboratory under Otto Robert Frisch[1] and from 1960/61 at Cornell University under Robert R. Wilson.[1]

His fields of work include optics, nuclear physics and elementary particle physics. Dr. Schopper held various professorships in Germany and he has been deeply involved in management of research laboratories both at a national and international scale.

Prof. Schopper was director of DESY from 1973-80.[4] At CERN Prof. Schopper was Research Associate (1966-1967), Division Leader of the Nuclear Physics Division (1970), member of the Directorate responsible for the Co-ordination of the Experimental Programme, Chairman of the ISR Committee at CERN (1973-1976), member of the Scientific Policy Committee (1979) and finally Director General from 1981-1988.[5]

In 2003, Herwig Schopper was elected to the post of president of the International Centre for Synchrotron-Light for Experimental Science Applications in the Middle East (SESAME) Council.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Curriculum Vitae Professor Dr.Herwig Schopper" (PDF). Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
  2. ↑ "CERN: From Birth to Success". Reviews of Accelerator Science and Technology (World Scientific) 4: 277. doi:10.1142/S1793626811000598.
  3. ↑ Fraser, Gordon (2012). The Quantum Exodus: Jewish Fugitives, the Atomic Bomb, and the Holocaust. Oxford Univ. Press. p. 142. ISBN 9780199592159.
  4. 1 2 "Professor Herwig Franz Schopper 2003 winner AIP Tate Medal for international leadership in physics" (PDF). AIP. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
  5. ↑ Schopper, Herwig (March 2014). "Viewpoint: the 1980's: spurring collaboration". CERN Courier.
  6. ↑ Editor, ÖGV. (2015). Wilhelm Exner Medal. Austrian Trade Association. ÖGV. Austria.
  7. ↑ "UNESCO and AIP honour Schopper". CERN Courier 49 (9): 36. November 2009.
  8. ↑ "CERN honours Schopper at 85". CERN Courier 49 (9): 36. November 2009.
Preceded by
Léon van Hove and John Adams (Co-directors)		 CERN Director General
1981 – 1988 		Succeeded by
Carlo Rubbia


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