CERN-In 1990 European Centre for Nuclear Research landed an order to deliver a complex set of computer modules for experiments from my company. It followed with further requests. Finally in 1991 December I got a blank order for 1992. And this is how we got along so well, that I was in Meyrin every other month from then on. Now I am on the other side of the Atlantic, but still keep contact with this great bunch of scientists trying to crack the atom. Many friends have retired, Dr Parkman, Dr. Eck and others, But even today more than 22 to years later, the news which arrived this morning is worth to publish for others to know.
Professor Agnieszka Zalewska Elected President of CERN Council
Geneva, 20 September 2012. CERN[1]
Council today elected Professor Agnieszka Zalewska as its 21st
President for a period of one year renewable twice, with a mandate
starting on 1 January 2013. Professor Zalewska takes over from Michel
Spiro who comes to the conclusion of his three-year term at the end of
December.
“I feel particularly honoured to have presided over the CERN
Council through a period that has seen the first major results from the
LHC,” said Professor Spiro. “But we are just at the start, so
while warmly thanking CERN management and personnel for the last three
years, I’d like to wish Professor Zalewska all the very best as the LHC
adventure continues to unfold.”
Agnieszka Zalewska is a Professor at the H. Niewodniczański Institute
of High Energy Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She has a
distinguished career in particle physics and a long association with
CERN. She received her doctorate in 1975 from the Jagellonian University, Krakow, for work carried out on bubble chamber data from an
experiment at CERN. Later, she worked on the DELPHI experiment at CERN’s
Large Electron Positron collider, LEP, where she played an important
role in the development of silicon tracking detectors. Since 2000, she
has been involved with neutrino physics through the ICARUS experiment at
Italy’s Gran Sasso National Laboratory, which studies a neutrino beam
sent through the Earth from CERN, and has also been involved with
feasibility studies for an underground laboratory in Poland. She has
been a member of several CERN committees, and has been the Polish
scientific delegate to the CERN Council since January 2010.
“The coming years will be fascinating, but demanding, as we prepare
the LHC for running at higher energies and implement the updated
European Strategy for Particle Physics,” said Zalewska. “CERN
and its Council will become my only priority, and I would like to thank
the Council members and outgoing President for the confidence they have
placed in me.”
