Sir John Adams: his legacy to the world of particle accelerators

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2011-02-23

arxiv.org/abs/1102.4777v1

Physics

History and Philosophy of Physics

29 pages, John Adams Memorial Lecture 2009, published with high-resolution figures as CERN Yellow Report http://cdsweb.cern.

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John Adams acquired an unrivalled reputation for his leading part in designing and constructing the Proton Synchrotron (PS) in CERN's early days. In 1968, and after several years heading a fusion laboratory in the UK, he came back to Geneva to pilot the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) project to approval and then to direct its construction. By the time of his early death in 1984 he had built the two flagship proton accelerators at CERN and, during the second of his terms as Director-General, he laid the groundwork for the proton-antiproton collider which led to the discovery of the intermediate vector boson. How did someone without any formal academic qualification achieve this? What was the magic behind his leadership? The speaker, who worked many years alongside him, will discuss these questions and speculate on how Sir John Adams might have viewed today's CERN.

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