About the Editors
Christian W. Fabjan is an experimental particle physicist, who spent the major part of his career at CERN,
with leading involvement in several of the major
CERN programs. At the Intersecting Storage Rings,
he concentrated on strong interaction physics and the
development of new experimental techniques and followed at the Super Synchrotron with experiments in the
Relativistic Heavy Ion program. At the Large Hadron
Collider, he focused on the development of several
experimental techniques and participated in the ALICE
experiment as Technical Coordinator. He is affiliated
with the Vienna University of Technology and was,
most recently, leading the institute of High Energy
Physics of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Herwig Schopper joined as a research associate at
CERN since 1966 and returned in 1970 as leader of
the Nuclear Physics Division and went on to become
a member of the directorate responsible for the coordination of CERN’s experimental program. He was
chairman of the ISR Committee at CERN from 1973
to 1976 and was elected as member of the Scientific
Policy Committee in 1979. Following Léon Van Hove
and John Adams’ years as Director-General for research
and executive Director-General, Schopper became the
sole Director-General of CERN in 1981.
Schopper’s years as CERN’s Director-General saw
the construction and installation of the Large ElectronPositron Collider (LEP) and the first tests of four
detectors for the LEP experiments. Several facilities
(including ISR, BEBC, and EHS) had to be closed to
free up resources for LEP.
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Christian W. Fabjan is an experimental particle physicist, who spent the major part of his career at CERN,
with leading involvement in several of the major
CERN programs. At the Intersecting Storage Rings,
he concentrated on strong interaction physics and the
development of new experimental techniques and followed at the Super Synchrotron with experiments in the
Relativistic Heavy Ion program. At the Large Hadron
Collider, he focused on the development of several
experimental techniques and participated in the ALICE
experiment as Technical Coordinator. He is affiliated
with the Vienna University of Technology and was,
most recently, leading the institute of High Energy
Physics of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Herwig Schopper joined as a research associate at
CERN since 1966 and returned in 1970 as leader of
the Nuclear Physics Division and went on to become
a member of the directorate responsible for the coordination of CERN’s experimental program. He was
chairman of the ISR Committee at CERN from 1973
to 1976 and was elected as member of the Scientific
Policy Committee in 1979. Following Léon Van Hove
and John Adams’ years as Director-General for research
and executive Director-General, Schopper became the
sole Director-General of CERN in 1981.
Schopper’s years as CERN’s Director-General saw
the construction and installation of the Large ElectronPositron Collider (LEP) and the first tests of four
detectors for the LEP experiments. Several facilities
(including ISR, BEBC, and EHS) had to be closed to
free up resources for LEP.
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