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A Royal Fellow:
Particle Physicist Tejinder Singh Virdee
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This year’s fellows for The Royal Society - one of the most coveted fellowships in the world of science - announced on Friday, April 20, 2012, include renowned Sikh-Briton scientist, Professor Tejinder Singh Virdee .
The fellowship is made up of the most eminent scientists, engineers and technologists from the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth. It boasts of more than 80 Nobel Laureates among its fellows.
Thus, Prof. Tejinder Singh - a Particle Physicist - now shares his fellowship with the likes of Sir Isaac Newton, Robert Boyle, Charles Darwin, Sir Alexander Fleming, Dorothy Hodgkin, Stephen Hawking, Sir Ernest Rutherford, Sir J.J. Thompson, William Thomson (Baron Kelvin) and Sir Christopher Wren.
Tejinder Singh is currently Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics at the Imperial College in London, England.
He is primarily distinguished for the design, construction and exploitation of the huge CMS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider.
He originated the concept of CMS with four colleagues around 1990, and now leads over 3000 participants from 38 countries in what has been dubbed the "Biggest Experiment on Earth".
The motivation is the discovery of the mass generating mechanism for matter, currently considered to be the Higgs mechanism, and the nature of what lies beyond the Standard Model.
Tejinder Singh devised a new technology for the large CMS electromagnetic calorimeter and one of his earlier innovations was employed for the hadron calorimeter. He was leader of the collaboration during final commissioning and first data taking between 2006 and 2010 and now concentrates on the search for the Higgs boson. The superb performance of CMS since high energy collisions began at the LHC is testimony to his foresight, expertise and appreciation of the complex interplay of techniques which are needed for such success.
[Courtesy: The Royal Society]
April 23, 2012
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1: Baldev Singh (Bradford, United Kingdom), April 23, 2012, 11:26 AM.
Everything about this article is awesome! ... and oozes ultimate suspense! A Sikh-Briton at the leading edge of looking for the 'God-Particle' in the 'Biggest Experiment on Earth', involved with the greatest machine ever built! Ironically, Guru Nanak says the 'God' we search for in forests and mountains is 'inside' us!