Learn · CERN

Talk56 min

The Spirit counts - People at and around CERN

Herwig SCHOPPER · CERN

Watch At CERN

About

Abstract After a few biographical remarks I shall concentrate on human aspects which are not covered by official documents, but which are as important to the success of CERN as scientific and technical competence. The approval of LEP, general problems of the project management and the approval of the LEP experiments under conditions never encountered before at CERN will be covered. The special spirit created at CERN based on the competence and solidarity of the CERN staff and its users made it possible to find new ways of successful international collaboration combining competition with cooperation.

Career Summary Physics diploma and doctorate from Hamburg University, now Prof. emer.; research assistant at Stockholm Technical University (with Lise Meitner); Cavendish Laboratory UK (with O.R.Frisch); Cornell University (with R.R. Wilson); research in optics, nuclear and elementary particle physics. various professorships in Germany and director of university institutes; Director of DESY, Hamburg, 1973-1980; Director-General of CERN, Geneva, 1981-1988; former presidencies: Association of German Research Centres (now Helmholtz Association); German and European Physical Societies; SESAME Council; Chair of Scientific Board of International Basic Science Programme (UNESCO). member of various academies, several academic and other distinctions..

0:00:00 Slide 1

0:00:20 Slide 2

0:01:30 Slide 3

0:02:15 Slide 4

0:03:35 Slide 5

0:04:32 Slide 6

0:04:58 Slide 7

0:06:02 Slide 8

0:06:47 Slide 9

0:07:54 Slide 10

The talk

  1. The Spirit counts - People at and around CERN 2014-09-16 · 56 min · CERN's player

Credits and licence

Institution
CERN
Department
Public Events
Speaker
Herwig SCHOPPER
Year
2014
Language
English
Source
CERN
Licence
CERN, as CERN states it. CERN's terms
Attribution
© CERN. CERN provides its audiovisual media free of charge for educational and informational use, credited to CERN; this lecture is shown in CERN's own player.
Who can watch
CERN gives no rating. Invisible Network shows it to Teens profiles and older, judged from what the source says about it. How courses are placed