We have learned with great sadness that the distinguished Italian theoretical physicist Guido Altarelli passed away on the 30th of September 2015.
Guido was a major figure in the field of particle physics, who made important contributions to the understanding of electroweak and strong interactions, neutrinos, and theories beyond the standard model. He had recently shared the prestigious EPS High Energy Physics Prize
Alexander Sergeevitch Alexandrov, a condensed matter theorist who was well known for his extensive contributions to the theory of superconductivity, physics of polarons, and other topics, died of a heart attack on 14 August 2012 in Campinas, Brazil.
Alexandrov was born on 30 July 1946. He did his PhD thesis with Vladimir Elesin as his advisor on quantum transport in semiconductors in 1973. Soon after, he became interested in superconductivity, …
The European Physical Society would like to pay tribute to one of its former members, Rudolf L. Mößbauer, who passed away, at the age of 82, on 14 September this year.
Mößbauer, who was born in Munich in 1929, worked with the Technical University of Munich, the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, the California Institute of Technology and the Institut Laue–Langevin during his career.
He is perhaps most well-known for his PhD work, in which he detailed and explained the recoilless nuclear fluorescence…
The European Physical Society would like to pay tribute to Zenonas Rokus Rudzikas, whose passing away in June this year, at the age of 71, was sudden and unexpected.
Rudzikas was a well-respected and much liked member of the European research community. He was a member of the EPS Executive Committee, a past President of the Lithuanian Physical Society and was an active member of the European Economic and Social Council…