Peter Jenni
Swiss physicist · Switzerland · On the map · Scientists · Born 1948 · age 78
Peter Jenni is an experimental particle physicist working at CERN. He is best known as one of the "founding fathers" of the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider together with a few other colleagues. He acted as spokesperson of the ATLAS Collaboration until 2009.
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ATLAS is a world-wide collaboration which started in 1992 involving roughly 3,000 physicists at 183 institutions in 38 countries. Jenni was directly involved in the experimental work leading to the discoveries of the W and Z bosons in the 1980s and the Higgs boson in 2012. He is (co-)author of about 1000 publications in scientific journals.
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Donald Hill PerkinsBoth received High Energy and Particle Physics Prize
David R. NygrenBoth received Panofsky PrizeBjørn WiikBoth received High Energy and Particle Physics PrizeBruce WinsteinBoth received Panofsky Prize
Piermaria OddoneBoth received Panofsky Prize