Harnam Singh Hans
(21st Nov., 1922 - 19th March, 2014)
Prof H.S. Hans Memorial Lecture, March 2018
Panjab University, Chandigarh
Department of Physics, Centre of Advanced Study
Second H.S. Hans Memorial Lecture
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Prof. H. S. Hans earned B.A. from Panjab University in 1945, M.Sc (Physics) degree from Banaras Hindu University in 1948 and Ph.D. from Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) in 1956. He established a 150 kV Cockcroft-Walton type accelerator at AMU in 1958. He served as Head, Department of Physics at Panjab University (1967-1979), where he established the Variable Energy Cyclotron that was gifted from Rochester University (NY). Prof. Hans played leading role for the Nuclear Physics community in proposing Accelerator-based centres for universities. The efforts resulted in the Inter-University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi, based on a 15 MV Tandem accelerator. Prof. Hans has dedicated his whole life in developing the Accelerator-based Nuclear Science in Indian Universities. He has been conferred with prestigious “INS Outstanding Service Award” instituted by Indian Nuclear Society under the category of Nuclear Science Education for the year 2011. |
| Prof. H.S. Hans (1922 –2014) |
Prof. Tejinder Singh Virdee,
known for Originating the concept and overseeing the construction of CMS
Sir Tejinder Singh Virdee, FRS, is Professor of Physics at Imperial College London. In 2012 he celebrated 30 years at Imperial College. Virdee is best known for originating the concept and overseeing the construction of Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS), experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, with four other colleagues and has been referred to as one of the ‘founding fathers’ of the project. In July 2012 CMS, along with the ATLAS experiment, announced the discovery of a Higgs boson that merited the 2013 Physics Nobel Prize to the theorists who discovered the mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of fundamental particles. CMS is now a world-wide collaboration which started in 1990 and has over 3000 participants from 38 countries.
Virdee was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 2012 and was knighted in the the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2014.
HONOURS AND AWARDS
- 2014 Knight Bachelor, The Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2014
- 2014 Visiting Professor of Science, New College of the Humanities, London U.K.
- 2013 Doctor Honoris Causa, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France.
- 2013 Doctor Honoris Causa, Queen Mary University of London, U.K.
- 2013 GG2 Award Asian Leadership Awards, “person of the Year”, London, U.K. and 37th in list of Britain’s 101 Most Influential Asians.
- 2013 India International Award for Science, London, U.K.
- 2010 Sikh Awards for Education, London, U.K.
- 2012 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society, London
- 2012 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society, London
- 2013 High Energy Particle Physics Prize, European Physical Society.
- 2012 Special Fundamental Physics Prize
- 2010 Named 62nd in “EUREKA 100: The Science List” – The London Times’ 100 most important figures in British science.
- 2009 IOP Chadwick Prize and Medal
- 2007 IOP High Energy Physics Prize
- 2007 Named in the list of “100 Personalities that make Swiss Romandie”; l’Hebdo magazine, Switzerland.
Professor H.S. Hans Innovation Award 2018 
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