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Maurice R. Jacob
CERN/TH, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland.
Tel (+4122) 7672414, Fax (+4122) 767 3850
e-mail : maurice.jacob@cern.ch
Present position:
Retired Senior Research Scientist at CERN
Now: Unpaid visiting scientist in the CERN/TH Division
Home address: 17 Ch Erse, 1218 Grand-Saconnex, Geneva, Switzerland
tel (+4122) 7982007
Personal and family data:
Born on 28 March 1933, in Lyon, France
French citizen
Married with Lise Durand-Gasselin, Psychotherapist
4 children. With 3 daughters in law, one from North America, one from South
America and one from Africa, I learned to live globalization in a direct way.
Training and positions held:
Elève de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France '53-'57
Agrégé de l'Université, Sciences Physiques, '57
Docteur es Sciences, Physique, Université de Paris, France '61
Research Associate, Brookhaven Nat. Lab USA, 57-58
Research Fellow, Caltech, Pasadena, Cal. USA, '58-'59
Military Service, France and Algeria '59-'61
Research Scientist, Saclay, France, '61-'64
Associate Professor, SLAC, Stanford, Cal. USA, '64-'65
Senior Research Scientist, Saclay, '65-'67
Senior Research Scientist, CERN, '67-'71
Visiting Professor at Yale, USA, and Senior Research Scientist at Fermilab USA,
'71-'72. Both at SLAC and at Fermilab I was part of the theory group put together
for one year as the new machine was starting and, in both cases, I was offered to
stay for good.
Permanent Member of CERN (TH Division) from '72 to '98
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Head of the Theory Division, CERN, from '82 to '88
Advisor to the Director General on Member State matters from '94 to '98
Invited lecturer in more than 30 countries.
Research Activities and publications
Research in Theoretical High Energy particle physics.
About 200 published research articles (in English) in leading scientific journals,
including one "citation classic". Two technical books "Strong interaction physics" (in the
Benjamin frontier series), with G.F.Chew, and "The quark structure of matter", WSPC,
and a more general book "In the wings of physics", WSPC.
Contributor to several books. Editor of many specialized books and Reprint
volumes (published with North Holland or WSPC), and of many conference , summer
school and workshop proceedings.
One general readership book "Au coeur de la matière" Ed Odile Jacob, France,
2001.
I wrote about 60 general papers (in English or in French) for various magazines
and books. I have been for 20 years ('70 to '90) the particle physics contributor for
"Encyclopedia Universalis".
Noticeable contributions to research:
'55-'56. Experimental research on pile neutrons, as a student at Saclay.
'57-'65 The helicity formalism, with G.C.Wick. This provided the formalism for
scattering between relativistic particles of arbitrary spins and for the spin and parity
determination of the many newly discovered hadrons. The main paper (with G.C.Wick)
was long one of the most quoted paper in physics (citation classic in ISI statistics).
'61-'72 Contributions to the use of theoretical models and, in particular, those
based on Regge poles, Regge pole-resonance duality and current algebra, in the
phenomenological analysis of strong interaction processes or strong interaction effects
in weak decays; research in collaboration with many different co-authors and, some of
the times, in close collaboration with experimentalists.
'71-'81 Pioneer contribution and detailed analysis of large momentum transfer
reactions, explicating their relation to quark-quark scattering and prediction of jet
dynamics from QCD; with S. Berman, P. Landshoff, R. Horgan... Correct prediction of
all the proton-antiproton collider data and, in particular that of jet and lepton yields in
hadronic reactions.
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'81-'87 Phenomenological analysis of collider results and in particular of all aspects
of jet physics. Contributions to the study of relativistic heavy ion collisions as a probe
for the existence of a quark-gluon plasma. Three times key note speaker in the "quark
matter" conference series.
'87-'91. Study of synchrotron radiation and pair formation in the deep quantum
regime, with T.T.Wu
My main lasting research interest has been the phenomenological study of
hadronic interactions, from their "soft, global" to their "hard, basic" aspects. I have been
twice the reporter for that field in the European conference series ( '69,'79) and three
times in the world (Rochester) conference series ( '72, '84, '90), and once a discussion
leader in that series ('68). Since 1995 I worked at developing the interface between
particle physics, astrophysics and space science with advisory responsibilities at ESA.
Organizer of the ISR Discussion Meetings ('72-'81), the LEP summer study ('78)
and co-organizer of the first "Quark matter" conference ('82) and of the first LHC study
('84). The last three events "set the ball rolling" in these different domains. Organizer of
the first Franco-German conference on "The quark structure of matter", in '85, and of the
EPS conference on "Large Facilities in Physics", in '94. Organizer of the first ESA-CERN
workshop on "Fundamental physics in space", in 2000.
Teaching
Visiting professor at METU, Ankara ('62), Matscience, Madras ('63), Orsay ('63-'64),
INSTN, Saclay ( '66-'67), Yale ('71), Morris Loeb lecturer, Harvard ('71) ,Regents'
lecturer, University of California ('76). Professor at the 3e cycle de Suisse Romande ('77
and '81). All this involved teaching at the graduate level. Lecturer in a large number of
summer schools ( for many years, three per year). Lecturing tours in Japan (twice) and
in China. Organizer of several summer schools, including a Les Houches one and two
CERN-JINR ones, and of topical workshops including the first ESA-CERN one on
"Fundamental physics in space", in 2000.
Editorial responsibilities.
Editor for theoretical particle physics of Phys. Lett. B ('68-'71)
Editor for particle physics of Physics Reports ('71-'86)
These two journals achieved world leadership in particle physics.
General responsibilities.
Vice-President and President of the French Physical Society ('84-'86)
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Secretary of the European Physical Society ('88-'91)
President of the European Physical Society ('91-'93)
Member of a large number of committees, boards, and review panels, in many
countries, often involving chairmanship since the eighties, in particular:
At CERN:
Chairman of the CERN Pauli Committee (8 books of correspondence and essays).
First chairman of the CERN Archive committee
First chairman of the "CERN-Courier committee"
Member of the 3-person steering committee of "Microcosm", the CERN permanent
exhibition on particle physics. It presently attracts over 30.000 visitors per year.
Chairman of the Senior Staff Advisory Committee ('88-'91).
At ESA:
Member of the ESA Lunar Science Study group ('90-'91)
Chairman of the ESA "Fundamental physics in space" Topical Team ('94). This
contributed to the "cornerstone" status granted to the space antenna for
Gravitational Waves (LISA).
Chairman of the ESA Fundamental Physics Advisory Group and member of the
ESA Space Science Advisory Committee, '96-'00.
Member of the Space Science Division Committee, ESTEC, '97-'00.
Vice-Chair of Commission H of COSPAR, '96-'01
On East-West matters:
Member of the Scientific Council of INTAS, since '98-'01
Member of the International Committee for Fundamental Physics in Moscow, '93'99.
Co-producer of the "Science bringing nations together" exhibition in '97.
Chairman of the advisory committee of the Institute of Physics, Tartu, Estonia,
since 2001
Others:
Member of the Acad.Sc. Study on Nuclear Physics ('90)
Member of the CTGE, advising the French Minister on large scientific equipments
('94-'97)
Member of the Visiting Committee of Imperial College ('88-'93)
Member of the committee "Un avenir pour Genève" ('95-'98).
Chairman of the Joint Astrophysics Division of the EPS and the EAS, since 2000.
Member of the Middle East Science Co-operation committee ('94-'99).
Member of the Advisory committee of "Physics Today" (only foreigner), '96-'02
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Honors.
Silver Medal, CNRS ('67)
Correspondant de l'Institut, France, since '77
Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, since '89
Member of Academia Europea, since '92
Honorary Member of the Société de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Genève.
Foreign Member of the Academy of Sciences of Torino, since '97
Fellow of the American Physical society. " For unique and original contributions to
theoretical particle physics; for exemplary leadership in promoting communications
among physicists in Europe, and among learned societies throughout the world "
Fellow of the Institute of Physics, UK
Chevalier of the French Légion d'Honneur