Michel Spiro
Michel Spiro | |
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Born | |
Nationality | French |
Alma mater | École polytechnique |
Awards | Prix Thibaud (1985) Prix Félix-Robin (1999) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
Institutions | CEA IN2P3 CERN |
Michel Spiro (born 24 February 1946 in Roanne, Loire, France) is a French physicist.
Biography
Michel Spiro attended the high school Jean-Puy de Roanne. Spiro obtained the baccalauréat in 1963, with a specialisation in elementary mathematics. After this, he attended the school
He joined the
Spiro obtained his PhD
From 1983 to 1999, Professor Spiro lectured
From 2010 to 2013 he was President of CERN Council. His presidency overlapped with the start of LHC physics.[8] Since then Spiro helds the position as research director emeritus at the CEA.
Michel Spiro was president of the
In June 2020, Michel Spiro was appointed chair of the CERN and Society Foundation Board,
Spiro chairs the steering committee of the International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development (IYBSSD2022). The International Year was proclaimed by the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly 2 December 2021.[15] IYBSSD was officially inaugurated in July 2022[16] and extend until December 2023. He also contributed towards the proclamation on August 25 2023, by the United Nations General Assembly, of an International Decade of Sciences for Sustainable Development 2024 -2033.[17]
Awards and honors
- Officer of the Legion of Honour (2021),[18][19] Knight (2004)[20]
- National Order of Merit (France) (2008)[21]
- 1983 : Joliot-Curie Prize of the French Physical Society
- 1985 : Thibaud Prize of the Academy of Lyon
- 1995 : Philip Morris Research Prize shared with M. Cribier and D. Vignaud for solar neutrinos (GALLEX)
- 1999 : Félix Robin Prize of the Société Française de Physique
- 2000 : Prize of the l'Association française pour le rayonnement international
- 2015 : Fellow of the European Physical Society [22]
- 2018 : Prix A. Lagarrigue[23]
- 2020 : Honorary doctor of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research[24]
Works and publications
Scientific articles
The database INSPIRE-HEP has recorded more than 200 scientific articles signed by Spiro.
Articles of special importance
- Experimental Observation of Isolated Large Transverse Energy Electrons with Associated Missing Energy at s**(1/2) =540-GeV. UA1 Collaboration (G.Arnison et al.). Feb 1983. 31 pp. Phys. Lett. B122 (1983) 103-116 DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(83)91177-2
- Experimental Particle Physics Without Accelerators. J. Rich, D. Lloyd Owen, M. Spiro (Saclay). 1987. 126 pp. Phys. Rep. 151 (1987) 239-364 DOI: 10.1016/0370-1573(87)90055-X
- Search for superheavy hydrogen in sea water. M. Spiro, B. Pichard, J. Rich, J.P. Soirat, S. Zylberajch (DAPNIA, Saclay), G. Grynberg, F. Trehin, P. Verkerk, Pierre Fayet (École Normale Superieure), M.E. Goldberg (Pasteur Inst., Paris). 1990. Les Arcs 1990, Proceedings, New and exotic phenomena '90 489-498'
- Evidence for gravitational microlensing by dark objects in the galactic halo. EROS collaboration E. Aubourg, P. Bareyre, S. Brehin, M. Gros, M. Lachieze-Rey, B. Laurent, E. Lesquoy, C. Magneville, A. Milsztain, L. Moscoso (DAPNIA, Saclay) et al.. Oct 1993. 3 pp. Nature 365 (1993) 623-625 DOI: 10.1038/365623a0
Selected books
- OCLC 708295981.
- OCLC 489906340.
- OCLC 984147627.
- Basdevant, J. L.; Rich, James; Spiro, Michel (2005). Fundamentals in nuclear physics : from nuclear structure to cosmology. New York: Springer. OCLC 262679959.
- OCLC 470732872.
- Tannoudji, Gilles (2013). Le boson et le chapeau mexicain : un nouveau grand récit de l'univers (in French). Paris: Gallimard. OCLC 852216917.
- Bernardeau, Francis; OCLC 862954310.
References
- ^ "Michel Spiro, Emeritus Research Director, CEA". ATTRACT. 3 Oct 2019. Archived from the original on 3 October 2019.
- ^ Spiro, Michel (1977). Etude des résonances mésoniques étranges produites dans les interactions K−p à 14,3 GeV/c (PhD). CEA.
- ISSN 0370-2693.
- ISSN 0370-2693.
- ^ a b "PCCP Permanent researchers: Michel Spiro". PCCP Homepage. The Paris Center for Cosmological Physics. Retrieved 2019-10-07.
- S2CID 4303500.
- S2CID 15389106.
- ^ "Agnieszka Zalewska elected president of CERN council". CERN News. Geneva. 20 September 2012. Archived from the original on 13 June 2019. Retrieved 13 June 2019.
- ^ "Michel Spiro - Le CERN, le LHC et la découverte du Boson de Higgs". France Culture (in French). 2013-06-22. Retrieved 2018-05-22.
- ^ "Executive Council: Officers 2017-2020 | IUPAP: The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics". iupap.org. Archived from the original on 2019-04-02. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
- ^ "Presidents' resignation – new leadership". IUPAP. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
- ^ McKellar, Bruce (December 2019). "New leadership of IUPAP" (PDF). IUPAP Newsletter. Retrieved 5 December 2019.
- ^ "Spiro appointed IUPAP president". CERN Courier. 59 (6): 54. Retrieved 5 December 2019.
- ^ "Michel Spiro and Fido Dittus take the leadership of the CERN & Society Foundation". CERN. Retrieved 2020-09-17.
- ^ "2022 proclaimed the International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development by the United Nations General Assembly | Site Web IRD". en.ird.fr. Retrieved 2022-02-09.
- ^ "Webcast: The opening ceremony for the International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development". UNESCO. 8 July 2022.
- ^ Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 25 August 2023: International Decade of Sciences for Sustainable Development, 2024–2033 (PDF) (A/RES/77/326 ed.). New York: United Nations. 2023.
- ^ Décret du 13 juillet 2021 portant promotion et nomination dans l'ordre national de la Légion d'honneur. 2021.
- ^ "Michel Spiro promoted to officer of the Legion of Honour, France's highest order of merit". CERN. Retrieved 2022-01-12.
- ^ "Décret du 9 avril 2004 portant promotion et nomination". Journal officiel de la République française. 11 April 2004. Archived from the original on 29 March 2019.
- ^ Décret du 16 mai 2008 portant promotion et nomination. Archived from the original on 2019-07-02. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
- ^ "EPS Distinctions 2015". EPS news. European Physical Society. 2017-05-26. Archived from the original on 2017-10-05. Retrieved 2017-10-05.
- ^ "Cérémonie de la Remise du Prix A. Lagarrigue 2018 à Michel Spiro : Friday 29 Nov 2019". Indico. Laboratoire de l’Accélérateur Linéaire – Centre Scientifique d’Orsay. Archived from the original on November 25, 2019. Retrieved November 25, 2019.
- ^ "New Honorary Doctors of JINR". Joint Institute for Nuclear Research. Retrieved 2020-10-05.