article bulletin (Entire LHCb collaboration)
From: tatsuya.nakada@cern.ch
Date: 7/14/99
Time: 10:19:08 AM
Remote Name: 137.138.115.156
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Dear Colleagues,
As a Memory of Werner we submitted the following article written in
collaboration with L3 and DELPHI, together with the picture of Werner,
to CERN bulletin. It should appear on Friday this week.
yours Tatsuya
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We were shocked and saddened to hear of the sudden death of our friend
and colleague, Werner Ruckstuhl. As many of us had seen him not long
before, the shock was all the more intense.
At CERN, as a member of the University of Geneva, Werner contributed to
the success of the L3 experiment, by commissioning the Xenon calibration
system for the electromagnetic BGO calorimeter. He then moved to
NIKHEF, where he joined DELPHI and participated very actively in B and
tau physics.
Werner's involvement in B physics projects goes back to the PSI B-meson
factory proposal in the late 1980's. He was stongly involved in the
GAJET project, a precursor of the LHCb experiment. In the LHCb
collaboration, he was a founding member and one of the most active
collaborators. He played a leading role in the preparation of the
Technical Proposal. After the approval of the experiment, he led the
effort to optimise the tracking system.
We all remember Werner as an excellent, hard working and enthusiastic
physicist. We will miss his great sense of humour, often demonstrated
during his presentations. His absence will be acutely felt by us for a
long time. We would like to express our deepest sympathy and
condolences to his family.
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