Jean Cleymans (5 August 1944—22 February 2021)[1] was a Belgian physicist and a professor at the University of Cape Town (UCT). He made notable contributions to the area of quark-gluon plasma physics with focus on statistical hadronization.[2]
Jean Cleymans died in an accident in his hometown Turnhout on February 22, 2021.[2][3]
Education
editCleymans obtained his doctorate in physics in 1970 at the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) in Louvain-la-Neuve,[4] Belgium and completed his post-doctoral training in 1977 with habilitation in theoretical and particle-manybody physics at the University of Bielefeld, Germany.[5][6]
Work
editCleymans' research addressed topics pursued by the ALICE Collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider of the CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. Together with professor Zeblon Vilakazi,[7] he was instrumental in establishing the South Africa-CERN programme,[8] the successor to the UCT-CERN Research Centre.[6] He also contributed to the SA-Joint Institute for Nuclear Research with Russia and was Leader of the UCT-ALICE Collaboration at CERN.[6]
Cleymans, a theoretical physicists, has co-authored 299 articles and conference papers with 8,639 citations (status March 3, 2021). In addition, he is listed on 100 LHC-ALICE experimental works which have earned more than 6,000 citations. He also edited a number of books, reports and conference proceedings. His articles have been published in a variety of international journals, among others the European Physical Journal, Physical Review and Physics Letters.[9] Over the years he supervised 24 MSc and 17 PhD students.[1][6]
Cleymans acted as referee for several journals and was listed as a distinguished EPJ referee in 2017.[10] He was member of the editorial board of the MDPI journal Physics[11] and he served as chairman of the South Africa-CERN Programme.[12]
Family
editCleymans was married to Ria (Maria) since 1968, they have two daughters Sylvie (1969-2021) and Silke (1980).[citation needed]
Awards
edit- Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa (1993)[5]
- Alexander von Humboldt Research Award (1999)
- Prize of the Polish Ministry of National Education for Research Excellence (2000)
- Prize of the Polish Ministry of National Education for Outstanding Team Research (2003)[6]
References
edit- ^ a b "Emeritus Professor Jean Cleymans: 1944–2021". www.news.uct.ac.za. Retrieved 2021-03-02.
- ^ a b Redlich, Krzysztof; Satz, Helmut (9 March 2021). "Jean Willy André Cleymans (1944 – 2021)". CERN. Retrieved 2021-03-10.
- ^ "'Verborgen parel' van de wetenschap overleden na ongelukkige val: "Nonkel Jean was inspiratiebron voor duizenden mensen"". www.nieuwsblad.be (in Flemish). 26 February 2021. Retrieved 2021-03-02.
- ^ Cleymans, J. (1970). Les théories des pions mous et durs appliquées aux facteurs de forme des désintégrations faibles. UCL. Louvain: s.n.[permanent dead link]
- ^ a b "Academy of Europe: Cleymans Jean". www.ae-info.org. Retrieved 2021-03-11.
- ^ a b c d e Mail & Guardian: 'Professor Jean Cleymans', 2015
- ^ "2020-06 - Top nuclear physicist to lead Wits - Wits University". www.wits.ac.za. Retrieved 2021-03-19.
- ^ The ATLAS Collaboration (2019). "Building up the Collaboration". ATLAS: A 25-Year Insider Story of the LHC Experiment. Advanced Series on Directions in High Energy Physics. Vol. 30. World Scientific. p. 77. doi:10.1142/9789813271807_0003. ISBN 978-981-327-179-1. S2CID 242376159.
- ^ "INSPIRE: Jean Cleymans' author profile". inspirehep.net. Retrieved 2021-03-02.
- ^ "Distinguished EPJ Referees". www.epj.org. EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica and Springer. Retrieved 2021-03-12.
- ^ "Obituary—Prof. Dr. Jean Cleymans". MDPI. Retrieved 2021-03-12.
- ^ Swingler, Helen (25 October 2013). "Nobel a smashing cause for celebration". www.news.uct.ac.za. Retrieved 2021-03-12.