Tejinder Virdee
Sir Tejinder Singh Virdee,, is a Kenyan-born British experimental particle physicist and Professor of Physics at Imperial College London. He is best known for originating the concept of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) alongside a few other colleagues and has been referred to as one of the 'founding fathers' of the project. CMS is a world-wide collaboration which started in 1991 and now has over 3500 participants from 50 countries.
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- Born in
- Nyeri
- Educated at
- Queen Mary University of London
- Awards
- 🏆 Knight Bachelor🏆 Panofsky Prize🏆 Glazebrook Medal🏆 Fellow of the Royal Society🏆 High Energy and Particle Physics Prize
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Peter Dornan
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1952
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