Letter Contributions from Friends and Colleagues for Herman Winick Symposium
October 2, 2012
Dear Herman:
Perhaps a little late, but I wish you a happy 80th birthday. Glad to see that a nice symposium is being organized for this joyous occasion. Pierro has kindly informed many of us.
I would have liked to come and just be in the audience. However, on October 3rd, we have our 5 year Beamline Review meeting, which is crucial for our future.
So I wish you another healthy decade or two. With your energy and enthusiasm, by the time you really retire, every country in the world will have at least one synchrotron.
So I look forward to working with you on SESAME and other joint endeavors. So see you in November in Amman, perhaps...
Please give my best to Renee.. Ercan Alp
Dear Herman,
Quite some time ago I took a commitment to deliver a keynote speech at the inauguration of the academic year of a university in Poland on Oct. 1st and I cannot attend the celebration of your 80th birthday.
I wish nonetheless to express my heartfelt wishes and express my appreciation of what you accomplished so far.
Many people, I am sure, will praise your outstanding contribution and your leadership in accelerator physics and in particular in accelerator-based light sources. I would like to mention here the leadership you exerted as a true world citizen, and an ambassador of the human value of science as a vehicle for a better world, enlightened by reason. We need many people of this kind; and this is one of the reasons for which I wish you a long and healthy life, in which you should continue to spread this message in all parts of the world.
Happy birthday, Massimo Altarelli
Quite some time ago I took a commitment to deliver a keynote speech at the inauguration of the academic year of a university in Poland on Oct. 1st and I cannot attend the celebration of your 80th birthday.
I wish nonetheless to express my heartfelt wishes and express my appreciation of what you accomplished so far.
Many people, I am sure, will praise your outstanding contribution and your leadership in accelerator physics and in particular in accelerator-based light sources. I would like to mention here the leadership you exerted as a true world citizen, and an ambassador of the human value of science as a vehicle for a better world, enlightened by reason. We need many people of this kind; and this is one of the reasons for which I wish you a long and healthy life, in which you should continue to spread this message in all parts of the world.
Happy birthday, Massimo Altarelli
Congratulations for the 80th Happy Birthday of Professor Herman Winick !!!
Please excuse the absence of some of your students in Japan. We are celebrating the event here in Japan. This letter is from Masami Ando, Tomotaro Katsura and Shigeru Yamamoto. We have a lot of fantastic memories studying under Professor Herman Winick over the course of a few decades that started from Herman's series of lectures way back in the late 1970's at INS-SOR in Tanashi in the outskirts of Tokyo. Herman so kindly went to the trouble of bringing us large bags full of all kinds of necessary synchrotron documents. This visit came realized by the request of Professor Kohra to the Director Professor Arthur Bienenstock We really learned a lot about synchrotron radiation from him. That contact was an important basis and a first step for the construction of the Photon Factory at Tsukuba. Using full knowledge of the design of the photon producing machine and beamlines we were able to get the machine running to produce the initial beamlines in 1982, three years after start of the construction in 1979. We had hoped to achieve this since the early 70's when the Japanese community, headed by Professor Kohra, discussed with enthusiasm the necessity of a synchrotron radiation source in the future. Until now you have given so many interesting and stimulating lectures at a variety of scientific meetings in Japan including the lectures at the commemorating event at Photon Factory. Also you have played a key role for five years as a member of the International Advisory Board for the world's largest synchrotron [SPring-8]. We know that you have extended your activities of making synchrotron science more familiar over the rest of the world, particularly in the Middle East through the very successful SESAMI project. Also we very much appreciate that you have continued to pay attention to medical activities. This has contributed so much to our community.
In addition to having done a lot of lecture type activities for the synchrotron society in Japan we also very much appreciate your kindly sending us the best accelerator scientists during the construction phase such as Robert Hettel.
There are now only a limited number of countries holding synchrotron radiation sources. However we do believe other countries also want to have synchrotron. For the community of synchrotron science you are a definitely an irreplaceable scientist so we truly hope that you are able to continue the activity as you have done in the past. Please try to play a role of Marijusri Bodhisattva who is believed to deliver light onto the world - an idea based on oriental philosophy.
Last but not the least your fantastic activity must have been supported by your dear wife Renee. We would like to thank her very much as well. We wish you both good health and hope to see you sometime in the near future. Again, congratulations! Masami Ando, Tomotaro Katsura and Shigeru Yamamoto.
Please excuse the absence of some of your students in Japan. We are celebrating the event here in Japan. This letter is from Masami Ando, Tomotaro Katsura and Shigeru Yamamoto. We have a lot of fantastic memories studying under Professor Herman Winick over the course of a few decades that started from Herman's series of lectures way back in the late 1970's at INS-SOR in Tanashi in the outskirts of Tokyo. Herman so kindly went to the trouble of bringing us large bags full of all kinds of necessary synchrotron documents. This visit came realized by the request of Professor Kohra to the Director Professor Arthur Bienenstock We really learned a lot about synchrotron radiation from him. That contact was an important basis and a first step for the construction of the Photon Factory at Tsukuba. Using full knowledge of the design of the photon producing machine and beamlines we were able to get the machine running to produce the initial beamlines in 1982, three years after start of the construction in 1979. We had hoped to achieve this since the early 70's when the Japanese community, headed by Professor Kohra, discussed with enthusiasm the necessity of a synchrotron radiation source in the future. Until now you have given so many interesting and stimulating lectures at a variety of scientific meetings in Japan including the lectures at the commemorating event at Photon Factory. Also you have played a key role for five years as a member of the International Advisory Board for the world's largest synchrotron [SPring-8]. We know that you have extended your activities of making synchrotron science more familiar over the rest of the world, particularly in the Middle East through the very successful SESAMI project. Also we very much appreciate that you have continued to pay attention to medical activities. This has contributed so much to our community.
In addition to having done a lot of lecture type activities for the synchrotron society in Japan we also very much appreciate your kindly sending us the best accelerator scientists during the construction phase such as Robert Hettel.
There are now only a limited number of countries holding synchrotron radiation sources. However we do believe other countries also want to have synchrotron. For the community of synchrotron science you are a definitely an irreplaceable scientist so we truly hope that you are able to continue the activity as you have done in the past. Please try to play a role of Marijusri Bodhisattva who is believed to deliver light onto the world - an idea based on oriental philosophy.
Last but not the least your fantastic activity must have been supported by your dear wife Renee. We would like to thank her very much as well. We wish you both good health and hope to see you sometime in the near future. Again, congratulations! Masami Ando, Tomotaro Katsura and Shigeru Yamamoto.
Dear Piero: A great idea.
Please make excuses for me to my dear friends Herman and Rene as I will be lecturing at SPring-8's Cheiron School that day.
David Attwood
Please make excuses for me to my dear friends Herman and Rene as I will be lecturing at SPring-8's Cheiron School that day.
David Attwood
Dear Herman,
You are indeed a Class Act!In looking over your extensive career in physics and human rights, a quote from Churchill comes to mind:"Never have so many owed so much to so few..." Moishe Pripstein
You are indeed a Class Act!In looking over your extensive career in physics and human rights, a quote from Churchill comes to mind:"Never have so many owed so much to so few..." Moishe Pripstein
Dear Herman,
We'll remember forever the heroic days at the CEA, with a physics discovery and many other things that set the course of our careers. Then later crossing paths again at FIP. You were always a hero, and the "individual" among our many individualistic people. All the best in the next heroic phase of your life.
Harvey and Linda Newman
We'll remember forever the heroic days at the CEA, with a physics discovery and many other things that set the course of our careers. Then later crossing paths again at FIP. You were always a hero, and the "individual" among our many individualistic people. All the best in the next heroic phase of your life.
Harvey and Linda Newman
Dear Prof. Winick,
It was always a pleasure meeting you and discussing different aspects of our common interest. You have been for me the role model who can bring scientists from different nations together for the common good. Wish you all the good life, full of happiness and good health, to keep up this great work. With respect,
Samer Banna
It was always a pleasure meeting you and discussing different aspects of our common interest. You have been for me the role model who can bring scientists from different nations together for the common good. Wish you all the good life, full of happiness and good health, to keep up this great work. With respect,
Samer Banna
I'm very glad to be here today. As you know, my career in the synchrotron radiation field started here at Stanford under your guidance in 1988. From that period we have been staying in touch, and, of course, I'd like to continue to keep in touch with you.
Best wishes, Shigemi
Best wishes, Shigemi
Dear Herman,
Fabulous to attend your celebration today and pay tribute to your many contributions to science and human rights. I am privileged to know you & to have benefited from working with you on an Education Task Force & also for being able to reuse an early wiggler in a test beam experiment at ESA. And of course it is great fun to play softball together!
Best wishes, Heather and Mike Woods
Fabulous to attend your celebration today and pay tribute to your many contributions to science and human rights. I am privileged to know you & to have benefited from working with you on an Education Task Force & also for being able to reuse an early wiggler in a test beam experiment at ESA. And of course it is great fun to play softball together!
Best wishes, Heather and Mike Woods
Dear Herman,
You have taught and inspired me in ways you could never know. Thanks so much. I am glad to be back at Stanford with you in the early days of LCLS.
Best regards, David Reis
You have taught and inspired me in ways you could never know. Thanks so much. I am glad to be back at Stanford with you in the early days of LCLS.
Best regards, David Reis
Dear Herman,
It is great to hear about your long career. It makes me remember the phone call we would always get at 6 am wondering how the machine was running. Thanks for all you've done to develop x-ray science.
Paul Fuoss
It is great to hear about your long career. It makes me remember the phone call we would always get at 6 am wondering how the machine was running. Thanks for all you've done to develop x-ray science.
Paul Fuoss
Herman
First experiment together at CEA, where you deteriorated the vacuum in Straight Section 11, giving a bremsstrahlung beam for σ(tot)γ―>e+e- on carbon to 2%, and now all this today.
Congrats and HAPPY BIRTHDAY. Mervyn Wong
Congrats and HAPPY BIRTHDAY. Mervyn Wong
Herman,
I've admired you and your attention to SSRL since the day you arrived. FarrelI still remember a great day walking on the Great Wall of china with you.
Manetta
I've admired you and your attention to SSRL since the day you arrived. FarrelI still remember a great day walking on the Great Wall of china with you.
Manetta
Herman,
Congratulations on all your great achievements in science and your extraordinary accomplishments in defending human rights.
Bob Cahn
Congratulations on all your great achievements in science and your extraordinary accomplishments in defending human rights.
Bob Cahn
Dear Herman,
YY Labs and I thank you for all the encouragement and help. Most important thing is far beyond this. Your achievements are the results of your insight to people and things, your persistence, your dedication to what you are doing, and your beliefs. You represent what an American should be. I hope that there are more like you in the US.
YY
YY Labs and I thank you for all the encouragement and help. Most important thing is far beyond this. Your achievements are the results of your insight to people and things, your persistence, your dedication to what you are doing, and your beliefs. You represent what an American should be. I hope that there are more like you in the US.
YY
Dear Herman,
You were among our first friends at Stanford, and will always be the best friends we could ask for.
All the best + love, Phil Bucksbaum and Roberta Morris.
You were among our first friends at Stanford, and will always be the best friends we could ask for.
All the best + love, Phil Bucksbaum and Roberta Morris.
Re: Symposium to Honor Herman Winick on his 80th Birthday
I am Silviu Axinescu, former Senior Scientist at the Institute of Atomic Physics, Bucharest, Romania, with the main field of interest in cyclic electron accelerators.
Thank you very much for the kind invitation to attend the Symposium to Honor Herman Winick on his 80th Birthday!
Unfortunately, I am not able to come, due to a lot of reasons, the most important being the very large distance from Bucharest, Romania where I live, to Stanford, CA. However, I am kindly asking you to pass the following short letter to the participants and to Herman himself.
I have no doubts that Herman's extraordinary scientific achievements were pointed out during the Symposium. However, I would like to tell you several words about Herman Winick, the man!
He is a very special person which is ready always to help in all possible directions. In early nineties, a project for a low - energy synchrotron radiation source (SRS) in Romania was considered. Herman helped us with a lot of information and put us in contact with other synchrotron radiation groups, trying to facilitate the possible building of a Romanian SRS. It is of no relevance the fact that in the end it was not possible to build the proposed SRS in Romania.
Herman Winick strongly intervened in a case of violation of human rights in Romania, when the right to travel was denied to a Romanian scientist. The fact that this scientist was just me has no importance!
Herman is among the very few persons possessing the quality which I may call "human warmth" - in French "chaleur humaine". The French writer and philosopher Albert Camus said that "what humans need, is human warmth (chaleur humaine)". And Herman Winick has so much human warmth! I can testify this and it comes out from the two short examples above!
Herman's fabulous personality impressed me so much that I am convinced that the whole our world exists only because there are a very few persons making things going on! And certainly Herman Winick is one of them!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, HERMAN! Thank you all for allowing me to transmit this letter!
Silviu Axinescu
Former Senior Scientist at the Institute of Atomic Physics, Bucharest, Romania and Head of cyclic electron accelerators group
I am Silviu Axinescu, former Senior Scientist at the Institute of Atomic Physics, Bucharest, Romania, with the main field of interest in cyclic electron accelerators.
Thank you very much for the kind invitation to attend the Symposium to Honor Herman Winick on his 80th Birthday!
Unfortunately, I am not able to come, due to a lot of reasons, the most important being the very large distance from Bucharest, Romania where I live, to Stanford, CA. However, I am kindly asking you to pass the following short letter to the participants and to Herman himself.
I have no doubts that Herman's extraordinary scientific achievements were pointed out during the Symposium. However, I would like to tell you several words about Herman Winick, the man!
He is a very special person which is ready always to help in all possible directions. In early nineties, a project for a low - energy synchrotron radiation source (SRS) in Romania was considered. Herman helped us with a lot of information and put us in contact with other synchrotron radiation groups, trying to facilitate the possible building of a Romanian SRS. It is of no relevance the fact that in the end it was not possible to build the proposed SRS in Romania.
Herman Winick strongly intervened in a case of violation of human rights in Romania, when the right to travel was denied to a Romanian scientist. The fact that this scientist was just me has no importance!
Herman is among the very few persons possessing the quality which I may call "human warmth" - in French "chaleur humaine". The French writer and philosopher Albert Camus said that "what humans need, is human warmth (chaleur humaine)". And Herman Winick has so much human warmth! I can testify this and it comes out from the two short examples above!
Herman's fabulous personality impressed me so much that I am convinced that the whole our world exists only because there are a very few persons making things going on! And certainly Herman Winick is one of them!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, HERMAN! Thank you all for allowing me to transmit this letter!
Silviu Axinescu
Former Senior Scientist at the Institute of Atomic Physics, Bucharest, Romania and Head of cyclic electron accelerators group
Robert Bachrach, The Confluence of Our Lives
I want to take this opportunity to thank Herman and Renee for their friendship over the 40 years since we arrived within a few weeks of each other at SSRP in 1973. I also want happy to join the celebration of Herman's contributions to Science, Technology, and Humanity and recognize Renee for her artistic accomplishments.
I am going to talk briefly about the confluence of our lives.
I started graduate school in 1964 and I had become interested in the possibility of X-Ray Lasers but was discouraged from pursing these ideas by the Prof.'s who knew that such power densities would never be possible. I then joined Prof. Fred Brown group in 1965 on his return from sabbatical in England. Fred's research focused on Alkali and Silver Halides and his research interest shifted from transport to far UV spectroscopy.
At that time Fred started a research program at Tantalus in Madison Wisconsin.He became a champion of developing synchrotron radiation sources. Fred was chairman of the Solid State Panel of The National Academy of Sciences charged with evaluating the utility of synchrotron radiation for condensed matter research. The report was issued in March 1966 and eventually provided the National consensus that led to the eventual funding and formation of SSRP. These events set the stage for the confluence of our lives. Fred was a Harvard classmate of George Pake who was the founding Director of Xerox PARC. Xerox contributed $1M to funding the soft X-ray beamline at SSRP under Fred's direction. Fred asked me to join him. Since I was interested in X-ray's, I left Bell Labs where I had worked for four years working on optical spectroscopy of LED and Laser materials.
I entered into one of the most intense years of my life as we raced to get SSRP operating before the 1974 SLAC shutdown. This was the space shot effort that Seb urged on. We were launching the future.
I know that Herman and his talented team was instrumental in the success for all of our efforts in that year in bringing the equipment and installations to fruition. You have heard today how Herman has and still continues these pursuits.
In spite of the PSI particle operation of SPEAR at 1ma, many groups were able to complete pioneering soft X-ray science with a long list of firsts. Our work enabled our groups work and those of many othersIn the '80's I collaborated with Herman and others on building a SPEAR soft-X-Ray multi Undulator using Halbach magnetic arrays. Herman and I also collaborated to get Efim Gluskin resettled in the US which resulted in the leadership he was able to provide at APS. Herman always brought passion and enthusiasm for the projects in which he engaged.
From time to time we would discuss Sesame which is symbolic of the doors which Herman has opened and continues to seek to open. In the coming decades I look forward to learning of the new bridges Herman has encouraged be built.
Robert Bachrach, PhD
I want to take this opportunity to thank Herman and Renee for their friendship over the 40 years since we arrived within a few weeks of each other at SSRP in 1973. I also want happy to join the celebration of Herman's contributions to Science, Technology, and Humanity and recognize Renee for her artistic accomplishments.
I am going to talk briefly about the confluence of our lives.
I started graduate school in 1964 and I had become interested in the possibility of X-Ray Lasers but was discouraged from pursing these ideas by the Prof.'s who knew that such power densities would never be possible. I then joined Prof. Fred Brown group in 1965 on his return from sabbatical in England. Fred's research focused on Alkali and Silver Halides and his research interest shifted from transport to far UV spectroscopy.
At that time Fred started a research program at Tantalus in Madison Wisconsin.He became a champion of developing synchrotron radiation sources. Fred was chairman of the Solid State Panel of The National Academy of Sciences charged with evaluating the utility of synchrotron radiation for condensed matter research. The report was issued in March 1966 and eventually provided the National consensus that led to the eventual funding and formation of SSRP. These events set the stage for the confluence of our lives. Fred was a Harvard classmate of George Pake who was the founding Director of Xerox PARC. Xerox contributed $1M to funding the soft X-ray beamline at SSRP under Fred's direction. Fred asked me to join him. Since I was interested in X-ray's, I left Bell Labs where I had worked for four years working on optical spectroscopy of LED and Laser materials.
I entered into one of the most intense years of my life as we raced to get SSRP operating before the 1974 SLAC shutdown. This was the space shot effort that Seb urged on. We were launching the future.
I know that Herman and his talented team was instrumental in the success for all of our efforts in that year in bringing the equipment and installations to fruition. You have heard today how Herman has and still continues these pursuits.
In spite of the PSI particle operation of SPEAR at 1ma, many groups were able to complete pioneering soft X-ray science with a long list of firsts. Our work enabled our groups work and those of many othersIn the '80's I collaborated with Herman and others on building a SPEAR soft-X-Ray multi Undulator using Halbach magnetic arrays. Herman and I also collaborated to get Efim Gluskin resettled in the US which resulted in the leadership he was able to provide at APS. Herman always brought passion and enthusiasm for the projects in which he engaged.
From time to time we would discuss Sesame which is symbolic of the doors which Herman has opened and continues to seek to open. In the coming decades I look forward to learning of the new bridges Herman has encouraged be built.
Robert Bachrach, PhD
On the Celebration of the 80th Birthday of Herman Winick
Dear Herman: I am sorry not to be with you during this joyous celebration of your 80th Birthday.
I wish you all the very best in the years to come. And especially I look forward to us working together on the issues of defending and protecting the Human Rights of our fellow scientists. Your tirelss work in support of Hadi Hadizeydah and for the creation of the SESAME project has been, and is, a model and inspiration all around the world. Thank you Herman and keep up the great work!
Yours, Joe Birman
Joseph L Birman
(Distinguished Professor of Physics
City College and City University of New York)
Dear Herman: I am sorry not to be with you during this joyous celebration of your 80th Birthday.
I wish you all the very best in the years to come. And especially I look forward to us working together on the issues of defending and protecting the Human Rights of our fellow scientists. Your tirelss work in support of Hadi Hadizeydah and for the creation of the SESAME project has been, and is, a model and inspiration all around the world. Thank you Herman and keep up the great work!
Yours, Joe Birman
Joseph L Birman
(Distinguished Professor of Physics
City College and City University of New York)
I will not be able to attend but would like to make a comment:
"In the age when many science organizations are engaged in cheerleading international activities that accomplish nothing, Herman's effort that led to SESAME stands out as a unique accomplishment unmatched by any other physicist in recent history."
Eugene Chudnovsky, CUNY Distinguished Professor of Physics Member-at-Large of the APS Forum on International Physics Co-Chair of the Committee of Concerned Scientists Former chair of CIFS-APS Former Chair of the NYAS Human Rights Committee
"In the age when many science organizations are engaged in cheerleading international activities that accomplish nothing, Herman's effort that led to SESAME stands out as a unique accomplishment unmatched by any other physicist in recent history."
Eugene Chudnovsky, CUNY Distinguished Professor of Physics Member-at-Large of the APS Forum on International Physics Co-Chair of the Committee of Concerned Scientists Former chair of CIFS-APS Former Chair of the NYAS Human Rights Committee
Dear Piero,
Thank you for your e-mail informing me about the symposium on Herman's 80-th birthday. I shall not be able to participate, but I am glad to say something on this occasion. I am grateful to Herman as he has introduced me to the world of synchrotron radiation.
We had an exchange of letters (yes, at that time no e-mails, it was the late '70s), and then by chance we met in Parma and we discussed some ideas I had been working on (on my own), and he encouraged me and invited me to Frascati, where I began to meet people, in particular Albert Hofmann, with whom later I collaborated at CERN in the first observation of SR from protons (a great satisfaction for me, also because several important people were convinced that i was wrong, and my first paper suggesting this possibility was rejected by a journal). Then there was the European Synchrotron Radiation Project, another interesting experience that allowed me to know many people, in the (then) relatively small world of SR. Then the period I spent, by Herman's invitation, at SSRL in 1986 was exciting for many exchanges of ideas, the first X-ray undulator observation, the beginning of short-wavelength FEL projects etc..
Later (the '90s) I concentrated on the spatial coherence properties of SR, with some experiments at ESRF, and worked later on other subjects, as interferometry with incoherent light (in particular with optical fibres), basic electromagnetism, computational physics, and recently I spent four years in China, mainly promoting international collaborations in all fields of science.
Now I have just retired from teaching at Parma University but continue my interest in research in physics and particularly in optics.
I have always admired Herman's energy, initiative and organization capacity. And I am sure he is still active at 80. I send my best wishes to him and to all colleagues I had the pleasure to work with at SSRL.
Ciao, Roberto Coisson
Thank you for your e-mail informing me about the symposium on Herman's 80-th birthday. I shall not be able to participate, but I am glad to say something on this occasion. I am grateful to Herman as he has introduced me to the world of synchrotron radiation.
We had an exchange of letters (yes, at that time no e-mails, it was the late '70s), and then by chance we met in Parma and we discussed some ideas I had been working on (on my own), and he encouraged me and invited me to Frascati, where I began to meet people, in particular Albert Hofmann, with whom later I collaborated at CERN in the first observation of SR from protons (a great satisfaction for me, also because several important people were convinced that i was wrong, and my first paper suggesting this possibility was rejected by a journal). Then there was the European Synchrotron Radiation Project, another interesting experience that allowed me to know many people, in the (then) relatively small world of SR. Then the period I spent, by Herman's invitation, at SSRL in 1986 was exciting for many exchanges of ideas, the first X-ray undulator observation, the beginning of short-wavelength FEL projects etc..
Later (the '90s) I concentrated on the spatial coherence properties of SR, with some experiments at ESRF, and worked later on other subjects, as interferometry with incoherent light (in particular with optical fibres), basic electromagnetism, computational physics, and recently I spent four years in China, mainly promoting international collaborations in all fields of science.
Now I have just retired from teaching at Parma University but continue my interest in research in physics and particularly in optics.
I have always admired Herman's energy, initiative and organization capacity. And I am sure he is still active at 80. I send my best wishes to him and to all colleagues I had the pleasure to work with at SSRL.
Ciao, Roberto Coisson
Dear Herman,
This is very good news.I am very pleased you will have a symposium, it is very appropriate. I send my apologies, but I will be there in spirit.
Your SA colleagues, on behalf of our Synchrotron community, will send a note that can be read out in your honor. I do trust we will reach your and our dream of an opening ceremony of the future African Light Source which you will attend.
Best regards ~ Simon Connell
This is very good news.I am very pleased you will have a symposium, it is very appropriate. I send my apologies, but I will be there in spirit.
Your SA colleagues, on behalf of our Synchrotron community, will send a note that can be read out in your honor. I do trust we will reach your and our dream of an opening ceremony of the future African Light Source which you will attend.
Best regards ~ Simon Connell
Dear Herman,
My heartfelt congratulations on this great day, your 80th birthday. Regrettably, I will not be able to participate in your symposium in the body, but I will certainly be there in spirit.
I am sure that I speak for the whole community of Israeli synchrotron users (which now includes two Nobel Laureates: Ada Yonath and Danny Schechtman) in thanking you for your indispensable contribution to the SESAME project, for the wisdom, efforts, and hard work you invested in starting all of us (some had to be dragged by their ears !) on this project. This idea, which looked so preposterously unimaginable at the outset has become a living and flourishing entity, an island of peace, collaboration and science in a part of the world where these are rare to nonexistence.
We are still not there, but we are well under way, thanks to your vision and enthusiasm, shared with very few colleagues. The biblical Moses was exactly your age when he led the children of Israel out of slavery. It took him 40 years to guide them through the desert into the promised land, at a point not far from the present site of SESAME. I am sure that with your continuing help, encouragement, and sometimes prodding, first beam at SESAME will be achieved in a much shorter time !
With my warmest congratulations and best wishes,Moshe Deutsch
Former Chair, National Synchrotron Radiation Committee, Israel Academy of Sciences
Former Council Member for Israel, SESAME
My heartfelt congratulations on this great day, your 80th birthday. Regrettably, I will not be able to participate in your symposium in the body, but I will certainly be there in spirit.
I am sure that I speak for the whole community of Israeli synchrotron users (which now includes two Nobel Laureates: Ada Yonath and Danny Schechtman) in thanking you for your indispensable contribution to the SESAME project, for the wisdom, efforts, and hard work you invested in starting all of us (some had to be dragged by their ears !) on this project. This idea, which looked so preposterously unimaginable at the outset has become a living and flourishing entity, an island of peace, collaboration and science in a part of the world where these are rare to nonexistence.
We are still not there, but we are well under way, thanks to your vision and enthusiasm, shared with very few colleagues. The biblical Moses was exactly your age when he led the children of Israel out of slavery. It took him 40 years to guide them through the desert into the promised land, at a point not far from the present site of SESAME. I am sure that with your continuing help, encouragement, and sometimes prodding, first beam at SESAME will be achieved in a much shorter time !
With my warmest congratulations and best wishes,Moshe Deutsch
Former Chair, National Synchrotron Radiation Committee, Israel Academy of Sciences
Former Council Member for Israel, SESAME
Dear Colleague,
The enclosed text is self-explanatory and unfortunately late, but I would appreciate having it directed to the proper destination. With anticipated thanks, Mircea Fotino
I regret very much not being in a position to join those colleagues and collaborators extolling Herman's efforts and dedication to the expansion and diversification of synchrotron radiation. I am travelling overseas at this time and thus in no position to offer a significant contribution. More to the point, my involvement with synchrotron radiation has been wholly altered since leaving the Cambridge Electron Accelerator and specializing in biological high-voltage electron microscopy. However, I continue to assign it a central place in my course on physical methods in biology at the University of Colorado.
Furthermore, through my own background and experience and in some ways having certain similarities with his own , my association with Herman his steadfast interest and effectiveness in supporting and seeking the alleviation of the condition of persecuted and dissenting physicists in countries with oppressive political regimes.
The enclosed text is self-explanatory and unfortunately late, but I would appreciate having it directed to the proper destination. With anticipated thanks, Mircea Fotino
I regret very much not being in a position to join those colleagues and collaborators extolling Herman's efforts and dedication to the expansion and diversification of synchrotron radiation. I am travelling overseas at this time and thus in no position to offer a significant contribution. More to the point, my involvement with synchrotron radiation has been wholly altered since leaving the Cambridge Electron Accelerator and specializing in biological high-voltage electron microscopy. However, I continue to assign it a central place in my course on physical methods in biology at the University of Colorado.
Furthermore, through my own background and experience and in some ways having certain similarities with his own , my association with Herman his steadfast interest and effectiveness in supporting and seeking the alleviation of the condition of persecuted and dissenting physicists in countries with oppressive political regimes.
Piero - thanks for this invitation, and unfortunately I will be at KEK that day. I wish I were here.
I will send you some words for Herman, who has been a wonderful mentor and colleague for me.
John Fox
I will send you some words for Herman, who has been a wonderful mentor and colleague for me.
John Fox
Dear Piero,
Nice to hear from you! Nice to see that I am still on your mailing list! I would love to come to the event, but my finances do not allow me to book the flight to SF. So I am with you in my thoughts and send my best wishes to this wonderful event.
Kind regards,Andreas Freund
Nice to hear from you! Nice to see that I am still on your mailing list! I would love to come to the event, but my finances do not allow me to book the flight to SF. So I am with you in my thoughts and send my best wishes to this wonderful event.
Kind regards,Andreas Freund
Dear Piero,
Thank you very much for the invitation. And thanks to the organizing committee for this fete. I regret that I am unable to be there. Please send Herman my very best wishes and tribute to his great accomplishments in science and in scientific diplomacy.
I will try to send him a separate message - can you share his actual birthday date?
Thanks,Alice Gast
Thank you very much for the invitation. And thanks to the organizing committee for this fete. I regret that I am unable to be there. Please send Herman my very best wishes and tribute to his great accomplishments in science and in scientific diplomacy.
I will try to send him a separate message - can you share his actual birthday date?
Thanks,Alice Gast
From Edward Gerjuoy, Long-time Human Rights Activist, Chair CIFS in 2004
Thank you very much for enabling me to honor Herman at this celebration, which alas I am unable to attend. (He is 94 years old; was J. Robert Openheimer's last student.) Herman's reputation as an effective articulate opponent of human rights violations anywhere in the world--a reputation that has earned him many awards --is well deserved. I emphasize, moreover, that my interactions with him have always have found him to be an intelligent and cooperative colleague, who did not take himself overly seriously. The pleasure I have taken in his company is reflected in the pleasure I am finding in writing these words.
Thank you very much for enabling me to honor Herman at this celebration, which alas I am unable to attend. (He is 94 years old; was J. Robert Openheimer's last student.) Herman's reputation as an effective articulate opponent of human rights violations anywhere in the world--a reputation that has earned him many awards --is well deserved. I emphasize, moreover, that my interactions with him have always have found him to be an intelligent and cooperative colleague, who did not take himself overly seriously. The pleasure I have taken in his company is reflected in the pleasure I am finding in writing these words.
Dear Herman,
The program of your "Herman Fest" is very impressive. I regret much that I am unable to attend it. I would have liked to listen to the talks and the following discussions.
Above all, I would like to thank you for your friendship which lasted now many years and bridged large distances. You are the person I can always ask for advice or help, in physics or personal matter. I was often glad to be able to talk to you when I had to make a difficult decision. This was a big help.
The program of your "Fest" covers much of your merits and achievements in science, organization as well as human relations. I would like to concentrate here one of your abilities which impressed me often. You have a very good and sound judgment of the merits and possibilities of scientific and technical ideas at an early stage when most people only begin to understand them. To give a few examples; the possibility of synchrotron radiation at CEA, the feed-back system to stabilize the beam position at the user, the crossed undulator, the potentials of wigglers and undulators at SPEAR and many other machines, the optical klystron buried in the paper by K. Robinson, the use of Bessy in the Middle East, the x-ray FEL and many more. In all these cases you not only participated in the creation of the idea or were one of the first to grab its value, but you also encouraged the people involved to follow up on it and you provided them with help and support.
I am of course interested to hear of your future ideas, Albert Hoffman
The program of your "Herman Fest" is very impressive. I regret much that I am unable to attend it. I would have liked to listen to the talks and the following discussions.
Above all, I would like to thank you for your friendship which lasted now many years and bridged large distances. You are the person I can always ask for advice or help, in physics or personal matter. I was often glad to be able to talk to you when I had to make a difficult decision. This was a big help.
The program of your "Fest" covers much of your merits and achievements in science, organization as well as human relations. I would like to concentrate here one of your abilities which impressed me often. You have a very good and sound judgment of the merits and possibilities of scientific and technical ideas at an early stage when most people only begin to understand them. To give a few examples; the possibility of synchrotron radiation at CEA, the feed-back system to stabilize the beam position at the user, the crossed undulator, the potentials of wigglers and undulators at SPEAR and many other machines, the optical klystron buried in the paper by K. Robinson, the use of Bessy in the Middle East, the x-ray FEL and many more. In all these cases you not only participated in the creation of the idea or were one of the first to grab its value, but you also encouraged the people involved to follow up on it and you provided them with help and support.
I am of course interested to hear of your future ideas, Albert Hoffman
Tony Joel of South Africa,
I first met Herman Winick one Sunday morning late in 2003 at the Emporer's Palace Hotel at the Johannesburg International Airport. I had just recently started to agitate for the launching of a feasibility study into a possible synchrotron light source for South Africa, and Herman had contacted me (via that most wonderful of inventions, e-mail) and introduced himself, telling me about his involvement in the establishment of the Sesame Light Source in Jordan and other such ventures in developing regions. He offered me his assistance in my endeavours. Realizing that Herman was indeed one of the "big guns" in synchrotron research, I gladly and gratefully accepted his kind offer. He would be in South Africa for a conference in Cape Town and we could meet at his overnight hotel in Johannesburg where he would be waiting for his connecting flight back home. I called on him that Sunday morning, and met his wife who was accompanying him, and we spent an enjoyable hour discussing light sources, their applications and their benefits as catalysts for development in developing countries. I found the meeting highly invigorating and left newly inspired.
Herman kept his word and some six months later, at the time of his 72nd birthday, came to South Africa to attend the 2004 South African Institute of Physics Annual Conference, which that year was being held at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein. I had prepared a selection of posters and gave a talk to promote the idea of a South African synchrotron. Herman also delivered a talk, a much better one, of course, coming as it was, "straight from the horse's mouth". He mingled with the delegates at the Conference, and actively promoted the light source concept. I recall one evening when he and I gave a talk and "slide" show on synchrotron light, both celestial and man-made, to a large group of school students at the astronomical observatory outside Bloemfontein. He had even come to Johannesburg a few days before the Conference to help me by giving talks at the Physics Department of the University of the Witwatersrand, and at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in Pretoria. I was astounded at the man's energy. He spent the evening of his 72nd birthday with me and my family at our house just south of Pretoria, where he was treated to a South African traditional dinner of lamb stew, with "koeksisters" for dessert. I wonder if he still has the menu that my daughter made for the occasion. We found him to be a fascinating raconteur and I believe a truly pleasant evening was had by all. On the occasion he gave me a bottle of excellent vodka which has long since been dealt with.
Herman came to South Africa on several subsequent occasions, participating in conferences and schools, to support the promotion of the use of light sources by South African scientists and the eventual construction of an own facility in South Africa. An officially-recognised synchrotron committee has come into existence here, and I believe that Herman was, through his efforts, involvement and interest, significantly instrumental in bringing this about. His latest contribution to what I like to call the "South African Synchrotron Initiative", or "SASI", was when he attended a government-sponsored planning workshop in Irene, near Pretoria, in December last year, 2011. Again, he provided important input to the discussions. Herman is highly regarded in light source circles here in South Africa. May he long be with us to give us the benefit of his energy and knowledge.
I first met Herman Winick one Sunday morning late in 2003 at the Emporer's Palace Hotel at the Johannesburg International Airport. I had just recently started to agitate for the launching of a feasibility study into a possible synchrotron light source for South Africa, and Herman had contacted me (via that most wonderful of inventions, e-mail) and introduced himself, telling me about his involvement in the establishment of the Sesame Light Source in Jordan and other such ventures in developing regions. He offered me his assistance in my endeavours. Realizing that Herman was indeed one of the "big guns" in synchrotron research, I gladly and gratefully accepted his kind offer. He would be in South Africa for a conference in Cape Town and we could meet at his overnight hotel in Johannesburg where he would be waiting for his connecting flight back home. I called on him that Sunday morning, and met his wife who was accompanying him, and we spent an enjoyable hour discussing light sources, their applications and their benefits as catalysts for development in developing countries. I found the meeting highly invigorating and left newly inspired.
Herman kept his word and some six months later, at the time of his 72nd birthday, came to South Africa to attend the 2004 South African Institute of Physics Annual Conference, which that year was being held at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein. I had prepared a selection of posters and gave a talk to promote the idea of a South African synchrotron. Herman also delivered a talk, a much better one, of course, coming as it was, "straight from the horse's mouth". He mingled with the delegates at the Conference, and actively promoted the light source concept. I recall one evening when he and I gave a talk and "slide" show on synchrotron light, both celestial and man-made, to a large group of school students at the astronomical observatory outside Bloemfontein. He had even come to Johannesburg a few days before the Conference to help me by giving talks at the Physics Department of the University of the Witwatersrand, and at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in Pretoria. I was astounded at the man's energy. He spent the evening of his 72nd birthday with me and my family at our house just south of Pretoria, where he was treated to a South African traditional dinner of lamb stew, with "koeksisters" for dessert. I wonder if he still has the menu that my daughter made for the occasion. We found him to be a fascinating raconteur and I believe a truly pleasant evening was had by all. On the occasion he gave me a bottle of excellent vodka which has long since been dealt with.
Herman came to South Africa on several subsequent occasions, participating in conferences and schools, to support the promotion of the use of light sources by South African scientists and the eventual construction of an own facility in South Africa. An officially-recognised synchrotron committee has come into existence here, and I believe that Herman was, through his efforts, involvement and interest, significantly instrumental in bringing this about. His latest contribution to what I like to call the "South African Synchrotron Initiative", or "SASI", was when he attended a government-sponsored planning workshop in Irene, near Pretoria, in December last year, 2011. Again, he provided important input to the discussions. Herman is highly regarded in light source circles here in South Africa. May he long be with us to give us the benefit of his energy and knowledge.
Dear Piero,
Unfortunately I will be unable to attend, as I have an unavoidable conflict in my schedule. I look forward to wishing Herman well when I next see him.
Sincerely,Kate Kirby
Exec. Officer, APS
Unfortunately I will be unable to attend, as I have an unavoidable conflict in my schedule. I look forward to wishing Herman well when I next see him.
Sincerely,Kate Kirby
Exec. Officer, APS
Dear Piero,
I wish I could be at the Herman-fest. Unfortunately I am committed to help host Helmut Dosch's visit to Berkeley that day. Here is my note to help celebrate Herman:
Dear Herman,
While I will not be able to be at the festivities in honor of your 80th birthday in person, I will be definitely there in spirit.
I did not know you during the time we both did what was then called high energy physics. It was in 1977 when I was planning a sabbatical at Stanford. I was going to work on DELCO at SPEAR, but I also wanted to learn about synchrotron radiation. (I was getting interested in X-ray optics, and NSLS was being built at BNL). I asked my host and grad school classmate Stan Wojcicki about the best way. He mentioned that there is this guy living on his street. He was the one to introduce us. You very graciously took me under your wings, and by the summer of 1979 I had an approved proposal and a grad student by the name of Harvey Rarback. You assigned a young postdoc by the name of Piero Pianetta to help us novices, and he went out of his way to make sure that we had a great experience - that was the start of our career in x-ray microscopy.
I also have great memories of the trip to Debrecen 20 years ago with you, Rene' and Gina.
I admire your continued efforts on behalf of SESAME, and wish you continued success and robust good health.
Happy Birthday, Herman! Janos
I wish I could be at the Herman-fest. Unfortunately I am committed to help host Helmut Dosch's visit to Berkeley that day. Here is my note to help celebrate Herman:
Dear Herman,
While I will not be able to be at the festivities in honor of your 80th birthday in person, I will be definitely there in spirit.
I did not know you during the time we both did what was then called high energy physics. It was in 1977 when I was planning a sabbatical at Stanford. I was going to work on DELCO at SPEAR, but I also wanted to learn about synchrotron radiation. (I was getting interested in X-ray optics, and NSLS was being built at BNL). I asked my host and grad school classmate Stan Wojcicki about the best way. He mentioned that there is this guy living on his street. He was the one to introduce us. You very graciously took me under your wings, and by the summer of 1979 I had an approved proposal and a grad student by the name of Harvey Rarback. You assigned a young postdoc by the name of Piero Pianetta to help us novices, and he went out of his way to make sure that we had a great experience - that was the start of our career in x-ray microscopy.
I also have great memories of the trip to Debrecen 20 years ago with you, Rene' and Gina.
I admire your continued efforts on behalf of SESAME, and wish you continued success and robust good health.
Happy Birthday, Herman! Janos
Dear Piero,
I probably do not have to say much about the contribution of Herman in accelerator physics, compared to many others. For me, Herman has been that who welcomed me as (maybe) the first post-doc at SSRP (with also Seb), helped me to settle in Palo Alto and contributed much with Renée to make for us this stay unforgettable. He probably will remember that he lent us a trailer and a camping stuff, and we could visit then most of California. So he is the image of a man: generous, fighting spirit, 95% of his time in good mood.
You probably remember that because of the 'psi' discovery the beamtime for SR was very short in '74, and often we were only 2 or 3 people in the lab, and we had these times many lunches together. Without him I would have been alone all day!
I feel sorry not to be at SSRL for this meeting. The idea is great.
Best regards Piero, Pierre Lagarde
I probably do not have to say much about the contribution of Herman in accelerator physics, compared to many others. For me, Herman has been that who welcomed me as (maybe) the first post-doc at SSRP (with also Seb), helped me to settle in Palo Alto and contributed much with Renée to make for us this stay unforgettable. He probably will remember that he lent us a trailer and a camping stuff, and we could visit then most of California. So he is the image of a man: generous, fighting spirit, 95% of his time in good mood.
You probably remember that because of the 'psi' discovery the beamtime for SR was very short in '74, and often we were only 2 or 3 people in the lab, and we had these times many lunches together. Without him I would have been alone all day!
I feel sorry not to be at SSRL for this meeting. The idea is great.
Best regards Piero, Pierre Lagarde
Dear Herman,
I am so sorry that I cannot be with you in this momentous occasion, celebrating your 80th birthday. I will be on a lecture tour in Argentina, but my thoughts will be with you at Stanford.
As you know, the element that has the atomic number 80 is a very important element. It is Mercury. The periodic table is now extended to 118 elements, and so long will be your productive life.
I don't know of anybody else who shares with me the same values, beliefs, actions, vision, and passion as you do. We met many years ago working on human rights, you representing the physicists (who were always more active than the chemists on this issue) and I representing the chemists. We were united by our desire to bring to freedom to people from countries with oppressive regimes, people whom we never met and had never communicated with before, but we knew that they were imprisoned for standing up for values which you and I shared. We became family when we worked together for our colleague in Iran, Hadi Hadizedeh. You guaranteed his arrival to the U.S. and I worked on helping him and his family in the U.S.
For us, achieving peace in the Middle East was another human rights issue. We felt that we cannot allow the situation to continue with innocent people being killed. Independently, we came to the conclusion that scientists could do what politicians failed to do. You devoted your time to the SESAME project in Jordan, which brings together scientists from Middle Eastern countries to help build the Synchrotron and I devoted my time to the Malta Conferences Foundation, which also brings together scientists from 15 Middle Eastern countries to solve regional problems. These two projects represent a small light at the end of a very long, dark tunnel - but a light nonetheless.
I was extremely happy when I shared with you the New York Academy of Sciences Heinz R. Pagels Human Rights of Scientists Award. I could not think of anyone else whom I would have rather shared this award with.
Your contribution to making planet earth a better place for human kind is second to none. I know that you will continue your hard work for many years to come.
Happy birthday and many returns.
Yom Huledet Sameach.
Shalom, Zafra
I am so sorry that I cannot be with you in this momentous occasion, celebrating your 80th birthday. I will be on a lecture tour in Argentina, but my thoughts will be with you at Stanford.
As you know, the element that has the atomic number 80 is a very important element. It is Mercury. The periodic table is now extended to 118 elements, and so long will be your productive life.
I don't know of anybody else who shares with me the same values, beliefs, actions, vision, and passion as you do. We met many years ago working on human rights, you representing the physicists (who were always more active than the chemists on this issue) and I representing the chemists. We were united by our desire to bring to freedom to people from countries with oppressive regimes, people whom we never met and had never communicated with before, but we knew that they were imprisoned for standing up for values which you and I shared. We became family when we worked together for our colleague in Iran, Hadi Hadizedeh. You guaranteed his arrival to the U.S. and I worked on helping him and his family in the U.S.
For us, achieving peace in the Middle East was another human rights issue. We felt that we cannot allow the situation to continue with innocent people being killed. Independently, we came to the conclusion that scientists could do what politicians failed to do. You devoted your time to the SESAME project in Jordan, which brings together scientists from Middle Eastern countries to help build the Synchrotron and I devoted my time to the Malta Conferences Foundation, which also brings together scientists from 15 Middle Eastern countries to solve regional problems. These two projects represent a small light at the end of a very long, dark tunnel - but a light nonetheless.
I was extremely happy when I shared with you the New York Academy of Sciences Heinz R. Pagels Human Rights of Scientists Award. I could not think of anyone else whom I would have rather shared this award with.
Your contribution to making planet earth a better place for human kind is second to none. I know that you will continue your hard work for many years to come.
Happy birthday and many returns.
Yom Huledet Sameach.
Shalom, Zafra
Message for the Symposium:
I congratulate Herman on his 80th birthday, and write to thank him on behalf of all those associated with SESAME for his major contributions to the project. The suggestion he made with Gus Voss that, following its closure, the old Berlin Synchrotron (BESSY 1) might be moved and rebuilt in the Middle East was key to setting in motion steps that are bringing to fruition hopes of seeing a synchrotron-light source built in the region, and of bringing together scientists from different cultural and religious traditions to pursue a common goal, and hence help create better understanding in the Middle East and neighbouring countries.
Not only did Herman set things in motion, but he has contributed enormously to the project, as a founding (and still very active) Member of the Beamlines Advisory Committee and a participant in SESAME Council meetings. He has also worked tirelessly to promote SESAME in the USA and round the world. SESAME is now well on track to successful completion, thanks in no small measure to Herman's efforts.
I personally have benefited a great deal from Herman's insights, and found his infectious enthusiasm for SESAME a source of inspiration. Herman - I am really sorry that I cannot be with you today, but send sincere thanks for your contributions to SESAME and warmest best wishes for the future. Professor Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith FRS, PRESIDENT SESAME COUNCIL
I congratulate Herman on his 80th birthday, and write to thank him on behalf of all those associated with SESAME for his major contributions to the project. The suggestion he made with Gus Voss that, following its closure, the old Berlin Synchrotron (BESSY 1) might be moved and rebuilt in the Middle East was key to setting in motion steps that are bringing to fruition hopes of seeing a synchrotron-light source built in the region, and of bringing together scientists from different cultural and religious traditions to pursue a common goal, and hence help create better understanding in the Middle East and neighbouring countries.
Not only did Herman set things in motion, but he has contributed enormously to the project, as a founding (and still very active) Member of the Beamlines Advisory Committee and a participant in SESAME Council meetings. He has also worked tirelessly to promote SESAME in the USA and round the world. SESAME is now well on track to successful completion, thanks in no small measure to Herman's efforts.
I personally have benefited a great deal from Herman's insights, and found his infectious enthusiasm for SESAME a source of inspiration. Herman - I am really sorry that I cannot be with you today, but send sincere thanks for your contributions to SESAME and warmest best wishes for the future. Professor Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith FRS, PRESIDENT SESAME COUNCIL
A few words about my friend Herman Winick for his 80th Birthday
Giorgio Margaritondo
While presenting to Herman my very best wishes, I would like to say a few words on three points about our very long relation, two serious ones and the last on a lighter side.
My first remark is that Herman is the model - and a most prominent member - of an entirely new class of international scientists: the light source specialists. We saw this class slowly born in the 1960s and 1970s, as a consequence of the fantastic growth of synchrotron light research and of the corresponding, increasing technical challenges.
The part-time commitment of scientists attached to traditional academic structures was no longer sufficient. A new class of very competent colleagues emerged, with full dedication to the new tasks. Herman was a world pioneer in this process.
Having lived and operated between this new class and traditional academia, I am convinced that we have not done enough to recognize the merits of outstanding experts like Herman. Our colleagues in elementary particle physics deal much better with the corresponding issues. We should do a lot more, also because the class inaugurated by Herman and a few others now includes thousands of excellent scientists.
So, let this birthday be an opportunity to give him a well-deserved "Thank you". My second point is the fact that Herman is a real gentleman, with a generous character that is not sufficiently known (because of his modesty). I refer in particular to what he did for the Wisconsin Synchrotron Radiation Center (SRC). Contrary to a popular misunderstanding, the relations between SRC and Stanford were very constructive and friendly. But Herman went beyond that.
He transfered - as a long-term loan that was actually a gift - one of the early undulators from SSRL to SRC. This was the first user undulator at SRC. It allowed a lot of good science and, in particular, the development of scanning spectromicroscopy under the leadership of Franco Cerrina.
With this fantastic act of generosity (and no counterpart whatsoever), Herman demonstrated his commitment to the development of synchrotron science without regional boundaries - a commitment that fully bloomed in later years with his personal interest in many projects abroad, including emerging countries. The generosity of his character thus evolved into a strong humanitarian commitment beyond national barriers.
My "light" point is the fact that synchrotron research creates many opportunities for traveling, and in particular gave me many chances to travel with Herman. I always enjoyed them since Herman shares with me broad interests, a spirit of adventure and a passion for exotic shopping. I remember when, during an event in Debrecen, Hungary, we found an interesting antique dealer, where we both purchased religious icons. But then I discovered that my wife did not like icons to display in our home. So, I decided to give mine as a present to friend in Moscow. Not finding information about importations of this kind, I ended up illegally smuggling an icon into Russia. So, Herman was partly the instigator of this rather unique feat.
Seriously, Herman, a big, big thank for all these years of friendship, and my very best personal wishes.
Giorgio Margaritondo
While presenting to Herman my very best wishes, I would like to say a few words on three points about our very long relation, two serious ones and the last on a lighter side.
My first remark is that Herman is the model - and a most prominent member - of an entirely new class of international scientists: the light source specialists. We saw this class slowly born in the 1960s and 1970s, as a consequence of the fantastic growth of synchrotron light research and of the corresponding, increasing technical challenges.
The part-time commitment of scientists attached to traditional academic structures was no longer sufficient. A new class of very competent colleagues emerged, with full dedication to the new tasks. Herman was a world pioneer in this process.
Having lived and operated between this new class and traditional academia, I am convinced that we have not done enough to recognize the merits of outstanding experts like Herman. Our colleagues in elementary particle physics deal much better with the corresponding issues. We should do a lot more, also because the class inaugurated by Herman and a few others now includes thousands of excellent scientists.
So, let this birthday be an opportunity to give him a well-deserved "Thank you". My second point is the fact that Herman is a real gentleman, with a generous character that is not sufficiently known (because of his modesty). I refer in particular to what he did for the Wisconsin Synchrotron Radiation Center (SRC). Contrary to a popular misunderstanding, the relations between SRC and Stanford were very constructive and friendly. But Herman went beyond that.
He transfered - as a long-term loan that was actually a gift - one of the early undulators from SSRL to SRC. This was the first user undulator at SRC. It allowed a lot of good science and, in particular, the development of scanning spectromicroscopy under the leadership of Franco Cerrina.
With this fantastic act of generosity (and no counterpart whatsoever), Herman demonstrated his commitment to the development of synchrotron science without regional boundaries - a commitment that fully bloomed in later years with his personal interest in many projects abroad, including emerging countries. The generosity of his character thus evolved into a strong humanitarian commitment beyond national barriers.
My "light" point is the fact that synchrotron research creates many opportunities for traveling, and in particular gave me many chances to travel with Herman. I always enjoyed them since Herman shares with me broad interests, a spirit of adventure and a passion for exotic shopping. I remember when, during an event in Debrecen, Hungary, we found an interesting antique dealer, where we both purchased religious icons. But then I discovered that my wife did not like icons to display in our home. So, I decided to give mine as a present to friend in Moscow. Not finding information about importations of this kind, I ended up illegally smuggling an icon into Russia. So, Herman was partly the instigator of this rather unique feat.
Seriously, Herman, a big, big thank for all these years of friendship, and my very best personal wishes.
Dear Piero and Robert (Wessling),
Please find below my short statement. Thank you so much for organizing this.
Best regards,Nadejda
I had the honor to meet Herman while designing the Stanford Human Rights Defenders Platform. His honest desire to assist those who face severe risks and are unable to exercise academic freedom because of their human rights stand is inspiring and motivating. Despite the difficulties that we faced, I will never forget Herman's flexible persistence. His conduct was not only a professional but a life lesson to me. Herman, I am sorry to miss the symposium in your honor for on this date I will be working in the DRC but I wanted to tell you that it has been a pleasure working with you and I thank you for all your help.
Best regards, Nadejda
Please find below my short statement. Thank you so much for organizing this.
Best regards,Nadejda
I had the honor to meet Herman while designing the Stanford Human Rights Defenders Platform. His honest desire to assist those who face severe risks and are unable to exercise academic freedom because of their human rights stand is inspiring and motivating. Despite the difficulties that we faced, I will never forget Herman's flexible persistence. His conduct was not only a professional but a life lesson to me. Herman, I am sorry to miss the symposium in your honor for on this date I will be working in the DRC but I wanted to tell you that it has been a pleasure working with you and I thank you for all your help.
Best regards, Nadejda
Dear Dr. Pianetta,
Thank you for the e-mail about the symposium in honor of Herman Winick's 80th birthday. I first met Herman in 1958 when he was on the staff of the Rochester cyclotron, and we have remained good friends ever since. I am sorry that I will not be able to attend but I would like to congratulate Herman for his many accomplishments, and to send my best wishes for the years ahead.
Sincerely, Adrian Melissinos
Thank you for the e-mail about the symposium in honor of Herman Winick's 80th birthday. I first met Herman in 1958 when he was on the staff of the Rochester cyclotron, and we have remained good friends ever since. I am sorry that I will not be able to attend but I would like to congratulate Herman for his many accomplishments, and to send my best wishes for the years ahead.
Sincerely, Adrian Melissinos
Dear Piero,
On my behalf please say A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY & CONGRATULATIONS to Herman from his old and good friend Ian Munro. We first met when Herman was working at the CEA in the 1960s!!
Thereafter with Herman's help I managed to set up and operate my own beamline on the roof of SPEAR (in the SEARS garden shack) Later in Sardinia for 3 weeks, then in Hefei, China and at many other meetings until Herman joined us in Manchester for the 25th birthday celebrations of the SRS--and gave me an award which is beside me as I send this to you.
Herman has been a fantastic Ambassador for Synchrotron Radiation. A highly charged energetic, and friendly 'mover and shaker 'for science around the world.
I would have given him a big Birthday Kiss!! But you haven't given me enough time to fix the trip to Stanford!!
Anyway, Here is a totally Scottish Toast for Herman on his birthday (recognized by true Scots everywhere)----
Here's tae us Wha's like us, damn few and they're a' died!
.... work it out!
Hope to see you again soon Herman,
Ian Munro
(Daresbury and Little Hill Farm)
On my behalf please say A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY & CONGRATULATIONS to Herman from his old and good friend Ian Munro. We first met when Herman was working at the CEA in the 1960s!!
Thereafter with Herman's help I managed to set up and operate my own beamline on the roof of SPEAR (in the SEARS garden shack) Later in Sardinia for 3 weeks, then in Hefei, China and at many other meetings until Herman joined us in Manchester for the 25th birthday celebrations of the SRS--and gave me an award which is beside me as I send this to you.
Herman has been a fantastic Ambassador for Synchrotron Radiation. A highly charged energetic, and friendly 'mover and shaker 'for science around the world.
I would have given him a big Birthday Kiss!! But you haven't given me enough time to fix the trip to Stanford!!
Anyway, Here is a totally Scottish Toast for Herman on his birthday (recognized by true Scots everywhere)----
Here's tae us Wha's like us, damn few and they're a' died!
.... work it out!
Hope to see you again soon Herman,
Ian Munro
(Daresbury and Little Hill Farm)
Dear Dr Pianetta,
With regard to the upcoming symposium in honor of Prof Winick's 80th birthday, Synchrotron Research Road Implementation Committee (SRRIC), on behalf of the South African synchrotron community would like to wish him a happy belated birth day and congratulate him on the occasion, see attachment. Although, physically, we will not be able to take make it for the occasion, we will be there with you in spirit.
Wishing you a fruitful and successful meeting on Tuesday,
Kind regards,Tshepo Ntsoane on behalf of the SRRIC
With regard to the upcoming symposium in honor of Prof Winick's 80th birthday, Synchrotron Research Road Implementation Committee (SRRIC), on behalf of the South African synchrotron community would like to wish him a happy belated birth day and congratulate him on the occasion, see attachment. Although, physically, we will not be able to take make it for the occasion, we will be there with you in spirit.
Wishing you a fruitful and successful meeting on Tuesday,
Kind regards,Tshepo Ntsoane on behalf of the SRRIC
Dear Piero:
The attachment (below) will appear in the IXAS web (http://www.ixasportal.net/ixas/) as a news article. I wish I could have attended but my schedule does not allow me to leave.
I would like to thank Herman about his support on the IXAS. He kindly gave a special message to us when we started the web magazine. http://www.ixasportal.net/ixas/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=147&Itemid=289
He is also an honorary member of the new organization "Facility Links" which will link the facility members and the XAFS users in the future.
Best regards,Hiroyuki
The attachment (below) will appear in the IXAS web (http://www.ixasportal.net/ixas/) as a news article. I wish I could have attended but my schedule does not allow me to leave.
I would like to thank Herman about his support on the IXAS. He kindly gave a special message to us when we started the web magazine. http://www.ixasportal.net/ixas/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=147&Itemid=289
He is also an honorary member of the new organization "Facility Links" which will link the facility members and the XAFS users in the future.
Best regards,Hiroyuki
From Robert Quinn, Executive Director; Clare Robinson, Senior Program Officer; and Everyone at Scholars at Risk
In our work at Scholars at Risk, we have the honor of partnering with many kind, generous individuals who are dedicated to furthering human rights and who are eager help others in need, but Herman Winick stands out for his effort to help not one or two deserving scholars but many. Herman is a devoted advocate for human rights, and we are lucky to call him an advocate for scholars-at-risk, too. His actions imply that he sees SAR as a professional priority but also as a personal one, as he always makes time to support threatened scholars who spend time at Stanford, helping them with everything from apartment hunts to connecting with colleagues in their field. Herman is there for them once they leave Stanford, too, checking in with them when they return home to their countries and reminding them that, yes, we care very much what happens to them, a message that is vital to these scholars' inspiration to continue their scholarship and their lives. It is people like Herman who make Scholars at Risk work. It is people like Herman who make the human rights movement work. It is people like Herman who make a lasting impact on the world and on so many people. Herman, we are ever grateful to you for your incredible efforts in the human rights arena and also for your kindness, generosity, friendship and warmth.
Thank you, thank you, for everything you do.
In our work at Scholars at Risk, we have the honor of partnering with many kind, generous individuals who are dedicated to furthering human rights and who are eager help others in need, but Herman Winick stands out for his effort to help not one or two deserving scholars but many. Herman is a devoted advocate for human rights, and we are lucky to call him an advocate for scholars-at-risk, too. His actions imply that he sees SAR as a professional priority but also as a personal one, as he always makes time to support threatened scholars who spend time at Stanford, helping them with everything from apartment hunts to connecting with colleagues in their field. Herman is there for them once they leave Stanford, too, checking in with them when they return home to their countries and reminding them that, yes, we care very much what happens to them, a message that is vital to these scholars' inspiration to continue their scholarship and their lives. It is people like Herman who make Scholars at Risk work. It is people like Herman who make the human rights movement work. It is people like Herman who make a lasting impact on the world and on so many people. Herman, we are ever grateful to you for your incredible efforts in the human rights arena and also for your kindness, generosity, friendship and warmth.
Thank you, thank you, for everything you do.
Dear Prof. Piero A. Pianetta
Thank you very much for your kind information. So I could send the small gift in October 1 by air mail. I talked with my friends, profs. Masami Ando,Tokyo University of Science and Shigeru Yamamoto,KEK・PF on our great esteem for Herman's contributions in Japan. I remember Herman visited SOR・RING just in operation in 1975 or 6. After that, construction of Photon Factory began at Tukuba. For us, everything was quite new and difficult. Then, Herman often visited PF having the big and heavy baggage filled with many design drawings and reports , just giving many appropriate remarks. We were temporary students of Herman's college. Sato is the eldest one.
On this occasion, we should like to say 'Thank you very much for Winick san !'.
Best regards, Shigeru Sato, Masami Ando and Shigeru Yamamoto.
Thank you very much for your kind information. So I could send the small gift in October 1 by air mail. I talked with my friends, profs. Masami Ando,Tokyo University of Science and Shigeru Yamamoto,KEK・PF on our great esteem for Herman's contributions in Japan. I remember Herman visited SOR・RING just in operation in 1975 or 6. After that, construction of Photon Factory began at Tukuba. For us, everything was quite new and difficult. Then, Herman often visited PF having the big and heavy baggage filled with many design drawings and reports , just giving many appropriate remarks. We were temporary students of Herman's college. Sato is the eldest one.
On this occasion, we should like to say 'Thank you very much for Winick san !'.
Best regards, Shigeru Sato, Masami Ando and Shigeru Yamamoto.
Dear Colleagues,
I am a colleague of Herman Winick from Istanbul. I very much wanted to attend this symposium on the occasion of Herman's 80th birthday but heavy teaching and administrative duties at the beginning of the semester prevent me from being there to participate in this special event.
As we all know Herman is not only a leading scientist but, he is also very active in human rights issues and use of science for the promotion of peace in one of the most troubled areas in the world - the Middle East. I would like to say a few words about his endeavors in the latter field. I met him in 2000, when he, together with Ercan Alp, wanted to recruit me to the SESAME project. Despite my strong prejudices against the project at the time, their energy and dedication easily convinced me to become an active member and supporter. Being a part of the SESAME team has been an invaluable experience for me both professionally and personally. I worked with Herman since 2000 and have had the privilege to witness his commitment, dedication, and tireless efforts to contribute to the SESAME project. The project has achieved a significant portion of its objectives thanks to his exemplary engagement and leadership. He has been directly instrumental in training of hundreds of scientists in the region.
Thank you Herman for the SESAME project and also for what you provided for me. I hope we will celebrate the first experimental results from SESAME together. Zehra Sayers
Director, Foundations Development Program. Sabanci University, Chair, SESAME Scientific Advisory Committee Zehra Sayers Director, Foundations Development Program Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey Chair, SESAME, Scientific Advisory Committee
I am a colleague of Herman Winick from Istanbul. I very much wanted to attend this symposium on the occasion of Herman's 80th birthday but heavy teaching and administrative duties at the beginning of the semester prevent me from being there to participate in this special event.
As we all know Herman is not only a leading scientist but, he is also very active in human rights issues and use of science for the promotion of peace in one of the most troubled areas in the world - the Middle East. I would like to say a few words about his endeavors in the latter field. I met him in 2000, when he, together with Ercan Alp, wanted to recruit me to the SESAME project. Despite my strong prejudices against the project at the time, their energy and dedication easily convinced me to become an active member and supporter. Being a part of the SESAME team has been an invaluable experience for me both professionally and personally. I worked with Herman since 2000 and have had the privilege to witness his commitment, dedication, and tireless efforts to contribute to the SESAME project. The project has achieved a significant portion of its objectives thanks to his exemplary engagement and leadership. He has been directly instrumental in training of hundreds of scientists in the region.
Thank you Herman for the SESAME project and also for what you provided for me. I hope we will celebrate the first experimental results from SESAME together. Zehra Sayers
Director, Foundations Development Program. Sabanci University, Chair, SESAME Scientific Advisory Committee Zehra Sayers Director, Foundations Development Program Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey Chair, SESAME, Scientific Advisory Committee
Dear Herman,
To my great regret I shall not be able to attend the Symposium in honor of your 80th birthday. But let me send you in this way my whole-hearted wishes for this special day and for a pleasant symposium where you will meet many old friends.
We have to congratulate you for your great contributions to the development of synchrotron radiation instrumentation; not only at SLAC but in the whole field and you can be proud of it.
I enjoyed particularly our cooperation at SESAME, a project where you have left your deep footprints. I appreciated always your calm and efficient arguments aiming at promoting science taking into account human aspects at the same time.
Apart from your special field, you also spent so much effort on improving international collaboration in general, in particular in the framework of APS. We all have to be grateful to you for all these achievements.
With my best wishes for your good health for many years to come and together with your lovely wife Yours
Herwig Schopper Former Director-General CERN and Chairman of SESAME Council
To my great regret I shall not be able to attend the Symposium in honor of your 80th birthday. But let me send you in this way my whole-hearted wishes for this special day and for a pleasant symposium where you will meet many old friends.
We have to congratulate you for your great contributions to the development of synchrotron radiation instrumentation; not only at SLAC but in the whole field and you can be proud of it.
I enjoyed particularly our cooperation at SESAME, a project where you have left your deep footprints. I appreciated always your calm and efficient arguments aiming at promoting science taking into account human aspects at the same time.
Apart from your special field, you also spent so much effort on improving international collaboration in general, in particular in the framework of APS. We all have to be grateful to you for all these achievements.
With my best wishes for your good health for many years to come and together with your lovely wife Yours
Herwig Schopper Former Director-General CERN and Chairman of SESAME Council
From Hamed Tarawneh, Former Scientist at SESAME
On the occasion of your 80th birthday, I convey to you and your family my best wishes for a prolonged, happy and healthy life. I remember when we first met in Amman, Jordan at the first SESAME Workshop on Sept. 2000 which was dedicated to the selection of young physicists and engineers from the Middle Eastern countries for training. Afterward they became the core team for building the SESAME Light Source. I was among the ones selected from Jordan and from you and Prof. G. A. Voss, I learned what an accelerator is and for that I owe you a lot.
In my opinion, your belief in science and most importantly, your belief in bringing people together despite their differences to set up the Science For Peace project in the Middle East, the SESAME Project. It is truly noble and such vision, and your contributions, will never be forgotten.
On the occasion of your 80th birthday, I convey to you and your family my best wishes for a prolonged, happy and healthy life. I remember when we first met in Amman, Jordan at the first SESAME Workshop on Sept. 2000 which was dedicated to the selection of young physicists and engineers from the Middle Eastern countries for training. Afterward they became the core team for building the SESAME Light Source. I was among the ones selected from Jordan and from you and Prof. G. A. Voss, I learned what an accelerator is and for that I owe you a lot.
In my opinion, your belief in science and most importantly, your belief in bringing people together despite their differences to set up the Science For Peace project in the Middle East, the SESAME Project. It is truly noble and such vision, and your contributions, will never be forgotten.
Gil Travish
Thank you for the invitation and for organizing this great event. I had hoped to attend, but I don't think I will be able to. Still, I want to share a few words:
Beginning in 1992, a series of meeting were held at SSRL, organized by Herman, to study this idea of using the SLAC linac to drive an x-ray FEL. Seated around the small conference room on any given meeting was a whose-who of accelerators and free electron lasers. The monthly meetings were superbly organized, generally well attended and documented thanks to Herman's persistence and the enthusiasm of all the participants. I was a new graduate student in those days. Flying up with Claudio to attending the meetings. There was often a ritual: arrive in one of the local airports, drive to Menlo Park, and despite on occasion being late, stop a Peet's coffee. Claudio insisted that the day had to start properly. We would then rush off to SSRL and apologize for our lateness, travel and traffic conditions being our excuse. I assume that Herman was wise to what had transpired due to intuition or at least due to the paper cups and milk foam mustaches.
Late or not, imagine my delight at meeting the gods of the FEL world each month. I had no idea what would become of this project, but I knew we were doing great stuff. Herman said so in his notes often!
I believe it was in 1994 when we had a first "User Workshop". Herman had gathered various users from all over and we were going to dazzle them with our device's capabilities. It was a total disaster. They didn't care about the water window (the fact that now they want the water window is some vindication, but did little for the crushing blow I felt at the time). Herman wasn't phased. No water window? 1A. No problem. We just needed more meetings and more experts. Herman got everyone to show up, share their knowledge and ideas, and kept pushing forward until, well, the LCLS was an inevitability. The LCLS wasn't invented, designed and built; it was willed into existence and shoved up steep hills of adversity, seemingly insurmountable technical and bureaucratic barriers, and past hordes of naysayers by Herman. At least that's the way it looked to a green graduate student drinking Peet's coffee around a table full of all the world's FEL experts volunteering their time at Herman's request.
Thank you for the invitation and for organizing this great event. I had hoped to attend, but I don't think I will be able to. Still, I want to share a few words:
Beginning in 1992, a series of meeting were held at SSRL, organized by Herman, to study this idea of using the SLAC linac to drive an x-ray FEL. Seated around the small conference room on any given meeting was a whose-who of accelerators and free electron lasers. The monthly meetings were superbly organized, generally well attended and documented thanks to Herman's persistence and the enthusiasm of all the participants. I was a new graduate student in those days. Flying up with Claudio to attending the meetings. There was often a ritual: arrive in one of the local airports, drive to Menlo Park, and despite on occasion being late, stop a Peet's coffee. Claudio insisted that the day had to start properly. We would then rush off to SSRL and apologize for our lateness, travel and traffic conditions being our excuse. I assume that Herman was wise to what had transpired due to intuition or at least due to the paper cups and milk foam mustaches.
Late or not, imagine my delight at meeting the gods of the FEL world each month. I had no idea what would become of this project, but I knew we were doing great stuff. Herman said so in his notes often!
I believe it was in 1994 when we had a first "User Workshop". Herman had gathered various users from all over and we were going to dazzle them with our device's capabilities. It was a total disaster. They didn't care about the water window (the fact that now they want the water window is some vindication, but did little for the crushing blow I felt at the time). Herman wasn't phased. No water window? 1A. No problem. We just needed more meetings and more experts. Herman got everyone to show up, share their knowledge and ideas, and kept pushing forward until, well, the LCLS was an inevitability. The LCLS wasn't invented, designed and built; it was willed into existence and shoved up steep hills of adversity, seemingly insurmountable technical and bureaucratic barriers, and past hordes of naysayers by Herman. At least that's the way it looked to a green graduate student drinking Peet's coffee around a table full of all the world's FEL experts volunteering their time at Herman's request.
Dear Piero,
I am so pleased to hear that a Symposium to honor Herman Winick will be held on his 80th birthday. Herman is a very unique Scientist in my career. How can I forget his help and support. As you know, you and Herman has provided me an opportunity to work at SSRL with the support of SESAME Project. I have published following 6 articles based on this work.
I would like to attend the Symposium, as a speaker to talk about my following scientific results which are published with Herman's support or only talk about Herman Winick or both of them.
In this stage; I would let you know that, I have difficulties to find out financial support for attending this activity. I will be very glad if you guide me to overcome this problem by applying SSRL for a short beam time or apply to SESAME Project ... or any other possibility.
With my best regards Yuksel Ufuktepe
I am so pleased to hear that a Symposium to honor Herman Winick will be held on his 80th birthday. Herman is a very unique Scientist in my career. How can I forget his help and support. As you know, you and Herman has provided me an opportunity to work at SSRL with the support of SESAME Project. I have published following 6 articles based on this work.
I would like to attend the Symposium, as a speaker to talk about my following scientific results which are published with Herman's support or only talk about Herman Winick or both of them.
In this stage; I would let you know that, I have difficulties to find out financial support for attending this activity. I will be very glad if you guide me to overcome this problem by applying SSRL for a short beam time or apply to SESAME Project ... or any other possibility.
With my best regards Yuksel Ufuktepe
I would very much like to be present at this symposium but various personal things make it very hard. If you will permit me I would like to send a letter of greeting to Herman for the symposium mentioning Herman's interest before he went to Stanford and my personal delight that he was able to carry out these ideas with little delay at Stanford.
Dick Wilson
Dick Wilson
Dear Piero,
Unfortunately I have previous obligations for the date of the Symposium and will not be able to come. However, could you pass the following message to Herman during the symposium:
Dear Herman,
Although not able to be here in person, I am thinking about you on this occasion. You were very important during our first attempts to create a protein crystallography beamline at SSRP and your involvement in many aspects of the operation of the ring was always appreciated. I also followed up on your later achievements, especially your efforts to promote international collaboration through SESAME, as well as your other efforts on behalf of individual persecuted scientists. The award of the Sakharov Prize to you was truly deserved.
Happy Birthday, Herman! Alex Wlodawer
Unfortunately I have previous obligations for the date of the Symposium and will not be able to come. However, could you pass the following message to Herman during the symposium:
Dear Herman,
Although not able to be here in person, I am thinking about you on this occasion. You were very important during our first attempts to create a protein crystallography beamline at SSRP and your involvement in many aspects of the operation of the ring was always appreciated. I also followed up on your later achievements, especially your efforts to promote international collaboration through SESAME, as well as your other efforts on behalf of individual persecuted scientists. The award of the Sakharov Prize to you was truly deserved.
Happy Birthday, Herman! Alex Wlodawer
Comment: In 1965, at straight section 11 of Cambridge Electron Accelerator, Herman deteriorated the vacuum to produce bremsstrahlung photons useful for a doubly converted beam. This enabled an experiment we did together (with Jim Walker) to measure the total electron-positron pair production cross section from carbon,to 2%, the best at the time. This was my first experiment with photons, still my favorite particle to this day. Great fun, and tremendous spirit!
--Mervyn Wong, graduate student at CEA.
--Mervyn Wong, graduate student at CEA.
Dear Dr. Pianetta Piero A.:
Thank you for the announcement of the symposium to honor Herman's 80 Birthday, and pls kindly pass my best wishes to the man who have contributed so hugely to the development of the synchrotron radiation application and the development of free electron radiation.
Dingchang Xian BSRF, Beijing, China
Thank you for the announcement of the symposium to honor Herman's 80 Birthday, and pls kindly pass my best wishes to the man who have contributed so hugely to the development of the synchrotron radiation application and the development of free electron radiation.
Dingchang Xian BSRF, Beijing, China
DEAR PROF. WINICK, ON BEHALF OF ELETTRA/SYNCHROTRONE TRIESTE MANAGEMENT AND STAFF OF LABORATORY PLEASE ACCEPT OUR BEST
WISHES OF HAPPY BIRTHDAY AND OUR THANKS FOR YOUR MANY EXCITING CONTRIBUTION TO SYNCHROTRONE, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. ALFONSO FRANCIOSI
Dear Piero,
Thank you for the invitation to attend Herman's 80th birthday symposium. Unfortunately I shall not be able to attend the symposium but please convey to him my deep appreciation for his scientific and humanitarian contributions. People like Herman represent a beacon of light for our troubled world.
Sincerely yours, Yizhak Yacoby.
Thank you for the invitation to attend Herman's 80th birthday symposium. Unfortunately I shall not be able to attend the symposium but please convey to him my deep appreciation for his scientific and humanitarian contributions. People like Herman represent a beacon of light for our troubled world.
Sincerely yours, Yizhak Yacoby.
From Irving Lerch, Former Officer for International Programs at the APS
If you live long enough, something momentous will happen. For most of us this means that we bear passive witness to the events that engulf us. For a very few, it is an opportunity to embrace the moment and actively to contribute to history.
Herman Winick has never been a passive witness—neither in his professional, scientific life nor in the broader realm of international collaboration and social justice.
In 1997 when he convinced his friend and colleague, Gus Voss, to champion the exploitation of the soon-to-be-junked BESSY I synchrotron as an international research facility, he was not suggesting that an antiquated instrument be foisted on the hapless scientists of a region in turmoil and conflict. Rather, he saw the opportunity to build a world-class laboratory that would be home to the ambitions, curiosity, talents and industry of a community—giving them a means to participate in the world scientific enterprise on a par with their European and Asian colleagues.
And rather than embrace the brilliance and vision he proffered, he was met with skepticism and resistance. Boldness often confronts timidity and uncertainty and for any singular vision to prevail, it requires persistence, even stubbornness, endurance, energy and eloquence—all of which Herman has demonstrated in abundance these past 15 years. He undermined the resistance of his colleagues in the physics community, first assuring the support of UNESCO and, ultimately, the governing councils of international science, disparate governments and funders.
What an amazing accomplishment!
But of course this is only a fragment of what Herman has done and continues to do. His prodigious energies in support of repressed and endangered scientists are well-known and documented. And in this endeavor, too, he doesn't give up or hesitate or wait. He has been tireless and devoted, pushing his community and others to come to the aid of those whose only sin is to express their conscience. I have watched with amazement as he has taken on mission after mission, expending time and energy and money to help, to comfort and intervene whenever and wherever he saw the need.
Bravo, Herman!
If you live long enough, something momentous will happen. For most of us this means that we bear passive witness to the events that engulf us. For a very few, it is an opportunity to embrace the moment and actively to contribute to history.
Herman Winick has never been a passive witness—neither in his professional, scientific life nor in the broader realm of international collaboration and social justice.
In 1997 when he convinced his friend and colleague, Gus Voss, to champion the exploitation of the soon-to-be-junked BESSY I synchrotron as an international research facility, he was not suggesting that an antiquated instrument be foisted on the hapless scientists of a region in turmoil and conflict. Rather, he saw the opportunity to build a world-class laboratory that would be home to the ambitions, curiosity, talents and industry of a community—giving them a means to participate in the world scientific enterprise on a par with their European and Asian colleagues.
And rather than embrace the brilliance and vision he proffered, he was met with skepticism and resistance. Boldness often confronts timidity and uncertainty and for any singular vision to prevail, it requires persistence, even stubbornness, endurance, energy and eloquence—all of which Herman has demonstrated in abundance these past 15 years. He undermined the resistance of his colleagues in the physics community, first assuring the support of UNESCO and, ultimately, the governing councils of international science, disparate governments and funders.
What an amazing accomplishment!
But of course this is only a fragment of what Herman has done and continues to do. His prodigious energies in support of repressed and endangered scientists are well-known and documented. And in this endeavor, too, he doesn't give up or hesitate or wait. He has been tireless and devoted, pushing his community and others to come to the aid of those whose only sin is to express their conscience. I have watched with amazement as he has taken on mission after mission, expending time and energy and money to help, to comfort and intervene whenever and wherever he saw the need.
Bravo, Herman!
Dear Prof. Pianetta,
I am delighted to learn that a symposium will be held at SLAC on October 2 to honor Herman Winick on his 80th birthday. Such recognition is a fine tribute to Prof Winick from his colleagues at Stanford and a great occasion to celebrate his remarkable accomplishments. I would like to join our Synchrotron Radiation community to extend our warm congratulations and best wishes on behalf of SINAP (Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics) and SSRF (Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility).
We are greatly indebted to Prof.Winick for his guidance and support in the development of SSRF. He has been on the committee panel and chaired our SSRF international review meetings from 1996 to 2009, and has helped nurturing many of our young scientists and engineers in the past decade. He helped SSRF to succeed from design to user operation. Well, if there is anything that SSRF feels proud of, Prof Winick certainly has a part in it. His commitment and devotion to scientific research and facility development have always been a great source of inspiration to our SSRF colleagues.
This event is a reward that Prof.Winick richly deserves for his many years of splendid service to this profession. I wish I could be there to personally wish him happy 80th birthday, but my schedule conflict has prevented me from doing so. I entrusted Dr.Tiqiao Xiao, assistant director of SINAP and vice director of SSRF, to attend this symposium and send our congratulations to Herman Winick on behalf SINAP and SSRF.
I wish the symposium a great success and I wish Prof. Winick all the happiness and joy.
With my best Regards, Zhentang Zhao
Director, SINAP & SSRF
I am delighted to learn that a symposium will be held at SLAC on October 2 to honor Herman Winick on his 80th birthday. Such recognition is a fine tribute to Prof Winick from his colleagues at Stanford and a great occasion to celebrate his remarkable accomplishments. I would like to join our Synchrotron Radiation community to extend our warm congratulations and best wishes on behalf of SINAP (Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics) and SSRF (Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility).
We are greatly indebted to Prof.Winick for his guidance and support in the development of SSRF. He has been on the committee panel and chaired our SSRF international review meetings from 1996 to 2009, and has helped nurturing many of our young scientists and engineers in the past decade. He helped SSRF to succeed from design to user operation. Well, if there is anything that SSRF feels proud of, Prof Winick certainly has a part in it. His commitment and devotion to scientific research and facility development have always been a great source of inspiration to our SSRF colleagues.
This event is a reward that Prof.Winick richly deserves for his many years of splendid service to this profession. I wish I could be there to personally wish him happy 80th birthday, but my schedule conflict has prevented me from doing so. I entrusted Dr.Tiqiao Xiao, assistant director of SINAP and vice director of SSRF, to attend this symposium and send our congratulations to Herman Winick on behalf SINAP and SSRF.
I wish the symposium a great success and I wish Prof. Winick all the happiness and joy.
With my best Regards, Zhentang Zhao
Director, SINAP & SSRF
Dear Herman,
Happy Birthday!
Have a great day and all the best for the next decade.
And thanks for your friendship for such a long and productive time. I still remember well the meeting we had in January 1986 in my office in Hamburg. I had just started my term as Head of Hasylab, and we brainstormed together what to do with Doris, and how to install more insertion devices. The Bypass project was born which gave DORIS another 20 years of successful operation for synchrotron radiation.
. Then in 1992 you came to give a talk in Hamburg and told me in the S-Bahn about Claudio's idea to use the SLAC linac and build LCLS: 10E11 Photon/100fs pulse. I was very excited and came 1993/94 for a Sabbatical to Stanford, joint your accelerator meetings about XFELs and became soon convinced that it really was feasible. The rest is history- and now reality and it finally works even better than we hoped!
Of course let's not forget our joint membership in the Spring-8 International Advisory Committee - the first of its kind in Japan- from 1990 to 1997 - and many more joint international adventures.
Most of all: I like to thank you and Renee for your wonderful and warm hospitality whenever I have been in Stanford.
All the best and take care!
Sincerely yours, Gerd Materlik
Happy Birthday!
Have a great day and all the best for the next decade.
And thanks for your friendship for such a long and productive time. I still remember well the meeting we had in January 1986 in my office in Hamburg. I had just started my term as Head of Hasylab, and we brainstormed together what to do with Doris, and how to install more insertion devices. The Bypass project was born which gave DORIS another 20 years of successful operation for synchrotron radiation. . Then in 1992 you came to give a talk in Hamburg and told me in the S-Bahn about Claudio's idea to use the SLAC linac and build LCLS: 10E11 Photon/100fs pulse. I was very excited and came 1993/94 for a Sabbatical to Stanford, joint your accelerator meetings about XFELs and became soon convinced that it really was feasible. The rest is history- and now reality and it finally works even better than we hoped!
Of course let's not forget our joint membership in the Spring-8 International Advisory Committee - the first of its kind in Japan- from 1990 to 1997 - and many more joint international adventures.
Most of all: I like to thank you and Renee for your wonderful and warm hospitality whenever I have been in Stanford.
All the best and take care!
Sincerely yours, Gerd Materlik
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA
Operated by Stanford University for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science