Professor Tejinder (Jim) Virdee has been knighted in Queen Elizabeth's Birthday Honours list and now becomes Sir Tejinder Virdee. User Group Meeting Speaker Sir Tejinder has been instrumental in designing the experiment that found the Higgs boson.
The United Kingdom honours system recognises people who have made achievements in public life and committed themselves to serving and helping Britain. They will usually have made life better for other people or be outstanding at what they do.
It was our privilege to spend some time with Professor Tejinder Virdee. Tejinder shared his enthusiasm for the work at CERN and stretched our knowledge with his presentation on Exploring the Universe Moments after the Big Bang at the Coprocess UGM 2014.
"Prof Virdee developed new technologies within the detector that ultimately allowed it to find the Higgs - the mechanism which explains how sub-atomic particles came to have substance, or mass"
- courtesy of the BBC website
Congratulations to Sir Jim from all at Coprocess!
