Peter Kalmus
| Peter I P Kalmus, OBE | |
|---|---|
| Born |
25 January 1933 Prague, Czechoslovakia |
| Nationality | British |
| Fields | Physics/Particle Physics |
| Notable awards | Rutherford Medal and Prize (1988), Kelvin Prize (2002) |
Peter Ignaz Paul Kalmus, OBE, Hon FInstP is a noted British particle physicist.
Born in Prague on 25 January 1933, he moved to Britain with his parents and younger brother George Kalmus in 1939. His sister Elsa was born in 1945. The family became British Citizens in 1946.
Kalmus is currently Emeritus Professor of Physics at Queen Mary, University of London.
Kalmus went to school first in London and then in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. From 1943 till 1951 he was at St Albans County Grammar School (later renamed Verulam School). He received his BSc (1954) and PhD (1957) at University College London where he remained for a further three years as a Research Associate. He is now an Honorary Fellow of University College London.
Among a number of notable achievements in his career, the Queen Mary, University of London group led by Peter Kalmus in conjunction with the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory group led by Alan Astbury and the Birmingham University group led by John Dowell joined Carlo Rubbia at CERN in an international collaboration known as UA1.
They built a large universal detector, aimed at investigating phenomena at the world's highest energy collisions, which were obtained from 1981 onwards, when the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron was converted into a proton-antiproton collider, as suggested by Rubbia, using the stochastic beam cooling technique devised by Simon van der Meer. The UK groups had joint responsibility for designing, constructing and operating a large hadron calorimeter and also a trigger processor.
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