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Bjørn Wiik

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204:. Wiik and his team soon observed and reported a type of event never described before: three particle-jets whose momenta lay in a plane. These results, widely believed to represent the after-effects of two quarks plus a gluon, were soon confirmed by many other groups. In 1995, the 259:"for his contributions to the realization of the large electron-proton colliding beam facility, HERA, at the Deutsches Electron Synschotron Laboratory in Hamburg, West Germany" 532: 552: 486: 239:). Wiik was also responsible for proposing and overseeing the implementation of a superconducting linear accelerator for Tera-electronvolt energies, TESLA. 451: 254: 547: 192:
In 1978, Wiik and his collaborators began using DESY's newly commissioned PETRA electron–positron storage ring to look for hard-gluon
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Already during his stay at SLAC, Wiik had proposed a new type of particle accelerator, which would be based on colliding a beam of
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physicist, notable for his role in the experiment that produced the first experimental evidence for
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events that would provide experimental support for the existence and role of gluons in mediating
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awarded its Prize for High Energy and Particle Physics to four physicists representing the
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Wiik died on 26 February 1999 in Appel at the age of 62 due to "an accident at home".
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and for his influential role on later accelerator projects. Wiik was director of
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via a British submarine, due to his father being a leader of the
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where, four years later, he was appointed lead scientist.
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Bjørn Wiik was born in Bruvik on 17 February 1937. During
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Bruvik
Norway
Appel, Germany
Particle physics
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
DESY
Bruvik
Norway
Appel, Germany
elementary particle
gluons
DESY
Hamburg
Germany
World War II
England
Norwegian resistance movement
Bergen
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Menlo Park, California
DESY
Hamburg
bremsstrahlung
strong interactions
quarks
European Physical Society
TASSO collaboration
Paul Söding
Günter Wolf

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